When decorating a child's room you can add a little bit of luxury to their bedroom. If your entire house has luxurious interior decorating you can add a touch of elegance to your child's bedroom and still keep it a fun atmosphere. One of several ideas would be to add a little tropical fantasy to your child's bedroom.
If you want colorful pictures of palm-fringed beaches or boats bobbing in the sea, you could walk in to a craft store and pick up wall adhesives. These can be easily stuck on the wall and can be conveniently removed without residue if the child wants a change.
In case you want to create the pictures on the wall you could draw with acrylic paint. Keep in mind the overall color scheme in the room. You could create a mural with a theme or just hang pictures that the child has drawn. If your child is brimming with doodles, you could have a blackboard wall in which he or she could come up fresh sketches almost daily.
The furnishing fabrics used in a child's room should complement the wall color. It follows that these should be in vibrant shades and be ready to take some mischievous handling. If you are not convinced with off-the-shelf products, you could choose the fabrics and get the bedding custom made to suit your child's needs. Stick to natural shades, as these are soothing. Always make two sets of bedding for children, one heavy and the other light. This is just so that the tropical theme could be maintained throughout the year.
Why leave the ceiling? You could add a dash of the huge sky by sticking wall adhesives of the sun and stars. These can be changed easily and children would look forward to the changing pattern of day and night right inside their room.
Information is available aplenty from magazines, furniture stores and online design magazines and furniture stores.
There are three important things to remember while decorating your child's room with a luxurious flair. First, you must be prepared for changes, sometimes very often, as the child grows very fast and finds other interesting interiors options. Second, as far as possible, try to include little things put together by the child. Paintings, hand crafted works; mosaic etc. can add luxury. This enhances the self-esteem of the child and makes her or him look forward to coming into the room. Third, make the child an active participant in the decoration effort. This means helping out with putting up the things in their places as well as in choosing the right materials for decoration.
Wall Stickers For Child's Room
The point of a safety culture is not "safety over everything else." The goal is to balance the needs of safety with the reality of living your life.
In this article, we'll explore how to handle 3 critical safety areas to consider when child-proofing your home: child safe window blinds, child safe lamps and lamp placements, and child safe bookshelves and cabinetry.
Child Safe Window Blinds
In the early 1990s, blind safety was a hot item among child safety advocates. Babies and toddlers were being accidentally strangled by the cords of window blinds and an outpouring of consumer concern lead to fundamental changes in the way window blinds and window shades were designed. A second redesign of window blinds in the late 90s improved blind safety even further.
However, about one child a month dies from accidental entanglement in the cords of window blinds. You don't need to leave your windows uncovered, just take steps to enhance the safety of window blinds your home.
- Move the crib or bed away from the windows so the cords of the window blinds don't dangle over his head.
- Move chairs and other climbable objects away from windows and window blinds.
- Tie up the cords of your window blinds so that they well out of the reach of little hands.
- Use a window blinds cord safety tool which collects the loose portions of the cord into a safety ball that hangs near the top of the window blinds.
- Older blinds can be made safer with a free repair kit from the Window Covering Safety Council.
Child Safe Lamps and Lamp Placements
Children are notorious for climbing up on everything as they explore. For lamps sitting on tables, wrap the cord tightly around the table leg so that when the table wiggles, the lamp does not topple to the ground.
Another option is to install ceiling mounted track lighting or wall mounted lamps to keep lamps out of the reach of children and also secure so that they cannot be pulled over. Lamps that fall off of tables are not just a hazard to small hands that could be burned by the hot light bulb, but can also pose a serious fire hazard.
Child Safe Bookshelves and Cabinetry
Small children that are learning to walk by pulling themselves up on objects and older children that love to climb are at serious risk of being crushed by large heavy bookshelves and cabinetry. Fortunately, there is a simple remedy for this that takes just a few minutes to implement.
Using an "L" or "U" shaped bracket, drill one side of the bracket into the back or back shelf of the cabinetry itself. Next, drill the other portion of the bracket directly into the wall. Be sure to test the strength of the bracket by pulling hard on the cabinetry to ensure a strong hold.
Remember the mantra of child safety: It only takes a second. No one can watch a child every single moment. Minimizing the dangers by taking precautions with your window blinds, securing lamps, and bolting bookshelves and cabinetry to walls makes it less likely disaster will strike during that moment your attention wanders. By keeping household risks as low as reasonably achievable you make your home a safe and secure environment.
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