Interior room for a newborn

Interior design rooms for a newborn

Expecting a baby in the family is the most exciting and happy time. But along with happy moments, a wave of responsibility and worries about preparing a space for their baby rolls in future parents. Whether it is a separate room for the baby or an area in the parent's bedroom - it is necessary to arrange a place for a small family member with convenience, practicality, safety and aesthetics pleasing to the eye. Of course, every parent wants his child to be surrounded by a safe, environmentally friendly, beautiful and functional environment. But in order to achieve the maximum reflection of your desires and criteria for the best room for the baby, it is better to start preparing it long before the baby appears. The more time you have, the greater the number of nuances that are important both in the first time and in the long run, it will be possible to foresee at the stage of repair, furnishing and decoration.

Bright baby room design

At first, the child will not have his own color preferences or favorite options for decorating the space, so it is important to focus on the environment in which it will be convenient and comfortable for parents. If mom and dad are happy and calm, peaceful and contented with life, then this attitude will be passed on to the baby. For the baby, it is important that the furniture and decoration that surrounds him are eco-friendly, hypoallergenic and safe, so that the room does not have sharp corners, sliding and swinging mechanisms that pose a threat.

Bright room

Recommendations for arranging a room for a baby:

  • the space for the baby should be bright and well ventilated;
  • in addition to natural light, it is important to consider options for artificial light sources of various modifications;
  • it would be nice to organize at least partial soundproofing of the room (performed at the stage of preparing surfaces for finishing work);
  • the room should be warm, but not hot (organization of a heating system with the possibility of temperature control);
  • the space should be functional, but not cluttered, it is important to use only the necessary furniture and decor, leaving as much space as possible for the games of the growing baby;
  • finishing materials and furniture should be environmentally friendly, not cause allergic reactions and create a warm and cozy atmosphere of the interior;
  • textile window decor should be minimal and easy to clean;
  • similar criteria apply to carpets, which should be easy to care for and occupy no more than a third of the room’s area.

Snow-white space with furniture

Bright accents

The color palette of the room for the baby

In terms of creating a calm and relaxing atmosphere in the room for the baby, it is necessary to use light, neutral shades, pastel colors. Obviously, such a palette will be a great backdrop for furniture and decor. On the other hand, psychologists argue that for training the baby’s brain and proper development, bright interior elements are needed that can attract a children's eye. It is important for a growing child to be able to focus on accent spots of the surrounding atmosphere. As a result, in the room for the baby, there should be both light, pastel colors, and bright, colorful elements of the interior.

Color schemes

Color combinatorics

If you plan to finish the nursery in white, do not forget about color accents. With the help of bright stickers, stickers, you can not only diversify the interior palette, but also bring an element of the game, fairy tales into the design of the space for the baby. Such stickers are easy to remove and replace with more relevant options that match the age and preferences of the growing child.

Wall Stickers

Wall with droplets

Choosing beige and sand shades for arranging a room for a baby, you create a favorable atmosphere for rest and relaxation. At first, these color effects will be associated primarily with your condition. If the parents are calm and confident, then the child is relaxed.

Sand shades

Decorating a room for a newborn

Walls

For wall decoration, it is better to use safe painting or wallpapering. Paper wallpapers with a vinyl surface will not only create an attractive appearance for the room, but also turn out to be a practical option for wall decoration after a while, when the child begins to walk, and then draw on any surface. You hardly planned to make repairs a year or two after the birth of a child, so it is better to think about wall decoration with a margin of practicality and functionality that meets the growing needs of your child.

Baby Room Decoration

The development of tactile reflexes is extremely important for a small child, with age this helps to improve motor skills. Choose a wallpaper with a relief surface and the child will be pleased and interesting to touch them. It is better to opt for solid colors. Against their background, any wall decor will look advantageous - from family photos to drawings of your growing artist. In addition, you will not need to worry about whether the print on the walls annoys the baby.

Original decoration

In addition, you can use staining with the help of special stencils, which are enough in stores of finishing materials. A more expensive and unique way of decorating the walls in the room of a small family member is art painting.

Stencil Drawings

Drawings on the walls of the nursery

Ceiling

In the room for the baby, it is better to abandon the stretch ceilings so popular today. The material with which the decoration is carried out is fully synthetic. It is better to prefer painting with safe materials. True, for this it is necessary to achieve a perfectly flat ceiling surface either by plastering, or by means of suspended structures.

Decoration of the ceiling in the nursery

Floors

To decorate the floors in the children's room, designers recommend the use of cork material - it is environmentally friendly, pleasant from the point of view of touch, hypoallergenic and safe, easy to clean. True, the appearance of the cork flooring may not appeal to all homeowners and not for any style of space design. You can also use a high-quality laminate - the material cannot be called environmentally friendly from the point of view of the production method, but the options for allergic reactions to such a coating are becoming less and less every year, due to the improvement of the manufacturing process of floor cladding products.

Flooring in the nursery

Another design option for floors is a wooden floor board with varnish. The option is not cheap, but no one doubts the environmental friendliness of the natural material, and any interior style will harmoniously look with similar flooring.

Floor wooden board for a nursery

One of the most undesirable options for decorating floors in a baby's room is carpet. It is better to replace the continuous canvas with small carpets, which you can easily clean and remove from the room for ventilation. Bright small rugs can not only bring color diversity to the nursery, but also zoning the room, highlighting the game segments of space.

In purple tones

Furniture in the room for the baby

Wood furniture is a clear favorite for arranging children's rooms. Natural material is environmentally friendly, durable and has an attractive appearance. Unpainted wood furniture brings the warmth of natural material to the atmosphere of the room, creating coziness and comfort.

Dark wood furniture

Wood furnishings

Crib - a kaleidoscope of ideas

If you have the opportunity not to purchase a crib for growth, but to buy a small cradle first, then be sure to use it.Psychologists say that for the first months of staying in a crib, a child needs very little space so that he does not feel a sharp change in his stay, because his mother had a very tight stomach, the baby was shrouded in warmth from all sides. In a small lullaby, babies sleep calmer. In addition, there are a lot of ideas for making a unique design - cradles with a swinging mechanism, equipped with a backlight and the ability to turn on quiet, pleasant music.

Original cart bed

Unusual crib

Original cradle design

The original cradle made of wood is not just a place to sleep, but a small house for the baby, creating "protection" from almost all sides. The theme of the starry sky performed by the cradle, extended in the decoration of the corner for the baby.

Unusual sleeper performance

And when the child grows out of a small cradle, and this happens in six months, he can be moved to a crib, which is enough for him until the age of two or three years.

Design solution for baby

A round bed is a unique opportunity to create not only an original, comfortable, but also a safe place to sleep for your child. Of course, this option will not serve you for more than a year, but during this time it will also serve as an arena. In addition, such models create a truly royal look of the room for the little prince or princess.

Royal sleeper

Round crib

Oval crib

Metal beds are strong and durable, they can serve as a bed for more than one generation of children in the family. It is only important, acquiring such a model, to make sure that there are no protruding forging parts in the design, that all surfaces are smooth, the decor is smooth and rounded. After all, only in the first months the child lies in the bed almost motionless, then he will begin to get up and taste all the surfaces and objects that come across in the way.

Metal bed

Metal furniture

Storage systems and changing tables

Open shelving for books and toys is the best option for organizing storage systems in terms of security. Low racks do not have drawers and swing doors, which create many reasons for getting minor injuries in young children. The only thing you need to worry about is that the rack should be stable enough and made of environmentally friendly materials.

Shelving for children

A changing table located near the crib is an ideal furniture pair for arranging a room for the baby. A swaddle place will be more convenient if there are storage systems near the table - shelves, drawers and cells for placing care products that are important to keep at hand.

Changing table next to the crib

Baby room furniture

A large chest of drawers for baby things is an effective way to think about the future growth of the baby. While he is very tiny and has little clothes, but the children grow very quickly, you will need a constant change of wardrobe and it is better if the storage systems in the baby’s room are enough for such an expansion. A chest of drawers with a large number of drawers is a great way to organize all cloakroom items and baby care products in order to spend as little time as possible searching for the desired item.

Snow-white furniture

Wooden dressers

Capacious storage systems

Convenient chest of drawers with many compartments

Built-in storage systems will allow you to create a base for the future, when the baby’s wardrobe grows up and one small chest of drawers to store things and accessories will not be enough. You just have to change the cradle to a crib, and later on to a sleeping place for a preschooler and a teenager, and the storage systems will remain the same.

Embedded systems

Capacious built-in wardrobe

Storage systems under the stairs

Built-in wardrobe

Additional furniture for parents

In addition to a bed for a child and storage systems for toys, items and care products. Furniture for parents must be installed in the room for the newborn. Whether it will be a comfortable rocking chair or a small couch, or maybe a full place to sleep - you decide. It depends, first of all, on the size of the room and your personal preferences.

Additional furniture for parents

Upholstered furniture for parents in the baby's room

If you are installing a chair near a crib, then do not forget to worry about the source of local lighting. Surely, such a room decor is a temporary option, so it is better to choose a table or floor lamp and not drill holes in the wall to install a sconce.

Chair for parents near the crib

One of the options for additional furniture is a suspended round armchair, which can be mounted both to the ceiling and to be located on a stationary tripod. Such a device helps to rock the child without holding it in his arms. Establish a convenient place for parents to sit next to the hanging chair and facilitate the process of motion sickness of the baby.

Hanging round rocking chair

Lighting, decor and textile decoration for a space for a newborn

For window decoration, it is better to give preference to simple textile solutions. It is important that the room for the baby is bright, so it is better to use transparent tulle as curtains or not to curtain windows at all. You also need to think about a window decor option that will collect a minimum amount of dust. Choose simple curtains that will be easy for you to wash, discard complex compositions, many folds, ruffles and lambrequins, minimize the presence of various fringes and brushes.

Decorating a room for a newborn

Textile room decoration

To create the necessary level of artificial light in the baby’s room, several light sources are needed. In the installation area of ​​the crib, you can use either a hanging chandelier or wall sconces, or install a floor lamp in the so-called parent segment. Ensure that the lighting design is stable and safe.

Lighting system in the nursery

Lighting for children

Wall decor is one of the most effective ways to diversify the light wall decoration in a room for a newborn. Family photos in bright frames, pictures depicting fairy-tale characters or cartoon characters - they are easy to change when the child’s addictions change as they grow older.

Wall decor

Bright design of the place for the newborn

Decor in the children's area

From the point of view of decorating the room for the baby with carpets, it is important not to overdo it. At first, until the child learns to sit, and then crawl, you will need a small rug only in the area of ​​the crib or changing table, where parents will spend the most time.

Mats for children

Area for the baby in the parent bedroom

Not everyone has the opportunity and desire to equip a separate room for a newly born baby. If they equip a place for the baby in their bedroom, then most likely they will not make repairs in connection with this event. At the very least, you need to make sure that there are no sources of loud sounds near the crib - a TV and a computer (if any are present in the bedroom). It will be more convenient if, in addition to the crib for the baby, you install storage systems for children's clothes and care products - the best option would be a chest of drawers with a changing table.

Crib in the parent bedroom

Area for the baby in the parents bedroom

Waiting for crumbs in the parents bedroom

Examples of designing a room for a newborn boy

It is difficult for us to get rid of stereotypes that have been developing for many years on the theme of color preferences in boys and girls. No matter how many years the history of interior design counts, they will never stop decorating rooms for boys in blue tones, and for girls in pink. From the point of view of color choice, the little owner of the room doesn’t care about the methods of decorating the walls and furnishing the room in different colors. For a favorable atmosphere in the baby’s room, it is important that the parents like the decor and the color decisions made, then the child will be happy. In the future, he will be able to talk about his preferences in the color scheme.

Room for a boy

Children's in blue tones

Room for a little princess or all shades of pink in one room

When creating a plan for arranging a room for a newborn girl, many parents choose different options for pink and peach. Equally popular are all shades of purple as the main color choice for decorating a child’s room.

Room for the girl

Nursery for a little princess

All shades of pink in the nursery