Choosing Colour Of Your Baby Room

A couple of basic baby nursery colour pointers:

• Boy's nursery rooms can cope with any colour on the colour wheel except shades of pink and purple.
• Girl's nursery rooms can accommodate any colour including blue and red as long as they do not dominate the colour scheme.
• Gender neutral nurseries should not have pink or purple or a predominance of blue or red in their colour schemes.
• To be on the safe side, keep your baby nursery colours simple with two main colours and an accent colour or two. Obviously this is a guideline, not a rule - if you feel adventurous go to town! Think about using one colour for the lower half of the wall and another colour for the top half with a border between the two, or consider three walls in one colour and one focus wall in a second colour.
• Keep your main nursery colours within the same family, for instance bright with bright, pastel with pastel, muted with muted.
• Add interest by adding splashes of accent colour from another family. For example, use muted shades of blue on the walls and add splashes of bright red around the nursery in the form of cushions, lamp shades etc.