Designer's advice on choosing a ceiling for a nursery
A few tips for choosing wisely:
- You should choose materials that are safe for health, environmentally friendly and practical, that do not cause allergies, accumulate dust as little as possible and can withstand dry and wet cleaning.
- When choosing a color, you need to pay attention not only to the general style of the nursery, but also its effect on the child’s psyche and mood.
- Multi-level models of complex shapes are not advisable to use in small rooms; such designs are more suitable for rooms with high ceilings.
- The location of the lamps plays an important role; they must create uniform illumination of the entire children's room.
Lighting sources in the children's room
When installing a stretch ceiling in a nursery, lighting plays a very important role. Properly installed light sources illuminate the room well, especially the child’s workplace, the central part where he plays. For these purposes, it is practical to use lamps with a brightness control, which makes it possible to create soft lighting in the evening and at night.
Choosing a multi-level ceiling is the right decision if the goal is to increase the child’s self-organization; such a ceiling divides the children’s room into areas for relaxation, play and study. In this case, the light sources are installed above the work table and above the play mat; the recreation area can be decorated with a floor lamp.
Types of ceilings
There are several types of ceiling coverings used to decorate a nursery.
Tensioner
A fairly common finishing option, which provides the opportunity to create a perfectly even and smooth coating and show your imagination.
Suspended plasterboard ceiling
A variety of design options using plasterboard allow you not only to decorate the ceiling in an unusual way, but also to zone the space and create uniform or partial lighting in it.
The photo shows a white plasterboard ceiling in the interior of a children's room.
Wooden
A ceiling made of lining or laminate is a popular option for children's rooms. It is made from natural materials and is therefore considered environmentally friendly, practical and aesthetic.
The photo shows a children's room in the attic with a wooden ceiling in blue tones.
Ceiling tiles
Perfect for rooms with low ceilings. It is characterized by its low price, simple installation and can be easily painted in any color.
Plastic panels
Economical, durable, functional, aesthetic and at the same time very stylish type of ceiling decor.
The photo shows a children's room with a ceiling covering in the form of white plastic panels.
Colored
A classic option that looks simple and concise. The only disadvantage of this coating is that over time the paint may crack.
Fabric ceilings
When finishing ceilings with fabrics, the following types of coatings are used:
- use of fabric wallpaper;
- covering the ceiling with decorative fabrics;
- fabric stretch ceiling.
Wallpaper, in this case, is most often found in girls' bedrooms, decorated in Baroque or Rococo style. The material used must have a dense base and be laid on a flat wooden surface. Thanks to the use of fabrics as ceiling decor, the room takes on a special three-dimensional look.
For a boy, therefore, you can arrange a marine theme, in the form of waves or sails. Girls will love the beautiful clouds made in the form of folds of fabric. Together with the selected lighting, such a room will forever remain in the child’s memory.
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The fabric material is chosen to be translucent (cambric, voile, chintz) to eliminate the darkening effect. Both plain and colored fabrics are used as a background.
The bright design of the room will always orient its occupant to a cheerful mood. We discussed all the advantages of suspended ceilings for children's rooms a little higher. The main thing here is to choose high-quality durable fabric that will delight you and your child for many years.
What types of ceiling structures are there?
The main types of ceiling models for children's rooms.
Single level
The most popular design, which has an aesthetic and attractive appearance. Such a smooth surface allows you to preserve and emphasize the harmony of the entire interior.
Two-level
They are used not only for decoration, but also for zoning rooms for children of different sexes. These types come in a variety of shapes and sizes and look great in small spaces.
Multi-level
Allows you to visually adjust the space, hide its shortcomings and highlight its advantages. Using a combination of different colors and textures, you can make the interior interesting, creative and unusual.
The photo shows a multi-level ceiling structure in a girl’s nursery.
Wallpaper finishing
Selecting wallpaper, as well as photo printing, is not difficult, based on their huge selection. Like wall and ceiling wallpapers, they are used in different designs. For finishing, various types of wallpaper are used: narrow, wide, non-woven, soft-shaped and others.
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This method provides a huge field for experimentation. Possible combination with a two-level ceiling design, combination with photo printing paper. Wallpaper with stickers and bright neon lighting are widely used.
Texture options
The right choice of surface will help organize the space of the room and maintain the desired style in it.
- Matte.
- Glossy.
- Satin.
The photo shows a glossy beige stretch fabric in a children's interior.
Ceiling color
The most popular colors of ceiling coverings for children's interiors.
White
Visually makes the room larger and more spacious. The white ceiling reflects light well, so the room looks brighter.
Blue
Associated with the sky, space, freshness and lightness, it creates a calm and relaxed interior that promotes a pleasant sleep.
Green
This color is pleasing to the eye, it creates balance in the room and gives it depth, versatility and a summer mood.
Pink
Delicate, fresh and romantic pink tone will make any interior sophisticated and elegant.
The photo shows a glossy pink stretch covering in a girl’s nursery.
Grey
It looks harmonious, laconic and balanced and forms a calm, discreet ceiling design.
Lilac
A pastel lilac shade will bring airiness, notes of coolness and mysticism to the children's room.
Violet
Allows you to create beautiful, delicate and flying interiors. However, in order for a room with such a design to not look cramped and dark, it should have brighter lighting.
Black
It looks elegant, original, presentable and also promotes concentration. With the right and balanced combination with other colors and shades, a black ceiling will give the room an interesting and extraordinary look.
Yellow
Associated with warmth and sunlight, it creates a positive atmosphere in the room.
Blue
The dreamy and cool color of the sea depths brings calm and relaxation to the interior.
The photo shows a boys room with a matte blue ceiling.
Types of ceilings
Tension fabrics are available in matte, satin and glossy films of various colors. Fabric varieties have a small selection of shades, mostly light pastel colors.
Matte
Matte ones look like a plastered or painted surface, do not attract unnecessary attention, do not glare and look natural. Therefore, they can be used for any interior.
Satin
Glossy surfaces reflect surrounding objects and rays of light. On the one hand, this optically adds volume and air to the room. On the other hand, bright glare tires the eyes, so with this type of canvas you need to carefully consider the lighting.
Satin softly reflects light without creating glare. Their surface shimmers with mother-of-pearl, reminiscent of silk fabric. It changes color at different times of the day depending on the light intensity.
Fabric
Due to the manufacturing method, fabric ones can allow air to pass through. Therefore, they are considered more environmentally friendly than film ones. In addition, they are easier to mend in case of a cut.
Design ideas and drawings on ceilings
A variety of ceiling designs can satisfy any fantasy.
With photo printing
Canvases depicting various equipment, nature, comic book characters or cartoon fragments will enliven the room, giving it individuality, originality and uniqueness.
Graffiti
Bright graffiti designs will be in perfect harmony with the nursery’s decor, fit perfectly into the overall design concept and make it unique.
Carved
With the help of patterned perforations in the form of flowers, butterflies, various shapes and spirals, in combination with thoughtful lighting, you can set a certain style for the nursery and create a bright and colorful accent in it.
Starry sky
It looks very impressive and, without a doubt, causes delight. Painted or glowing stars would be appropriate both in a nursery for a newborn baby and an older child.
Sky with clouds
Quite a popular design option. Realistic high-quality image, in combination with or without backlight, creates the illusion of a blue sky with snow-white clouds on the ceiling.
Stickers
Various thematic stickers of different sizes and shapes bring originality to the interior and allow you to create interesting design solutions.
With painting
An artistic painting with a chosen subject will undoubtedly become the main accent in the room. The painted ceiling surface will influence the style of the nursery and add uniqueness.
Multicolored
It is an interesting colorful decor, with the help of which you can not only significantly transform and enliven a child’s room, but also lift the mood and develop the child’s imagination.
The photo shows a multi-colored plasterboard ceiling structure in a children's room.
Space
This design with images of distant planets, galaxies and asteroids will allow a child to feel like an astronaut without leaving the room.
With beams
A ceiling divided by beams makes the interior attractive, aesthetic and authentic, and also allows you to visually change the geometry of the children's room.
In the photo there is a nursery for two children, the ceiling is decorated with blue beams.
Creative stretch ceiling with photo printing for the nursery
Each parent and child can create their own unique style in the nursery and express their abilities by creating their own ceiling. Modern printing allows you not only to choose a template design, but also to apply the child’s drawing on PVC canvas, or any other picture. This could be a reproduction of a famous painting, a memorable photo, a magazine illustration, and so on. The ink is moisture-resistant, safe and does not fade. The cost depends on the size of the drawing.
Lighting
It is one of the most important components of comfort.
Backlit
LED RGB lighting will allow you to change or adjust the appearance of the room, raise the ceiling or increase the space. With its help, you can easily adjust the lighting of the room and create the desired mood and comfort in it.
Chandeliers
The unique design of the chandelier will highlight the ceiling and make its appearance more harmonious and complete.
Spotlights
They create the highest quality lighting to create a comfortable atmosphere and relaxation. They visually enlarge the room and make it taller.
The photo shows a white ceiling structure with spotlights in the nursery.
Soaring
A ceiling with an LED strip that creates a luminous edge, resulting in a floating effect.
Shapes of children's figured ceilings
The most popular forms of ceiling structures:
- Geometric figures. Circles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses and other shapes, located strictly in the center or randomly, change the space, add dynamism to the interior and make it clearer and more complete.
- In the form of a wave. Smooth transitions create a calm, laconic and balanced design of the ceiling space.
- Complex figures. Designs in the shape of the sun with rays, butterflies, flowers and others will make the room truly extraordinary, exclusive and unique.
Photos of ceilings for girls
Designs in gentle and restrained colors, harmoniously combined with the overall atmosphere of the interior, curtains, furniture or floor and wall coverings, will give the girl’s room a fairy-tale and magical feel.
Ceiling design ideas for a boy
Ceilings with a glossy or matte surface, decorated with various photo prints, stickers or thematic illustrations with your favorite characters, will create a bright accent in a boy’s room and embody the most daring design ideas.
What is a stretch ceiling
In a low room, the optimal solution would be to install a single-level structure.
Tension fabrics appeared later than suspended plasterboard structures and found their niche among numerous finishing methods. Yes, this is the most expensive option and the difficulty lies in the fact that you cannot make the canvas yourself or install it yourself.
But the variety of colors, textures and the ability to apply images of any complexity through photo printing make this design method one of the most popular today.
Stretch ceiling for children's room with LEDs
The structure is a canvas mounted on an aluminum frame or plastic profile (baguette), which in turn is attached at any distance from the existing ceiling.
Gloss enhances the effect of the sky and visually increases the height of the room
The very concept of placing a tension fabric under an existing ceiling arose a long time ago. The ceilings of the living quarters of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians were decorated with fabric. And in the 17th century, a technology arose in Armenia in which a frame was installed with fabric stretched over it, previously impregnated with a lime or chalk composition.
This finishing method faded into the background with the advent of modern technologies and materials, but it was remembered after 1967, when a new light, thin, but very durable material appeared - PVC film. By combining ancient technology, new material and improved methods of fastening the canvas, it was possible to create a unique coating.
The blue color scheme is universal and suitable for children of any gender.
Important! One of the advantages of tensile structures is their quick installation and the absence of the need for preparatory work.
Tension fabric can be PVC, fabric or satin. Each type has its own positive and negative sides, as well as requirements for operating conditions.
Thus, a PVC film sheet can have either a glossy, almost mirror-like surface or a matte surface, while a fabric sheet can only have a matte surface. Satin combines the positive qualities of PVC and fabric ceilings - it does not reflect or glare like gloss and does not absorb light like a matte canvas, but softly diffuses it.
A voluminous figure with glossy inserts will become the main accent in the room
As for operating conditions, PVC film can be used in rooms for any purpose with different levels of humidity, and fabric can only be used in “dry” rooms, since it is not moisture resistant.
Two-level stretch ceiling
By design, suspended ceilings in a children's room can be single- or multi-level. The method of its fastening, which involves choosing the height of the structure, gives it all the positive qualities of suspended structures: masking communications and electrical wiring, the possibility of installing additional heat and sound insulation material, the possibility of organizing built-in lighting.
Features of the tension structure
To prevent the decoration of the walls and ceiling from merging, you can install a white tier between them.
The tensile structure has some general positive properties:
- When using any tension fabric, a flat, smooth surface is formed;
- PVC fabric is moisture resistant, and therefore can be used in damp rooms, but fabric sheets are still recommended for a children's room, since they are breathable, unlike PVC film;
- The design is arranged in such a way that an air gap is formed between the canvas and the ceiling, providing heat and sound insulation. If necessary, appropriate material can be placed inside the structure;
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- When installing the structure, you can choose the height at which it will be located - this allows you to implement any design idea to create a multi-level system or adjust the height of the room;
- The suspended structure reliably hides all communications passing under the ceiling and surface imperfections - interpanel seams, beams and other protruding structures, ventilation equipment, electrical wiring, pipes;
Photo printing on a single-level ceiling
- The tension fabric has an antistatic effect;
- There is no need to carry out labor-intensive and financially expensive preparatory work before installing the tension fabric, and the installation process itself takes record time and is not associated with the formation of pollution and debris;
- When choosing between a tension fabric and a plasterboard suspended structure, you should take into account the fact that a PVC tension fabric can protect a room from flooding from above, thanks to its strength and ability to stretch while maintaining its integrity;
Rainbow sky supported by a bright accent wall
- Any tension structure can be equipped with built-in lighting, but if holes for lamps are cut in plasterboard during the installation process, then for a tension fabric they are cut out at the manufacturing stage. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a layout of lighting fixtures in advance and give this information to the surveyor.
Zoning children's complex layout
Separately, it is worth noting the nuances of using tension fabrics:
- Stretch ceilings for a children's room can be manufactured and installed by specialists from the manufacturer, who will subsequently carry out its maintenance;
Important! Since the tension fabric is made in accordance with the parameters of a particular room, it is recommended to invite a measurer from the company that will install the structure.
Complex shape of the structure
- The height of the room will be reduced by at least the thickness of the frame profile. If the room is not high, then you can install a light, glossy single-level ceiling, which will visually “raise” the room;
- The stretch fabric requires careful handling. Despite the fact that PVC film is very durable and can withstand the pressure of a significant mass of water, it is vulnerable to sharp objects. It is very easy to tear and this is the main drawback, since the canvas cannot be repaired, but only replaced with a new one.
The laconic design allows you to emphasize the complex shape of the plasterboard niche by the window
Important! When choosing a design, you should take into account that a bright and creative design may become irrelevant in a few years, and remodeling will require considerable financial costs. Perhaps some will consider it a rational decision to choose a laconic traditional design.
Instructions for choosing a design and color scheme will be given below.
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The original design of ceiling products, corresponding to the specific design of the room, will emphasize the features of the interior and will allow you to divide the space into functional zones. Various solutions will help create a comfortable indoor environment where it will be pleasant to relax and study.
Requirements for finishing the ceiling surface
There are several important rules that you need to remember when developing the interior design of the room where the child will live, and when choosing finishing materials:
- Environmental safety and harmlessness
. This is one of the main parameters and should definitely be taken into account when deciding what ceiling to make in the nursery and what building materials to buy in this case. It is very dangerous for a child’s growing body to stay for a long time in a room where there are objects that release substances harmful to health into the surrounding space. It is for this reason that when choosing a material for a ceiling, you need to purchase one that is labeled “environmentally friendly.” The health of a child is more valuable than the money saved when buying a cheap and low-quality product. In addition, there are now many children with allergies, whose bodies immediately react to the presence of an allergen that worsens their well-being. - Color
. Plays an important role when developing a ceiling design in a children's room. The interior of this room should not be dull and boring. At the same time, too bright walls and ceilings can negatively affect the child’s mental state - he becomes hyperactive. When choosing a color scheme, it is better to stick to the so-called “golden mean”. - Zoning
. In this room, the child not only relaxes, he plays, sleeps, and does homework in it. It is for this reason that it is advisable to delimit the space in it by creating separate zones. The ceiling in the children's room plays a significant role in this. - Practicality of coatings
. Children often behave actively during games, and therefore this circumstance should be taken into account when choosing finishing materials. Since stains on the ceiling and damage to the ceiling covering are not uncommon, you should not install a ceiling structure that can be easily damaged. - Cost of materials
. The more expensive the repair cost, the sadder it is for parents to see that its surface has become unusable during entertainment. To save on decorating the ceiling in the nursery, many property owners try to do this work themselves.
If you will be finishing the ceiling surface yourself, when purchasing materials you need to pay attention to how easy they are to process. Before making a final decision on what kind of ceiling to make in the children's room, it is advisable to consult with your child.
The more he enjoys being in this room, the more willing he will be to play and also relax in a comfortable environment for him.
Examples in various styles
Photo examples of successful design of a children's room in various styles.
- Loft.
- Sea style.
- Neoclassical.
- Modern.
The photo shows a two-tone black and white ceiling in a teenager's room in a modern style.
The photo shows a loft-style ceiling with sloping beams.
