Creating a room design with your own hands that will appeal to the little owner of the nursery is not an easy task, and if two children live in the same room at once, and even of different sexes, it becomes even more complicated. Even if the relationship between brother and sister is warm, all the same, their hobbies probably differ in at least something, in addition, it is necessary to stimulate the development of male hobbies and qualities in the boy, and in the girl - female. When planning to start a practical solution to the issue, be sure to study the theoretical part. Wallpaper in the nursery for children of different sexes should be chosen as carefully as possible.
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The difficulty of creating a common interior is not to match the interests of a boy or a girl, but to do it in parallel, so that the overall result looks normal, and the room itself remains integral. A modern assortment of wallpapers will allow you to get out of any situation, but you need to have a clear idea of what exactly you need to look for. And you need to look for something like the following:
- Safe wallpapers. The primary requirement for finishing the room is safety (regardless of the number of children living in the nursery and their gender). Manufacturers today try to avoid harmful materials in the production of coatings for living quarters, but in the case of children, the requirements are special, because they love to pull everything into their mouths. It is wiser to choose not just natural materials, but also the simplest ones - paper or non-woven.
- Short-lived repair. It's no secret that children (especially young ones) have a tangible craving for destruction. In this regard, many parents are looking for something really durable, so that the repairs made can withstand all the onslaught of children's curiosity - and in vain.
The fact is that not a single wallpaper will stand the test of two children for many years, and you also need to remember that kids grow up, their hobbies change. It is easier to choose the same paper or non-woven wallpaper that is inexpensive and safe, and just change it as it wears out for a more relevant one.
- Compliance with interests. If you appreciate the fact that you are lucky to have both a son and a daughter at once, but it is not yet possible to settle them in separate rooms, remember that your kids are of different genders. Even if one of the children is several years older than the second, the younger must not be allowed to grow up in the shadow of the older.
Sleeping places should clearly correspond to the interests of children - do not even try to get off with some general neutral option, this is very rare.
At the same time, carefully monitor the selection of colors - they should be normally combined with each other. Common parts of the room (for example, the play area) are often finished with a third type of wallpaper. Do not forget about age as well - children's wallpapers are not suitable for teenagers, and vice versa.
Even strict adherence to all of the above will not be the only salvation, but it will significantly reduce the number of possible options, simplify the choice. In any case, you should prepare for the fact that you will have to buy wallpapers of different colors.
Color solutions
Parents should be warned that the well-known stereotype "blue for a boy, pink for a girl" is best avoided. The fact is that blue is a rather cold color, not comfortable enough for a child's room, while pink is actually not so much liked by girls, and a boy (especially at a transitional age) will cause poorly hidden irritation.
When choosing color solutions, preference is given to soft pastel colors. On the one hand, they should not interfere with rest, on the other, they do not want to be dull, because children dream of living in a beautiful fairy tale. However, this all concerns only the "personal" spaces of each individual child in their common room, while the working area (regardless of age) should be designed in slightly more strict colors.
The play area of the preschoolers' room is simply unthinkable without bright colors. In order not to plan a too colorful combination of three or four types of wallpaper, pay attention to the fashion trend of recent years - designers are increasingly advising to abandon accents in the wallpaper itself in favor of accents on various accessories.
If we talk about specific color combinations of wallpaper, then duets of light pink with gray, lemon with blue or gray with purple are especially popular in our time. It is not at all necessary to zone the room with the help of two colors - they can be scattered throughout the room in a certain order (but preferably - in approximately equal proportions, without monochrome spots), then the division into zones will occur thanks to accessories. In general, a room can be much brighter and more colorful.
The maximum brightness will remain especially for the playing area. It can be called something else, but its meaning is that both children use it equally. Here they meet, communicate, play, study. The presence of individual sleeping areas, as it were, separates the kids, so the play area should unite them - after all, they are neighbors in the fullest sense of the word.
Room zoning idea
The overall perception of the room as a whole is a very important aspect, but it is still a little more interesting for an adult visitor, while children are less inclined to pay attention to such things. For kids, it is much more important how their part of the room looks like, how much it is adapted to their immediate needs.
Sometimes you can slightly violate the integrity of the image of the entire room in favor of unusual solutions for the child - if this does not distinguish one in any way. For this reason, it is always worth starting from the design of the sleeping place for each of the children.
The task of parents is to try their best and find any interest that would be common to both. In the case of young children, this issue is solved quite easily - you just need to pay attention to what kind of cartoon the children like to watch together, and paste photo wallpapers with the image of their favorite characters in the play area.
Boys options
When discussing options for boys, you should never forget about the age characteristics of the child. A newly born baby sleeps most of the time, this is his basic need, so there should be no hindrance to restful sleep. After all, he not only does not sleep himself, but also interferes with his sister.
For a baby boy, choose wallpaper in calm shades, such as beige, turquoise or pastel yellow; bright drawings are not needed at all. Give a preschooler an element of a fairy tale or a game, add elements of imitation of a car or spaceship cabin to his sleeping area. Boys of school age are very fond of sports, they often take this hobby with them into adulthood, so that a properly designed interior in childhood, when replacing individual accessories, easily turns into an adult.
Options for girls
Periodization options for girls in life are somewhat reminiscent of similar options for boys. At the first stage of life, there are no bright colors, only calm shades, but already more feminine: vanilla or pale pink.
Preschoolers will love beautiful bright wallpapers with flowers, butterflies. At school age, a romantic nature may want three-dimensional landscape wallpapers or all the same flowers, but monochromatic solutions are also very popular - provided there is sufficient color saturation. A large image of an idol - an actor or musician - can also act as an actual accent on the wallpaper itself.
Versatile options
If the room is very small, division into zones is possible only thanks to accessories, but for wall decoration you will have to choose extremely versatile options. They, of course, also exist, but they do not adequately reveal the individual preferences of each, and therefore are appropriate only when it is impossible to normally zone a room. In such situations, colors such as beige, orange or mint are preferred.
Much attention should be paid to the choice of wallpaper of exactly soothing shades, because it is not a fact that babies, being in constant crampedness, do not get tired of each other and do not experience stress. When discussing the choice of wallpaper pattern, it should be reminded that even a slight bias towards a boy or a girl is unacceptable - a strict balance is necessary! If you want the wallpaper to be bright and beautiful, for preschoolers, choose, for example, a colorful alphabet that will visually appeal to both, and will accelerate learning.
In a situation where at least one of the children has already reached the transitional age, zoning is best done not only with wallpaper, but also with a partition to highlight a corner for privacy. In any case - no matter how old your children are, be sure to ask how they see the interior of their common room.
Examples in the interior
Any conversations about design are meaningless if they are not supported by any visual information, because ideas about the same thing can be very different for two different people.
- The first photo shows the zoning of sleeping places with wallpaper and a partition in a large room... The premises clearly belong to children of primary or secondary school age. The parents encouraged the boy's thirst for knowledge by placing a huge map of the world over his bed. The girl's corner is more standard, but meets the needs of the baby. The color palette looks holistic, even the carpet in the foreground is perfectly matched, it also shows the brightness of the playing area and the unity of the two halves of the room.
- The second photo is interesting in that it shows the compatibility of wallpapers not just of different colors, but also different types of patterns. If half of the boy is monochromatic, then the girl has bright vertical stripes of different widths, plus accents in the form of paintings.
- The third frame is a visual example of how even the smallest rooms can be zoned.e, choosing a neutral wallpaper without reference to one of the sexes.
The original interiors of a children's room for two can be viewed in the following video.
