It is quite common when expecting a little one to want everything to be just perfect. Painting out the nursery can be something that needs quite a bit of thought. So what are the best paint colors for a nursery? The answer can hinge on quite a number of factors.
1. Traditional Colors
For some people, especially if the gender is known, go with the standard blue for boys and pink for girls, with perhaps a few dashes of white here and there. There are also a number of gender neutral colors that are becoming more popular such as pale purple, yellow, cream or greens. You don’t have to stick to tradition though.
2. Create an Atmosphere
Certain colors evoke different feelings in people and you may want to look at placement of the nursery and the surroundings to decide what the best color for a nursery would be in your home. Yellow is perfect for brightening up a darker room that may not get as much sunlight while white may be a little too bright (you can always use white to blend and accentuate any other colors).
Calming colors such as pink, lavender and lilac and other pastel purples work well for a nursery in a busier area of the home. Green also promotes peacefulness and relaxation, which is perfect for a noisier area of the home. Colors such as gray promote thinking but can also make the room feel sad, so spruce it up with other colors if you go with gray. Stay away from black and very dark colors unless using them minimally to accentuate certain sections and preferably only in a room that gets a lot of natural light.
3. Complement the Rest of Your Home
Your home may be painted along a certain theme or style and you might want to blend the nursery to match. Look at what is outside the door of the nursery as well and pick colors that will not contrast too glaringly with the rest of your home.
You can also paint the nursery in a similar color to the rest of the home but use other colors as accents on moldings and trim. If you use pastel colors on the walls you can also choose decor with deeper hues to stand out against the pale colors of the walls. You should also look at your nursery furniture and choose colors that are not going to clash with the decor.
4. Nursery Themes
If you decide to go with a theme for your nursery, you might need to choose colors that will blend well with your theme. If you choose a natural theme, you might want to go with greens and browns, while an underwater theme might require blues and whites to make it pop. If you go with a character theme such as Ariel, the best paint colors for the nursery would suit the mermaid theme of blues with accents of bright colors.
5. Paint with the Science
According to research, babies don’t start seeing color until they are 3 months old. They basically see in black, white, and gray up until then with colors starting to come in from 3 to 6 months. So you could choose monochrome colors to start with and then add some bright accent colors in the decor later on such as stencils, throw pillows, and bright color furniture. You could always go with a color wall made up of blocks of various colors for teaching all the names of the colors at around 3 years of age.
Conclusion
There are so many choices for the best paint colors for a nursery and what you choose is really only determined by your own style, themes, and household decor. Whatever you choose, we are sure the little ones will love it.
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