We're moving and need to paint the new house. DD asked that her room be blue and picked a TIffany's/turquoise-y blue color. For DS, I was planning to paint his room light blue, but their rooms are right next to each other and I don't want them to be too similar, you know? Plus, DH and I were talking about wall colors last night and he said he's not going to repaint his room when we switch him to the big boy room, but just change out decor. So that got me thinking. Is the light blue the wisest choice for an older kiddo?
FWIW, we're using some of the decor items from this collection, but not the bedding set, maybe just the sheets: https://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10961884
TIA!
Re: Help with nursery colors for a boy
Ooh, love these suggestions! Might convince DH to go with something tan/khaki. I'm thinking dark blue on all walls might be a tad too much, but an accent wall sounds really nice (in fact, we're doing an accent dark red wall in our bedroom too).
And I love the greens, but sadly, there's no green in this bedding.
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so if her color is a tiffanyish color than you can go with a different shade of blue for baby or a totally diff color like the others said. you could do stripes in one room and not in the other, or paint the ceiling in one room, or chair rail with one color above and one below. so many choices!
We don't have much time before we move, so the chair rail is out (and I love love love chair rails!) I'm trying to convince DH to just paint his room one color and then add stripes later (the kid isn't going to be in his room for another half a year at least!)
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Welcome to the world, Baby W: born on 3/8/12 @ 3:49pm - 8lb 11 oz, 22 in.
We painted our son's room "warm caramel" by Glidden. It is in the tan family. We love it and plan to keep it for a long time. In fact, I am already planning on painting his room in our next house this color.
Ooh, his room looks so cozy!
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That is another thing I like about this color. When the light is on and the curtains are open, it is very bright in his room. However, it is almost cave-like for naptime because the color doesn't have an extra brightness to it. Plus we have blackout shades behind the curtains, so that probably helps.