Child Room

Use whatever colors you like. There is no reason you have to stick with pastels just because it's a baby's room. All 3 of mine were all bright and bold colors when they were babies. They still have bright and bold colors now that they are older.

The baby won't care either way. I suggest you decorate it to please you.

i think whatever YOU like is good. as marda so wisely says, the baby really won't care.
but that's from us old ladies<G>. when i was a brand new mom that sort of baby psychology was hugely on my brain. so we painted my older boy's room bright, cheerful yellow. i loved it!
then i read, when he'd been in it for about 2 years, that bright yellow is an 'anxious' color and i was convinced i'd broken my baby. yet despite all of my horrible mismanaging, he's grown into a relaxed, laid back, groovy young man.
when the younger came along i didn't want to repeat my 'anxious' mistake, so painted his room in soft peach and aqua tones. and everyone rolled their eyes at me for using 'girl colors'. (the paint jobs occurred before the babies' births, and i adamantly refused to find out their sex in advance.) interestingly, he was a much more tightly-wound little fellow.
go figure. there's more to it than room color.
when we moved 'em in together i was so much more eddicated, and steamrolled over all their pleas for wackiness and went with bright white and primary color trim. it was like a delightful toy box. gads, what a good mother i was!
they both STILL torture me for that one.
when i finally gave up imposing my Will, the older went with black and orange walls, one with tiger stripes, and the younger had aqua with gold and silver fish hand painted on all the walls.
now i'm missing all those color schemes. when the boys moved out, my husband was thrilled to paint all the walls tasteful, grown up, appropriate colors. i think i need to sneak in and add a unicorn, or the solar system, or a tree from rivendell.
:) khairete
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Well, if your baby is anything like my kids were, he won't sleep or play in his room for the first year anyway. So pick whatever makes you happy. :)

What do you like and would want to look at for the next several years? My DD's room is pink, because I'm lazy. It was SD's room and when SD moved to another room, we found out DD was going to be a girl and we left it. Other people have done bright murals or nice little nursery themes. I think whatever reflects you at this time should be what you choose, be it cowboys or space aliens or calming greens and yellows.

I didn't know if it was a boy or girl, so I went with a bright jungle theme. The walls were white, but with a very wide (like 3 feet wide) jungle border around the bottom of the room, so it was like the animals were walking around. Then for curtains, I pulled a bright orange color out of the boarder to make curtains, with a dark green (also from the border) tie-back.

We didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl. We did a lighter yellow on the walls walls with a blue trim around the door, closet, and window. I painted wooden letters using a couple of different yellows, cream, light green, and blue. I think most, maybe all, of the paint colors were Disney colors. I think the blue was something like Bibbedy-bobbedy Blue or something corny like that. I still love the room 7 years later!

My son's room has deep gold walls and a multicolor rug in deep saturated colors. Restoration Hardware's entire baby line is in pale neutrals and they are stunning.

I suggest white or a light off white and decorate the windows, bedding, and throws with vivid colors. You can get letters from Hobby Lobby and paint them to match the color scheme, spell out the babies name. You can use several coordinating colors this way too.

We did a honeyed 'candleglow' yellow which reflected the light and brightened up a darker room considerably. Used a Dreamsicle orange for trim. We like bright colors in our house. I liked the yellow because it was something I could stand to look at and visually, it warmed up a room which often gets the east wind and can be cooler. He loves it and I figure, when he's a teen and has an opinion, it may not matter because he might just paint it black anyway, ha!

I suggest painting in a color that will easily transition your nursery to a toddler's and then preschooler's room. A nice yellow or gold as suggested below is great because you can coordinate it with pinks or blues or greens and it will look great. A soft mint green also looks amazing with pinks, blues, purple, whatever.

I would say something restful, bright colors might be too stimulating and you want them to be able to sleep in their room.

I used a soft yellow. It was called Blonde Beauty. It is a soothing color not in your face yellow. I love it.

Colors can affect your or the child's mood. What feeling do you want to express in that room.
This site may help
http://projectnursery.com/2010/03/how-color-affects-your-...#