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Hunnybunny
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Topic: Room colours Posted: 11 February 2010 at 1:54pm |
Sorry wasn't sure where to put this...
But what colour is your baby/toddlers/childs room?
We aren't going to find out what we are having, and will be re-wallpapering the room that will be the "nursery"
So far the other 3 bedrooms have been re-wallpapered white, one has a dark charcoal feature wall, one has a light brown/beigy colour wall, and the other one is plain white.
We can't decide what colour/s to re-wallpaper babys room! We want to keep it neutral (at the moment its wallpaper thats been painted a ugly baby blue-horrible colour!) but don't know how to mix it up to keep it from being plain white!!!
So no pink or blue! Greens, browns, yellows??? I don't know!!
Help us!
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:13pm |
Ours is painted Dulux "Devonport" which is a lime green/butter yellow depending on what light it's in...piccy below  We chose the colour before we found out if they were boys or girls, and it worked well because we could change the "feel" with curtains etc (like we did!)
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:14pm |
Yip, I was just about to say a lime green colour  maybe just one or two walls if you think it would be overwhelming with all four?
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:16pm |
All the rooms in our house are painted 1/2 tea - On the wall of the kids room I have had their names made up on large mdf letters in pink and blue, I also have some winnie the pooh framed pictures on the walls and photoboards. It is neither girly or boyish - quite nuetral. It is the accents in the wall pictures and the furnishings that give it a 'child's room' feel.
Soon they are going to be in seperate rooms so I will get to start redecorating again - wall decals are a great idea too ;-)
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:21pm |
Our walls are papered with a light beige brown, we won't be changing them as the paper is fairly new, we'll change the curtains instead. Will redecorate to the childs taste when they're around 5 and again when they're 12.
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:22pm |
We wallpapered the nursery a green colour, it's probably a little bit brighter than minik8e's. It's the smallest room of the house so will always be used for the smallest family member, lol. The colour looks fantastic with white furniture and we then change bedding / curtains etc to suit either boy or girl
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:27pm |
 minik8e how cool!!
We're just going with an off white colour (creamish) (haven't actually chosen it yet) but we plan to spruce it up if you like with coloured curtains, etc.
Dp doesn't want to force sexism on our baby by making the room pink, although he'll have a hard time trying to avoid that once she starts kindy or whatever!!
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:38pm |
We painted Daniels room orange which may sound gross but its actually really cool and in winter it makes the room so much warmer. It matches pretty much every colour as well.. we wanted something a bit different.
The colour isn't showing up quite as well cause of the settings on the camera but this is Daniels room
And heres an older picture I found on a very nice sunny day..
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 2:46pm |
We used Resene Double Pearl Lustre which is a neutral colour, but nice and warm. I found the resene neutrals chart really good and painted HEAPS of test patches before we decided.
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 3:15pm |
nkap9 wrote:
Dp doesn't want to force sexism on our baby by making the room pink, although he'll have a hard time trying to avoid that once she starts kindy or whatever!!  |
Honestly, do you know how hard it is to find clothes that aren't pink, for a girl???????? I was adamant the girls weren't going to be in pink etc etc and da daaaaa!!! Pink from here to there!! Usually different kinds of pinks (Jade is usually softer more pastel pink and Amber is brighter, bolder pink) but still....PINK!!
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 3:22pm |
We split the wall for our nursery and joint it with a boarder. Heres a couple photos of what i mean. We had no idea on what we were having either.
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 3:25pm |
Our whole house is Resene Napa - light brown/fawny colour
We want to keep it netural so bubs room has all dark furniture and have added colour with paintings and canvas etc
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 4:16pm |
How about a nice duck egg blue?? It goes really nicely with most colours
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 4:27pm |
minik8e wrote:
nkap9 wrote:
Dp doesn't want to force sexism on our baby by making the room pink, although he'll have a hard time trying to avoid that once she starts kindy or whatever!!  |
Honestly, do you know how hard it is to find clothes that aren't pink, for a girl???????? I was adamant the girls weren't going to be in pink etc etc and da daaaaa!!! Pink from here to there!! Usually different kinds of pinks (Jade is usually softer more pastel pink and Amber is brighter, bolder pink) but still....PINK!! |
Hahaha... I always point that out when we go shopping. Actually I got really annoyed in Baby Factory the other day, they had some cute body suits but all the blue ones had "baby boy" written on them and all the pink ones were "baby girl", but the boy ones were rather gender neutral IYGWIM!!
But yes everything is either pink or another shade of pink, red, lilac, yellow... lol And if it's not directly pink it'll have butterflies, flowers, fairies etc on it!!
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 5:06pm |
Hollie's room is a part napa, not sure whether its 1/2, 1/4 etc. Photos of that are on my fb.
Her old room in our rental was white, with a hunter green wall. It looked awesome against either pink stuff or blue stuff, without being to traditional baby, if you get my drift.
Of course this time around I'm aiming for traditional baby a little more. Go figure.
I think keep it in line with the rest of the house, it's easy to personalise a room with decals, curtains etc, and much more convienient to change when the little ones tastes change.
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 5:18pm |
We're putting a pretty buttery yellow wallpaper up in the baby's room (the walls are shot, it would take too much work to get them up to a paint standard). It's nice and light and sunny-feeling, and will be good for a boy or a girl. It would also be fine for a spare / older kids room, so when we sell the house it won't look completely 'nursery-ish'.
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 5:36pm |
Oooh some nice colours there, I'll have to show DH!
We are looking at doing 3 walls white, with one wall feature wall. Just cos it goes with the rest of the house sort of, and it means we can get white/cream paper out of the cheap bin
As it is, we are looking at $500-$700 to re-wallpaper one room, our bedrooms are HUGE! And have really high ceilings (it's a older house) so I think I only want one expensive wall!!!
I like all these colours, some nice ones I hadn't thought of, that can be easily swayed blue or pink!!
Do any of you guys have black-out curtains? Or waste of time?
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 5:44pm |
We have a roller blind black out behind the curtains and love it, we can have that done and the curtains open during the day on really hot days and it cools the room down as theres a small gap on each side so the breeze goes through and then at night its lovely n dark
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Posted: 11 February 2010 at 6:44pm |
We have calico roman blinds behind the black out curtains, so we have the curtains open during the day so it's not pitch black but not straight sunlight either, and then at night it's pitch black - so there's a noticeable difference between night and day for the girls.
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Posted: 15 February 2010 at 4:58pm |
We wanted our nursery to be fairly neutral. We knew we were having a girl but figured if we paint it neutral, we wont need to change it if number 2 baby is a boy.
We chose Resene Eighth Malta, we liked it so much we've actually ended up painting the rest of the house in the same colour! Then to add colour, we just got some jungle themed wall transfers that are easily removable so we can change them once she gets a bit older.
Sorry - for some reason the pic keeps coming out quite large even tho I'm resizing it in photobucket to make it smaller..........
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