Children's photo wallpaper has become popular recently, but more and more parents choose such decoration for their child's room. Such wallpapers help to change the interior, set up a child for learning and the development of his creativity, which is very important for children of any age.
Subtleties of choice
There are many different types of wallpaper for a nursery and a bedroom. When making a choice among all the variety, the following nuances must be taken into account:
- gender of the child;
- his age;
- addictions and character of the child;
- parameters of the children's room (size, width, illumination, flow height, nature of the walls);
- the color scheme of the interior of the room.
When choosing wallpaper, you should carefully consider the symbols indicated on the label:
- wavy lines indicate the possibility of washing the wallpaper;
- crossed out flame - coating fire resistance;
- the hammer symbolizes impact resistance;
- drawings of a tree, a leaf of a clover, the crossed out abbreviation PVC are placed on environmentally friendly products.
Children's wallpapers for boys and girls differ in color and pattern. Children of different ages have different needs from each other, which is also reflected in the images on the walls: boys under the age of 7 prefer wallpaper with cars or animals.
Feng Shui Tips
Older children appreciate functionality in wallpaper. Therefore, it is better for a student to choose images of world maps, multiplication tables, a foreign alphabet. It is important for a child that the world around him is in harmony with his inner, with constantly changing demands, therefore, the walls of the room must be appropriate.
Recently, children's photo wallpaper has gained particular popularity, which can be used both for walls and for the ceiling and cabinet doors. These wallpapers can satisfy any customer's request.
The use of photo wallpaper for pasting cabinets allows you to make an interior item unique, update and transform it. Thanks to images from an ordinary closet, you can create a door to a mysterious garden, a portal to another world and much more that a child likes. Using photo wallpaper for the ceiling will allow you to make a dome of the sky out of the room, visually expand the room, hide the unevenness of the walls and ceiling.
When choosing photo wallpaper for a room, the following recommendations from interior designers should be taken into account:
- You cannot glue wall-paper around the perimeter of the entire room. Better to use them for pasting one wall.
- They should be in harmony with the interior of the room.
- The most environmentally friendly are paper-based, canvas or non-woven wallpaper.
- It is better to purchase or order images from specialized firms that use high-quality latex inks and produce 3D wallpapers.
According to the ancient teachings of Feng Shui, the wallpaper of a child's room and a child's bedroom should not include:
- • waterfalls, fountains - they lead to disagreements and strife in the family;
- • flowers;
- • photographs of children or deceased relatives.
The theme of loneliness should not be reflected in the children's room, it is forbidden to purchase wallpaper for the children's room, which depicts monsters, freaks, symbols of death.
A children's room is three in one: a bedroom, a play area and a place of study. According to Feng Shui, recreation and active areas must be divided using color schemes. Muted cool tones are suitable for sleeping, warm wallpaper colors are best used for the play area, green tones are suitable for the work area.
How to choose a color scheme?
Human eyes are a unique mechanism, they have an amazing ability to distinguish millions of shades, most of which are varieties of green.
The advantage of green wallpaper is that it harmonizes the atmosphere. In the palette of colors, green is located between warm shades of yellow and cold blues. A children's room, decorated with green walls, will be a good sleeping place for a child, comfortable for his first lessons. An additional benefit of shades of green is that they allow the eyes to rest.
This color promotes the development of the child's creative abilities. Green goes well with all colors, so don't be afraid to experiment with green wallpaper in your nursery.
For eye health, doctors advise to choose walls of calm colors. Pastel colors are recommended. To improve the illumination of the room, it is better to opt for white, pale blue and light green, their reflectance is 40-60%.
A deep blue color visually narrows the space of the room. White is a good backdrop for fashion accessories and furniture in the room.
The dominance of warm shades is allowed if the child is not hyperactive and not nervous, if these are muted, dull colors. Yellow, orange and red are colors that stimulate vitality in children and have an exciting effect on the optic nerve. Therefore, it is better to combine wallpaper in warm shades with green, white and light blue colors.
Canvas dimensions
The length of paper wallpaper, made of non-woven, non-woven, is most often 10.05 meters. Wallpaper with a length of 15 to 50 meters is usually used for painting.
The dimensions of the wallpaper are determined by the pattern, the theme of the artistic composition. Photowall-paper size 150x250 is convenient from the point of view of the average height of apartments in new buildings. Their size allows you to perfectly transform part of the room, one of the zones of the nursery: work, bedroom or play.
Narrow wallpaper is good to use in small children's rooms, to update interior items. They can also be used in the rooms of very young children in the form of a scale for measuring the growth of a baby; the image of picture frames is often used for the first prints of the legs and arms of babies.
Types of wallpaper
Paper
The cheapest option for creating a special atmosphere in a children's room is to use paper wallpaper.... Considering the load that they are exposed to as a result of children's games, it is necessary to choose two-layer or three-layer, dense wallpaper (from 120 grams per 1 sq. M), covered with acrylic spraying. They can be wiped clean and are less prone to fading and fading.
The advantage of these wallpapers is their environmental friendliness, they "breathe". The disadvantages include that they cannot be washed.
Currently, there is a fashion for paper wallpaper, which differ in pattern, design solution. But they are short-lived, so they are often changed. These can be posters, photographs of stars, comics.
Non-woven
In second place in terms of popularity of use and the degree of safety for a child, from the point of view of the environmental factor, non-woven photowall-paper is. But their cost is higher than paper ones. They are suitable for damp, damp areas. Their downside is that they "don't breathe." Low-quality non-woven wallpaper can give off a smell and cannot be washed. Therefore, it is better for a children's room to choose wallpaper made of vinyl on a non-woven basis.
This building material is durable compared to paper wallpaper, it does not fade in the sun and is more environmentally friendly (it emits a toxic odor only when it burns). Such wallpapers are conveniently glued, the joints between canvases are easily masked.
For a nursery, it is better to choose non-woven photowall-paper that allows you to make the interior of the room unique, have a good quality pattern.
Vinyl
They are characterized by dense texture, easy to clean. Suitable for children's rooms for future artists. Vinyl wall murals are best used next to the child's interactive space, where he is engaged in creativity.
Natural
They are made on the basis of fabric, plant materials (bamboo, nettle, wood, rattan, etc.), rice paper. They are distinguished by high environmental friendliness and durability. It is difficult to find them for a child's room from the standpoint of the color scheme, originality of the drawing, design. Other disadvantages are that they are difficult to wash and paste over the interior.
Self-adhesive
This building material is suitable for gluing small surfaces, usually pieces of furniture. Allows you to quickly update the interior by changing the color accents. Teenagers can take part in the gluing of such wallpapers themselves. This will increase the child's self-esteem and bring his creativity to the interior of the room.
You can also use self-adhesive photo wallpaper for fragmentary pasting of painted walls with butterflies, animals, various characters from fairy tales and comics.
3D
Photo wallpapers with 3D effect are especially popular among teenagers. A panoramic image is applied on this wallpaper, which visually expands the space. They can be both for walls and ceilings. Due to the saturation of the image, you do not need to paste over more than two walls in the room with them. Otherwise, the child will get tired of visual fatigue.
It is recommended that the choice of wallpaper be done together with the child so that he can feel like a designer and a real master of his room.
Popular plots and designs
Wallpaper themes for the smallest children under the age of 5 are usually associated with the world of soft toys, fairies, characters from old and new good fairy tales, children's cartoons such as Disney characters and other cartoons: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tom and Jerry ”,“ Masha and the Bear ”,“ Smeshariki ”.
For boy
Boys aged 3 to 11 years old will be interested in wallpapers with the image of expensive cars and cartoon characters (Audi, Ferrari, "Transformers", "Monsters Inc.", "Cars"), technology (airplanes, tanks, bicycles), symbols of the world of adventure ( pirate ships, binoculars, "Jake and the Neverland Pirates", jungle, space, dinosaurs, horses). Children of this age dream of distant countries and lost worlds, of speed and discoveries, therefore, wallpapers must meet these needs of children.
For girl
Girls from 5 to 11 years old are big dreamers, they play with dolls and are waiting for their princes. Wallpaper prints for girls should reflect the dreams of their owner. These can be cartoon characters ("Frozen", "Alice in Wonderland", "Fairy Forest", "Winx Club: Fairy School" and others), as well as the image of cute cats and dogs, including from the cartoon "Paw Patrol ", Princesses, magic rainbow.
To the room for children of different sexes
Options for children of different sexes should take into account the tastes and passions of the two children, regardless of age. For this case, wallpapers with images of minions, geographical maps, houses and trees are suitable, in the crown of which you can place shelves with useful household items for children. Wallpaper with bears, marine themes, traffic rules, characters from the cartoon "Winnie the Pooh" will do. Wall murals with photographs of children or photographs taken by children will look original.
For teenagers
For a young man
For the room of a teenage boy, the wallpaper that he chooses is suitable. It can be 3D wallpapers, wallpapers with characters from "Star Wars", "Spiderman", "Batman", with objects of hobby (sports, music, technology, travel). Wallpaper can be made in graffiti style or in the form of newspapers.
For a girl
Girls dream in dreams and in reality. Therefore, the interior of their room is a reflection of their dreams, their search for an image, ideas about themselves, the expectation of meeting with beauty. Wallpapers can be depicting castles, the most romantic cities in the world: Venice, Paris, London, Rome.
The city theme is versatile, suitable for teenagers regardless of gender, but still sounds different for girls and boys. Boys are interested in the functionality inherent in the urban environment, while girls are interested in the countryside.
Universal option
If heterosexual teenagers live in the children's room, then it is better to divide their space using a color scheme, and using posters, photo wallpaper, you can highlight the space of each.
Top manufacturers
Popular children's wallpapers are produced in countries where high quality building materials and design play a special role. Therefore, among the best manufacturers of children's wallpaper are American, European (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Holland) and Oriental manufacturers (Korea and China).
The advantage of the wallpaper made in Germany is the quality of the raw materials used, the fastness of colors, an interesting design that meets the tastes of both the smallest consumers and their parents. The most famous manufacturers are Decor Deluxe, Rasch, Marburg, A.S. Creation, Paravox, Komar and others.
It is especially worth noting the Komar photo wallpapers: they differ in a wide variety of canvas sizes, interesting design finds that will be of interest to everyone: from the smallest children to teenagers.
American wallpapers are more suitable for teenagers and active youth because of the rich colors and mixing of style in some collections (Fresco, Nextwall, Wallquest, Tiffany Design, Living Style, etc.).
Wallpapers from UK manufacturers are distinguished by the severity of the plots, classic themes. In the wallpaper of Italy, there is more the theme of animal and plant worlds. Wallpaper produced by French manufacturers contains both historical plots and develops the theme of fashion history, which is interesting for young dreamers.
Wallpapers from Chinese manufacturers are distinguished by a combination of oriental traditions and advanced technologies. The theme of wallpaper is distinguished by the use of plots from both ancient and modern cultures; comic book characters are actively used.
In the collections of Japanese manufacturers there is minimalism and oriental philosophy, even Kitty smiles mysteriously in an oriental way.
Beautiful examples in the interior
There are many bright and interesting interiors for children's rooms.
The interior of the girl's nursery can be diversified with wallpaper depicting a blossoming sakura, on the branches of which there can be houses for birds, birds, a relief image of flowers made from stickers. To create a three-dimensional image, it is better to place such a tree on top of a two-color wallpaper above a sleeping place or above a desk. This will give the impression that the room is in a blooming garden.
The baby's room, regardless of gender, can be additionally decorated with photo wallpapers with 3D effect, which depict various animals or characters from fairy tales. The movements of animals and characters should be dynamic, then the room will be more lively. It is better to place such an image next to the play area.
The modern design of the girl's bedroom can be diversified with photo wallpapers with a view of an ancient castle. Due to the color scheme in pastel colors, light accents of ceiling lamps, this image will organically fit into the minimalistic interior of the children's room. And it will convey the state of mind of its owner.
The young musician's room will be organically decorated with wallpaper with a musical score of your favorite piece of music or a panel from photo wallpaper with an artistic image of musical instruments. Wall murals can be placed on one wall, or on the ceiling and on the wall, which will give a special musicality to the room. It is better to place musical accents next to the sleeping place; you can enhance the interior by refrain of wallpaper on a musical theme over the child's workplace.
