Creating a nursery for your new baby needn’t entail spending lots of money. With paint techniques you can make over a room with ease. Paint provides a quick and economical transformation that can be adapted or changed when your baby outgrows the dcor.

Color Schemes :

The look of your nursery will depend strongly on your color scheme. One way to choose your scheme is to take your cue from the furnishings. If you have an antique-look cot and furniture reminiscent of the traditional nursery you may want to go for fresh, pastel colors – whites, pale pinks, blues and yellows. A special quilt for baby’s bed, a picture or even a mobile may give you ideas for a color scheme. If your furnishings are modern you might opt for cheerful primary colors. Old furniture and bright colors can also go well together.

The colors you choose are probably more important for you than the baby. However, babies do have some preferences. Detail is lost on babies, so high contrast and large, bold, simple shapes are more likely to engage their attention. Even black and white would serve the purpose. Your baby will get lots of visual stimulation elsewhere and will probably spend most of his or her time in the nursery asleep, so don’t take it too seriously.

Creating Visual Interest

For your baby’s nursery, color accents, murals and borders are easy ways to add visual interest. Reusable stencils, that can even be custom-made to the desired size, are an ideal choice. Whether you want an abstract design for a border or a particular motif, the choice today is huge.

Stencils can be used on walls and furnishings and even floors in a room without carpeting. Repetition of a motif on different surfaces can help create a coordinated look. Numbers, letters of the alphabet and other friezes will provide visual interest for a nursery and will have educational value as your baby grows.

For the ambitious, murals can be wonderfully effective. A wall displaying a fairy tale scene can look fabulous, if you have the skill to pull it off. Instead of using hard-to-remove stickers or transfers, even novice artists can reproduce cartoon characters in paint as wall decorations.

Babies like things that move and change and are entranced by things as simple as the play of light. You can paint directly on to window glass with special stained glass paint, with scintillating effects.

Miscellaneous Tips

- Aim for a nursery that balances peacefulness with visual interest. If you want lots of images, pull back on bright color to keep it subtle. Less is often more.

- Adding accents can be as effective as giving all the walls a makeover. Color can be added to wooden fittings, including doors, windows, shelving and pelmets. Door and window surrounds, and picture or mirror frames, are useful places to add color to create a coordinated appearance.

- Check your paints for toxic ingredients. You can’t be too careful.

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