Colourful Bedrooms for Kids
Kids love colour and decorating a bedroom for a young child can be a fun way to incorporate bold and primary colours in ways other than painting walls.
Kids love colour and decorating a bedroom for a young child can be a fun way to incorporate bold and primary colours in ways other than painting walls. Use Rust-Oleum 2X or Universal spray paint to paint old furniture, revamp dated furniture, or make your own furniture - and you easily change the colour as and when you want to.
Painting furniture rather than walls allows you to add bold colour to any children's bedroom by painting furniture and layering this with colour fabrics and accessories. Let's be honest, painting over brightly coloured walls can be a time consuming and costly exercise. Painting furniture, on the other hand, means that you can easily paint over with a different colour when the look needs to be changed.
Use Rust-Oleum 2X gloss or Gloss Enamel spray paints for a finish that are tough enough to stand up to everyday knocks and bumps.
An even easier option when painting furniture is to combine bold and primary colours with white. A few accessories painted in red, blue, green or yellow make a children's bedroom pop. Rather than painting an entire cabinet - paint doors and drawer fronts and leave the cabinet white.
Use paint and stencils to add wall art or introduce unique design to furniture, lampshades and fabric. It's easy to use satin spray paint to add designs to plain curtain panels.
You will find the full range of Rust-Oleum 2X and Universal spray paint colours at your local Builders Warehouse, and at around R80 per can, painting or revamping existing furniture is far more affordable than buying new.
When you decide to decorate a child's bedroom with colourful options, making furniture is a project that you can DIY. Use 16mm PG Bison SupaWood for furniture projects and then paint this in your choice of colour.
Modular furniture designs are easy for anyone with basic DIY skills and the right tools. And you can have all your board cut to size at your local Builders Warehouse.
For making children's furniture you will need three basic power tools:
- Drill / Driver to assembly
- Sander for smoothing cut edges
- Jigsaw for cutting curves
With these three basic tools you have everything you need to cut, prepare and assemble children's furniture that provides plenty of storage, is designed to fit into a room, and can be painted in your choice of colour.
You will find plenty of design ideas for children's furniture in our Kid's and DIY sections and downloading the free version of Google SketchUp means that you can design your own furniture, or get in touch with the guys at www.Design-A-Bed.co.za for affordable bedroom furniture.
If you prefer to keep painting to a minimum, shop around for colourful bedding and decor accessories in bright colours to dress up a plain children's bedroom.
What's nice about Rust-Oleum spray paint is that you can use it to paint all types of furniture. Apply to pine bunk beds to update the look for a modern bedroom. Use Rust-Oleum Gloss Enamel spray to paint industrial furniture or steel pieces in colours to match bedroom decor. You can also use Rust-Oleum to spray laminate or melamine furniture. Simply give the furniture a scrub clean, dry and then spray!
