Home Sweet Home

Gone are the days when pinks and blues were the colors for young ones. With the growing revolution on colors and interchanging moods and hobbies, we see the gender line just pass off on colors, for best, we hope. Don’t be surprised to see a cupboard full of balls and motorbikes in your little angel’s favorite toy stock.

When decorating your kid’s room, keep in mind his and her temperament and use colors that blend with individual likings. You can then focus on bits that personalize the space with your kid’s choice. You know, things like wall paint, paper and draperies, rugs and other pieces like them — the details.

Listed here are some attention paying factors you could use when planning a kid’s bedroom,

Walls & Colors

Like mentioned earlier, you can get more inventive with color and schemes. Murals are a great way to do a dull wall and add life. Wallpapers come in different creative patterns for kids. If painting, try to use water-based colors. In case you are starting from scratch, it would be better to do the wall colors and then get furniture that matches.

Lights

Light is important and in a child’s life it gets even bigger. Use bright lights over the study, and to highlight certain accents or favorite corners. Floor lights may be great, as also dimmable lights. You can find many creative shapes and designs that can compliment your kid’s room.

Flooring/Rugs

Floor tiles come in fancy colors, but it is advised to pay attention to details. You don’t want slippery tiles in kid’s room. Wooden flooring may be great, or regular non-slippery and good quality tiles can be fine too, and you can cover them up with rugs for novelty. You can find many friendly rug patterns specially designed for kids.

Furniture

You get so much of kid furniture these days that you can wonder if it will be of any use two years down the line. The essential probably are the regular ones—bed or twin beds/bunk beds, a spacious cupboard, and bookshelf, a study table with comfortable chair. An added safety point, try to buy furniture with rounded edges in a kid’s room.

Windows

Possibilities know no bound when it comes to draping the windows. Stained glass, tinted windows with white lace, shadowed windows where you block light to shadow shapes, or nicely draped windows that go with a theme.

Last but not least

Planning pays. If you decide on exactly the things you want, and the budget on hand, you can use the planning to create the effect you want without burning the pocket. Allow your child to participate; he/she may have the most practical thing in mind for his study, display or play. You can let her/him know the budget and work together. Quality must be of high priority when buying sheets, pillow covers and cushions. Include play and store cubes to avoid clutter, use bright colors in the playroom, try and round up on non-breakable material for kids like to play a lot.

Lastly, unleash your creative juices when doing kid interiors. Kids are imaginative, so allow you the freedom to think like a child again.

Source : Bedroom Decorations For Kids

If you walk into any carpeting store, you’ll find yourself amazed at all of the choices that are there for you to pick from.  You’ll find textured plush carpets, saxony carpets, berber carpets, and even commercial grade carpets.  There are carpets that can be installed wall to wall, and carpets that can be cut to size with bound edges and carpet squares.

Your first consideration should be how much traffic you are going to have on the carpet.  If you plan to put carpet in the bedroom, then it won’t have as much traffic as carpet in the living room.

You’ll also want to inquire about the rating of the carpet as well.  Indoor carpeting is normally rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest  rating. Carpets with a 5 rating are considered the best for heavy traffic areas.  Rating of 4 are considered outstanding and recommended for heavy traffic areas of your home.

Ratings of 2.5 to 4 would provide normal durability for your home.  Carpets that rate 2.5 or lower should only be used with light traffic areas, such as bedrooms.  Choosing carpet based on the type of traffic it will receive can help you save a lot of money down the road, although you should buy carpet suited to your needs and requirements.

The highest quality of carpet you can buy is carpet made of wool.  Wool carpets are very expensive, although you’ll reap the benefits over years of use as wool will easily out perform any man made carpet.  Two of the best benefits of wool carpet include its natural soil resistance and it’s ability to retain appearance, meaning it won’t crush or wear down like other carpets.

If you can’t afford to have woold carpet installed throughout your entire house, then you should instead have it installed in the room that receives the highest amount of traffic.

There are several different man made carpets that you can choose from as well.  Nylon is stain resistant as well, and repels mildew.

Carpets made of olefin is also a great choice for high traffic areas as it is very strong and easy to clean.  Polyester is another good carpet as it is easy to clean and repels water based stains.

The color consideration is also important.  Light colored carpets create an effect of a larger space, although they do tend to show stains more easily.  Dark carpets on the other hand tend to absorb light, giving a room what many know as  the “cozy feeling”.