Help with 5 year olds room -paint, wallpaper, overall design and theme
9 years ago
We are moving house and we have the chance to do a whole new room for our eldest daughter... Please find attached two pics of the room as it currently is... I'm thinking a feature wall along the back wall? We want wood floors with rugs as my daughter suffers with asthma so we don't want carpets... Otherwise its a blank canvass... My daughter says rainbows, butterflies, princesses and fairies.... I want something that will look fab now but also in a few years when she gets a bit bigger... My imagination is struggling as we are renovating the whole house!!!! Its a big room (back wall 3980mm side wall 3320mm and window is 1690mm) She also loves the idea of a dressing table in the middle of the wardrobes... she is 5!!!! anyway ideas please ....
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9 years agoHow about something like this: http://www.wallpaperdirect.com/products/albany/mazarine/99571
It's got the butterflies she wants and lots of colours you can pick out to use in the room, it's not babyish so should last.
PRO9 years agoI'm generally not a fan of feature walls unless you're actually making a feature of something. I suggest painting all walls an off white or soft pastel colour in a durable finish then use wall/decals stickers to decorate. They look great and she can have all the rainbows and butterflies she wants for quite a low cost, and they easily peel off when she outgrows them or fancies a change. You can get some lovely ones from Etsy (see below - all images from Etsy). Once she's older the pastel walls provide a perfect background for a cool Scandi look.
- 9 years agoHi. I would probably keep the decor fairly neutral with a slight french feel, either a chalk pink or duck egg on the walls which will go with anything. Add furniture in white wood which will grow with her. On the feature wall maybe these fairy stickers from not on the high street. A bedroom chair would be fab given the size of the room, this is from alison at home and is only £125 on sale at the moment. I'd get a chandelier pendant light. Add fairy lights either to the bed or curtain pole. I'd try white black out blinds or striped fabric and either a plain pink, duck egg or white curtain (for decorative use) or something like this from vertbaudet. This rug is from nubie and is washable so may be good for her asthma. You'll need to lower her dressing table (so cute she wants one!), I'd add some 3d butterfly art to make it look pretty for her, these are from Amazon. Maybe some pale pink and white gingham bed linen (if having duck egg walls) and then add fun bits with a fairy/princess table lamp and cushions. Finally maybe some flower fairy art on the walls? This is from flower-fairies-pictures.
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- 9 years agothankyou all... I have been putting some ideas together with her, see attached picture... I know they don't all match one another but you get her ideas... She is adamant she wants the stripey wall paper... I can not work out which wall this is best to go on and also which wall her white metal framed bed with a canopy above it is to go against?... I was also thinking another bed canopy in a corner making a bit or a stage area ... ideally I was thinking of curtains a bed canopy and a stage area all in the same fabric but Im not sure where I would start with this idea... perhaps something like the pictured ready done one may work... I love the idea of duckegg on the other walls and keeping wardrobes white (perhaps with some decals) and the really pretty mirror... maybe its worth making the area in the middle of the wardrobes/around the mirror a different colour or wallpapered?
- 9 years agounless maybe I could get away with stripey fabric/curtains/drapes instead of the wallpaper?! Also she likes the tree decals but I don't feel these fit really... I have this great fairy princess kingdom map which will be framed and put on her wall too...
PRO9 years agolast modified: 9 years agoWe just decorated my 7 year old's room, we did the walls white apart from behind the bed which we painted a bright aqua and used bronze star wall stickers to add some sparkle! She has some pink & purple accessories (including butterflies), but they will be easily updated as she gets older.
She loves it!
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- 9 years agoactually we have a very pretty play tent which I haven't thought about where it will go in the new house but this could maybe go in Beatrices room and I could tie in the fabric gingham roof with the canopy and curtains? changing the overall theme a lot but I think she would be very happy to change things if she gets the tent in her room.. currently in a play room which all 3 share... may even be able to persuade her to get rid of stripey wall paper and perhaps have framed pictures of rainbows, rainbow cushions etc
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