Children's Room Wall Design: Beautiful Ideas for Children and Babies

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1. Children's room wall design: ideas from our community
2. The right colours for the children's room
3. Painting ideas for children's and baby's rooms
4. Children's room paint: Ideas by age
5. Painting children's rooms the right way: Instructions by MissPompadour (incl. video)
6. FAQ: Frequently asked questions
7. These are the accessories you need to paint your child's room

Whether you're preparing the baby's room for a new arrival or you want to transform the children's room into a teenager's room - the approach to wall design and painting the children's room always remains the same, only the colour shades change. We have put together some ideas for children's room wall design for you.

Children's room wall design: Ideas from our community

Why should you paint your child's room? Bright children's eyes are reason enough! With a little effort and the right colour, you can conjure up a cosy retreat and a smile on your child's face. Our community has already done the groundwork and provides you with ideas for painting your child's room.

The right colours for the children's room

Whether baby, toddler or teenager - for the young inhabitants, their rooms are their little home, where they should feel safe and comfortable, where they can retreat and where they spend a lot of time. That's why it's important to choose the right colour shade and a good quality of paint when designing the walls in children's rooms. There are no limits to the paint ideas, but one thing is extremely important: the children's room colours must not contain any substances that are harmful to health.

These colours encourage your child's creativity

Children are creative. This starts with the youngest children, usually without any help from us. Light-coloured walls are an invitation for the little ones to paint creatively. They quickly decorate them - which doesn't always bring great joy to parents

To allow your child to express themselves creatively while preserving your beautiful wall paints, it is advisable to define certain areas as "creative areas". In concrete terms, this means that you paint part of the wall surface with MissPompadour Chalkboard Paint and Magnet Paint, naturally at working height for your child. These surfaces can then be painted with chalk and decorated with magnets.

However, it is not only predefined work surfaces that encourage your child's creativity, but also the decor, the wall paint, colour accents and the colours of the furniture in the children's room.

There are separate specialist articles on colour psychology about which colour stands for what. It's best to be guided by your child's preferences. Colour selection and paint ideas are the perfect opportunity to involve your child in the wall design of the children's room and give them space to make their own decisions. Show them a few selected colour shades and let them decide for themselves. Our colour cards will help with the selection.

As our wall paints can be easily painted over, you can change the colour scheme at any time if your child's taste changes over time.

These colours ensure a peaceful night's sleep

As a general rule, calm, muted colours and pastel shades are ideal for a bedroom or sleeping area. A nice example would be the soft beige colour with warm. According to the latest scientific findings, colours that remind the little one of the colour in the womb are particularly suitable for baby rooms. Once the children are a little older, the nursery can be divided into several areas. Different colours that harmonise with each other can be used in the play and sleeping areas

It is also important to pay attention to the child's preferences here. Some children like it bright and need a night light to sleep - for them, the sleeping area should also be designed in a more friendly colour. Some children like little stars or figures when they look up at the ceiling from their bed.

For teenagers, everything changes again, as they not only sleep in their bed, but also use it as a sofa. Their room becomes a feel-good area where they also spend time with their friends. Here it is particularly important to cater to the wishes of teenagers - even if the teenage room ideas may not match your own taste

What you should consider when choosing colours for the children's room

It is important to choose wall paints for the children's room that do not pollute the environment with harmful substances. Conventional paints smell strongly when they are applied and continue to release volatile substances into their surroundings for months afterwards. This is not the case with MissPompadour Paints. Our colours are made from natural chalks, marble powders and other high-quality binders. This allows your walls and, above all, your children to breathe. Whether you choose our LittlePomp chalk paints or our MissPompadour paints, you'll always make a good choice.
Our colour range includes the following wall paints, which are ideal for painting a child's room:

LittlePomp chalk paints: our chalk paint specially developed for children's rooms

MissPompadour - The Functional Wall Paint: our washable and hard-wearing wall paint

MissPompadour - The Valuable Wall Paint: the preservative-free, extra matt wall paint with high opacity

CosyColours wall paints - elegant, rich colour shades based on chalk

Painting ideas for children's and baby's rooms

With colours, colour elements and motifs, you can completely change the wall design of your baby's room. On the one hand, there are the wall paints as a basis, i. e. the colour with which you paint the majority of the children's room. On the other hand, there are the accent colours with which you set accents in the room or define certain areas. Not only wall areas can set colourful accents, but also furniture. There are no limits to your painting ideas.

Blackboard paint for creative fun

Create defined areas for your child's creativity with blackboard paint. Paint an area - it can also be a geometric shape - with blackboard paint and place a small box next to it for the crayons.

MissPompadour blackboard paint is colourless and is applied over the wall paint, but does not change its colour. The children can paint the wall with white and coloured chalk and everything can be easily removed with water and a cloth.

Simple & beautiful DIY motifs

You can use motifs, stencils, borders or wall decorations to quickly and individually embellish your child's room - just like painting individual surfaces. Children in particular always have their favourite motifs or heroes that they would like to see on the wall. You can easily apply these

Print out the motif in the right size, cut it out, stick it on the wall, trace the outline and then colour it in

Another option is to stick wall tattoos, wall stickers or wall decorations on the wall. The MissPompadour stencil motifs are also a wonderful way to decorate children's room walls. A canvas picture makes a quick change without much effort.

Perhaps you could also decorate a wall with a great children's wallpaper and combine it with a neutral wall paint on the other walls? At MissPompadour, you'll find great non-woven wallpapers for children and adults.

Wall design in the children's room: ideas by age

Depending on the age of your child, there will be different requirements for the wall paints and, of course, different wishes when choosing colours. While soft pastel shades are ideal for baby rooms, teenagers may prefer a more colourful look. Below we show you tips and which colour qualities are suitable for which age.

Ideas for baby room wall design

The difference between a baby's room and a child's room is that, as parents, you spend a lot of time in a baby's room yourself. Especially at the beginning of this new phase of life, it is particularly important that not only your child but also you feel comfortable and secure. Friendly, low-irritant colours such as a light green or a soft yellow and especially a soft, light orange are therefore suitable for the wall design. The same applies here: create different areas with different accents. For example, you can paint stars above the cot and motifs next to the changing table so that the little ones have something to look at. You should also paint the area around the nursing chair with a wall paint that conveys a sense of security and calm.

We recommend our LittlePomp chalk-paint as a wall paint for the baby room, as it is particularly environmentally friendly, VOC-free and does not release any toxic vapours into the environment.
To embellish children's furniture such as the changing unit, cot or cradle, they can be painted with LittlePomp chalk varnish. Our varnish is solvent-free. The surfaces treated with it can be cleaned with a damp cloth and are toy-safe. The latter is important, as babies often lick or "nibble" the bars on their cot

From when can children see colours?

Already one week after birth, a baby can see and distinguish colours. Red, yellow, orange and green are perceived first. Blue and purple tones follow a little later. It is therefore important which colours you choose for your baby's room. When choosing colours, also consider the size and lighting of the room. For the baby room, you will certainly want calm colour shades so that everyone can be comfortable in the room. After all, experience shows that parents spend a lot of time in the baby room: breastfeeding, changing nappies and rocking the baby to sleep

Which colour calms babies?

In the MissPompadour LittlePomp collection you will find many baby-friendly colours that not only calm babies but also parents. Especially pastel shades like a soft pink, a gentle orange or light blues have a friendly effect. But a delicate, light shade of grey or a fresh, discreet green are also particularly suitable for the baby room.

Ideas for toddler rooms

All in all, we recommend not digging too deep into the paint pots when it comes to colours for the children's room, because it often doesn't take long for the room to fill up with toys. And they are usually very colourful. The eye - and not only that of your child - is pleased when the walls of the children's room radiate calm.

MissPompadour - The Functional Wall Paint is suitable as wall paint for the children's room, because it is extremely impact and scratch resistant and can be washed off wet.
Now the MissPompadour blackboard paint also becomes interesting so that the little ones can write down their first words. Or you can paint a section of wall with MissPompadour magnet paint.
The magnet paint is dark grey and must be painted over with the wall paint to become invisible. Photos and small works of art by the children can then be attached to this invisible magnetic wall with magnets.

Great colour shades for primary school children

A children's room for primary school children has different requirements. After all, the needs of a primary school child are not just to play and be creative, but also to learn and work. A schoolchild already develops their own preferences when it comes to the colour scheme of their room. So be sure to let your child have a say when it comes to colour ideas. A new colour scheme in the children's room also makes it clear that a new phase of life is beginning. If there is enough space, paint the wall behind the workstation in a calm colour that promotes concentration. Wall design in the children's room with blue directly behind the desk is a great option. A sandy beige colour is then perfect for the rest of the room. Blue also encourages creativity, while the combination promotes concentration.

Pro tip: Paint our MissPompadour magnet paint under the actual wall paint. You won't be able to see it later, but your schoolchild will be able to attach sticky notes, memos or a small work of art they've painted themselves to the wall

Teenage room ideas

From this age at the latest, you should leave the choice of colour to the occupants of the room themselves. Even if some parents find it difficult, the taste of teenagers is often very different from that of their parents. Many teenagers prefer strong, very dark colour shades for a while. Nevertheless, give them their own choice so that they have the chance to develop their taste. Our colours can also be easily repainted at any time. Involve your child in designing their own bedroom according to their own ideas. Once your child has grown out of our LittlePomp collection, our MissPompadour Paints offer a wide selection that you are guaranteed to be able to get to grips with. Whether it's the rich yellow with saffron, the dark blue with midnight or dark green with petrol - these colour shades are also ideal as an accent wall. With a soft colour on the rest of the walls, you can prevent your little one from becoming overstimulated.

Painting a child's room the right way: Instructions from MissPompadour

You want to paint the walls of your child's room with chalk paint in an imaginative and harmonious way? We will support you with our step-by-step instructions:

Step 1: Preparation

Cover the floor with cardboard, newspaper or plastic drop clothn. Protect delicate parts (like windows, doors or skirting boards) with tape. Fill in dents and holes with our To Fill - MissPompadour Filler. After drying, sand smooth briefly.

Step 2: Apply Stainblock

If your walls have stains such as old oil, soot and ink stains, it makes sense to apply a primer. This also applies if you have highly absorbent walls, such as plasterboard, or if you are painting over wallpaper. The following are suitable for this:

To Bond & Block - MissPompadour Primer: Ensures that stains do not show through into the new coat of paint and prevents tannins from escaping if you want to paint untreated wood panels, for example.
To Prime Walls - MissPompadour Wall Primer: Prepares highly absorbent or porous surfaces for painting.

Step 3: Apply colour

Now you can start applying the nursery paint. Be careful not to apply too much paint to the roller or brush. It's up to you whether you use a paint roller, a brush or a sprayer - the paint is easy to apply with all three. Always allow the paint to dry thoroughly before applying the second coat.

Video: Nautical ideas for children's room wall design

FAQ: Frequently asked questions about painting children's rooms

If you still have questions, we have summarised the most common ones for you here.

Which walls should I paint in the children's room?

All walls in the children's room should be painted with a light, friendly base colour. If you use bright colours, paint only selected areas. Since there are also a lot of toys decorating the walls in your children's rooms, it can otherwise become too restless.

Are there special colours for children's rooms?

You can paint the children's room with all our wall paints. Washable wall paints such as MissPompadour - The Functional Wall Paint have proven their worth, especially if only certain areas of the room are to be painted, especially for heavily used areas or as a background for a coat rack, for example.

How long should I air the children's room after painting?

Even though our paints do not contain any harmful chemical substances, the children's room should be well ventilated. As a guideline, the room should be well aired for about one day after painting.

When is the best time to paint the children's room?

As the children's room should be well ventilated, it is of course best to paint it during the warm seasons.

These are the accessories you need to Paint your child's room

Our accessories will help you transform your child's room into a beautiful and cosy space:

Newspaper or cardboard: To protect the floor from paint splashes.
MissPompadour Adhesive Tape - To Mask: To protect windows, doors or skirting boards
Paint roller: The paint roller for chalk paints 18cm is particularly suitable
Brushes: Choose wide brushes for painting large areas and narrow brushes for applying children's room motifs. We recommend using a bevelled brush so that you can also reach corners and edges easily.
stencils, wall stickers and wall tattoos as wall decorations

Colour selection

White & True - Chalk paint 2.5L

Content: 2.5 Litre (€23.60* / 1 Litre)

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