Getting Started

Getting started on decorating a bedroom can sometimes be the most fun and hardest part.  Planning the decoration of a room to co-ordinate with the rest of the house and your style is very important, here are some tips on what to consider when getting started.

What will the room be used for?
Before you start looking at colors and accessories, have a think about what you want the room to be used for. Do you want to create a nursery that will evolve into a room for your older child without too much fuss and expense? Or a custom nursery for baby that will be used by any future babies? Will the room be solely for bubs to sleep in, or will he or she also use it as a playroom as they get older?

Themes
Are you planning on creating your child's bedroom or nursery around a theme? Some people design the entire room according to a theme, from walls and curtains to furniture and accessories, others use themed linen or artwork to brighten up a neutral room. You can also build a theme around a specific colour scheme. Some examples of themes are: Winnie the Pooh; Princess; Fairy; Sports; Zoo; Jungle; Cars.

Colour
When choosing a colour scheme for your child's bedroom or nursery, there are a few things to consider. If you are pregnant and don't know the sex of your baby, you will obviously be considering neutral colours, you may also choose to use neutral colours so that you don't have to repaint if your next child is a different sex. Do you want the walls in your child's bedroom or nursery to be consistent with the rest of the house? Do you want to keep the walls relatively neutral and brighten the room up with linen, curtains, borders and artwork? Or do you want to go all out with brighter, bolder colours? You may even think about a feature wall to accent your colour scheme. 

For some colour combo ideas try:
NEUTRAL
Resene Cloud Nine with Resene Honey
Resene Toffee with Resene Oopsy Daisy
Resene Buzz with Resene Double Spanish White
Resene Rising Star with Resene Sticky Fingers

GIRLS
Resene Double Spanish White with Resene Princess
Resene Flower Power with Resene Tutti Frutti
Resene Lullaby with Resene Fairytale
Resene Shocking with Resene Dizzy Lizzy

BOYS
Resene Splish Splash with Resene Dizzy Lizzy
Resene Nemo with Resene Double Spanish White
ReseneTopsy Turvy with Resene Bright Spark
Resene I Spy with Resene Chaos

Or create your own colour scheme with Resene KidzColour here!