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colourful kids bedrooms

There are some kids rooms you come across that instantly bring a big smile to your face.  They evoke a feeling of happiness by their cuteness and their super bright colour scheme.  There is something refreshing about seeing a kids room where there are no rules, where a load of colours have been thrown together and almost anything goes.  I’m not talking about the odd pop of colour or a few complimenary shades – I mean rooms where there is practically every colour under the sun!  If you’re thinking of brightening up your children’s rooms then these colourful kids rooms will definitely inspire you and they’ll also add a ray of sunshine to your day!

colourful kids bedroom

Could this room be any more cheerful?  Loosely themed around Summer with all the fresh fruit, ice-cream and colourful decorations, this room screams happiness!

kids room decor ideas for a small room

How crazy cute is this vintage kids room?  Crammed with stuff and crammed with colour, this room is such a quirky and fun space for a little kid. 

pastel kids room

This room has slightly softer colours than the first two rooms but there’s definitely no shortage of colour here!  Yellow, pink, blue, green, purple, orange – it’s all going on here and it looks fantastic.

colourful rooms for boys

Colourful rooms aren’t just for girls.  Big, bold solid colours like these yellows, blues and reds look stunning in a boys room too and they make for such a cheerful room.

colourful room decor ideas

Here we have colour from floor to ceiling and clashing coloured wallpapers too.  Yes this room is bold and busy but it’s definitely a stunning eye catcher too.  And what I also love is that this room works well for boy or girl.

colourful room decor

Colourful, playful, cheerful and fun!  This room again has so many colours that you wouldn’t normally think of using together but it looks great.

So are you tempted to add lots of colour to your kids rooms? 

Image credits: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

black and white decor ideasWhat look do you go for in a child’s bedroom?  Black and white, bold colour, pastels?  Modern, vintage, minimal?  There are so many choices and styles out there to decorate a kids room that it’s hard to choose one style above all others.  I keep flitting from colour choices and styles I like and change my mind every day but eventually end up coming back to the whole monochrome Scandinavian vibe.  That is monochrome with pops of colour.  A little colour just makes the black and white even more dramatic and with a monochrome backdrop, no colour is off limits.  I can sometimes neglect the boys on this blog as some readers have pointed out to me recently (sorry!) so today I’m sharing some of the coolest black and white boys rooms with bold pops of colour:

boys room decorating ideas

Accenting with red in a boys room – how striking does that look?  Bright red is such a bold colour so you don’t need much of it and it looks so great.  Red is a pretty under-used colour in kids rooms and while a lot of red can be too much, just a little accent like this works so well especially in a black and white room.

decorating boys rooms with yellow

Hello yellow!  Another great accent colour for a black and white boys room.  The yellow is used very sparingly with lots of grey and it ends up looking so stylish.  Also I love the paper flower decorations in this boys room – would you consider these for a boys room?

boys room decor ideas pictures

Charming, playful and delightful are the words that come to mind looking at this lucky boys room.  The black and white in this room has been complimented with soft pastel tones.  Again the pastel doesn’t take over but just adds that little pop of colour. 

boys room colour scheme ideas

In this bold black and white boys room, green is the accent colour.  But rather than stick to one shade of green, they’ve used a range.  I love the addition of an indoor plant which not only provides colour but is a lovely addition to a kids room.  Looking after a plant is a great little responsibility to give to a child, no?

shared room brothers decor ideas

I’m loving this cool shared boys room.  Shared by toddler and older brother it sticks very much to the black and white theme but with a hint of blue.  Using coloured furniture is a great way to introduce a little colour in to a black and white room.  And colours don’t always have to be bright – the muted blue here looks to perfect with the black and white.

Image credits: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

decorating with mint green in kids rooms

A few weeks ago I talked about adding yellow accents to a kids room because yellow is such a cheerful and happy colour.   Another colour that I’m currently crazy about is mint.  It’s so fresh, so fun and like yellow works for both sexes and little babies too.   Besides, Spring and Summer are the perfect seasons to add a bit of minty green freshness in to your home.  Even if you’re not re-decorating, you can easily add a hint of mint in to any kids room or even your own to give it a fresh new look.  Mint beautifully compliments most colours and all styles of decor.  So if you want to add a little brightness and light, here are some ideas on decorating with mint green in a kids rooms to inspire you:

mint green for a baby nursery

Probably the easiest and quickest way to add a hint of mint to a nursery or kids room is by simply putting up some mint green art.  That large poster in the nursery pictured above adds a real breath of freshness to the room.  And even though there isn’t a lot of mint green in this room, the poster is so impactful that you don’t need more.

mint green room ideas kids

From a modern baby nursery to a vintage kids room – here is another easy way to add a splash of mint to a kids room.  Any old piece of furniture that needs updating can be painted in a mint green colour.  Often the furniture in a kids room gets the most wear so it’s the perfect excuse to freshen it up.

decorating with mint green

How gorgeous is this little girls room?  Here little mint coloured decorations have been dotted around which work so well with the whites, golds and pinks in the room.  From the soft toy with mint ears to the graphic mint blanket, it’s just little things like these that can add that splash of mint to a kids room.

decorating with mint green walls

If you want to go for a bolder mint green look, then paint the walls!  A room painted in mint from floor to ceiling may be a bit too much so instead, think about colour-blocking like in the beautiful nursery above.  The block of mint green goes so well with the pale grey, pink and darker green.  And colour blocked walls look so cool. 

decorating with mint green ideas

Yet another way of decorating with mint green is to add some mint bed linen like in this room above.  It’s the perfect way to add some Spring freshness and can so easily be changed every season.  I also love how they’ve used a rug with a tiny splash of mint which just makes the bedding stand out even more.  And also how great does mint look with deep, dark colours too?

Image credits: 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5.

black and white room decorations

Ever since I can remember I’ve been drawn to minimal, simple, monochrome style.  When Anya was born and someone wanted to gift me a blanket for her, they asked what colour I wanted expecting a reply like pink or yellow.  My reply was off white or black and white.  My mum was horrified!  Horrified that I was subjecting my child to a colourless life!  But you know what – black, white and neutral tones can be so stunning in a kids room just like these decorations show us.  I can’t help but be drawn to things like that cat poster and that gorgeously simple pear pillow.  They can always be mixed with pops of colour so you can add as little or as much brightness as you like.  I won’t be giving up my black and white obsession any time soon so I’ve found some gorgeous black and white kids room decorations to share with you:

1.  grid pear pillow | 2. knitted bunny blanket | 3. girl doll cushion | 4. ball string lights | 5. cat poster | 6. whale chalkboard

grey room decor ideas kids

Recently I’ve noticed more and more grey bedrooms for kids and I’m loving it.  I’ve always been a fan of grey for both kids and baby rooms and when combined with lots of white and a pop of colour, it can look quite stunning for boy or girl or even unisex shared rooms.  It’s a colour scheme you won’t tire of and you can always add in more of any colour to brighten or change the room if you want to.  For Anya’s new room I had decided to go black and white with hints of pink but now after coming across so many beautiful grey kids rooms, I’m torn.   These rooms have really inspired me and so I thought I would share a few favourites as they may just inspire you too:

pink and grey girls bedroom ideas

This is one of the prettiest grey bedrooms I’ve come across recently.  There are lots of different shades of grey in this room but using so much grey just makes the other colours and decorations really stand out.  The little hints of pink, the white and the pastel touches all come to life against this sea of grey.

grey boys bedroom ideas

From a girly grey room to a more boyish grey room – grey works so well for both sexes and any age.  Here the shades of grey used are much darker and are complimented with even more grey decorations.  Paired with lots of white this room is very cool for a boy and makes such a nice change from blue!

grey bedroom decor ideas

This mostly white shared kids room uses grey in moderation.  I like the soft, fresh vibe of this room and I love how you could practically add any colour in to this room to add a pop of brightness if you wanted.  This is a unisex room that kids won’t outgrow quickly and will be very easy to update in years to come.  Simple and sweet.

grey kids room ideas

Grey works just as well in large doses as in small doses like this quirky girls room shows.  There’s no hiding from the grey here with completely grey walls and floors.  Some may find this a bit dark but I think its an enchanting and imaginative room.  And the bright pink as well as the unexpected touch of turquoise balance the grey really well. 

grey baby nursery ideas

If I ever have to do up a nursery or advise anyone in future, grey would be my first choice.  If you don’t know what you’re having, there is no better choice than gorgeous grey and you can always add colour accents once the baby arrives.  Grey is a calming colour even when using lots of it as this grey baby nursery shows.

colourful kids room

Most of the rooms above have used lots of grey with a hint of other colours but this room shows that you can easily add as much colour  as you want in to a grey room.  This girls room has all grey walls and some grey decor mixed with the brightest accessories and it looks so fun.  Grey doesn’t mean no colour – it just means as much or as little as you want and any colour you want.  Here we’ve got bright pink, yellow, turquoise and more and it all comes together so well.

If you ever thought grey was boring, I hope you’ve changed your mind.  It’s a timeless, ageless shade that can be combined with as much or as little colour as you like.  There are so many shades of grey to play with and so many ways to use grey in a kids rooms – from hints of grey to lots of grey.  Now back to my dilema – go with grey for Anya’s new room or to stick to the original plan of black and white.  What would you do?

"black white and red kids room decor"

Today, lets take a break from the Christmas gift lists and look at some kids room inspiration.  We are moving house next week (eek!) and the new place needs to be done up from scratch.  It hasn’t been decorated in 40 years!  So my brain is swimming with all kinds of decor ideas which I’ve been collecting on my pinterest boards including ideas for Anya’s new room.  While I can’t seem to move away from the whole black and white colour scheme, I’m liking the idea of adding an extra pop of colour especially for a kids room.  Recently I came across the above room and it really inspired me to think about red as the extra colour.  Have you ever considered red for a kids room?  It’s not a colour I would choose as a main one as too much red can be overbearing for me but if used sparingly with lots of white and some black, it can look quite striking.  And red is a great colour for boy or girl so it would be a great choice for a shared room too.  Here are some of my favourite rooms with pops of red:

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As these rooms show, you can add splashes of red in many different ways; one piece of red furniture, red bedding, red toys or even just a bold red poster that stands out will do the trick.  Because red is such a bright and vibrant color, you don’t need a lot of it to make an impact.  In the third picture I love the blue, black and white colour scheme which works so well with the bright red poster – something a bit different for a boys room.  And in the last picture just the smallest red accents look so great.  I am really liking this colour scheme for a kids room and maybe this will be the one for Anya’s room. What do you think? Would you consider red as an accent colour?

Image credits: 1. Mollymeg | 2. spearmint baby | 3. mini style | 4. boo and the boy

"colour palette of blues, greens, greys"There is something so eye-catching and vibrant about turquoise blue.  So when I spotted that cool turquoise and green room it inspired me for todays pinterest colour palette.  I love using blue and green together whether it’s midnight-blue with emerald green or turquoise with a fresher green like here.  And you can always add a little grey in to the mix if you feel like you need something neutral to balance it out. 

1. Turquoise and green kids room,  2. Mountain peaks kids blanket,  3. Baby ballerina shoes,  4.  Howling wolf wallsticker,  5.  Handmade doll twins.

Pins found on my pinterest boards and Milk Magazine.

Pinterest palettes ~ 01

September 23, 2013

"pinterest inspired colour palette 1"Of all the social media sites out there, I’m enjoying pinterest the most at the moment.  I love looking at pretty pictures and pinterest is full of them.  So I thought it would be fun to occasionally share some of my pins and also pins from other inspirational pinners.  But instead of just sharing pictures randomly, I’ve picked a colour palette and have chosen images within these colours.  So for this first one I’ve gone with black, white, green and the slightest hint of a peachy pink.  I love this combination of colours and think they would work well together in a kids room or even as an outfit.

Are you on pinterest?  Do you love it too or what’s your favourite social media?

1.  Green knitted sweater,  2.  Black and white kids room,  3.  Don’t grow up poster,  4. Green striped jacket,  5.  Cat at the altar doll

I have a folder on my laptop called ‘little things’ where all the inspiring and beautiful things, humorous things, quirky things and the things that make me smile get put away.  Today I thought I would share some of my current favourites:

"toy storage shelf"Love this simple DIY shelf to store all those little toys.

"handmade soft toys"I want to adopt these quirky hand made twins!

"DIY pierrot style collar"I want to try and make this gorgeous DIY pierrrot style collar.

"neon and pastel room" Love the neon and pastel colour scheme and that beaded hanging light.

 

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