Criteria for choosing curtains for a nursery
The design of curtains for a children's room should appeal not only to the adult household members, but also to the young owner or hostess of the room. When choosing them, you also need to take into account whether the child likes to wake up in the morning in a nursery filled with light, or whether he prefers twilight. Let's consider a number of rules that must be followed when choosing curtains:
- In the room of a child who is at an active age, when he prefers outdoor games or sports activities, you should not hang curtains to the floor. While playing, he can get entangled in them or use them to play hide and seek. The curtains will constantly get dirty. Plus the possibility of the cornice breaking. Short curtains in a children's room are preferable.
- Accessories must not harm the child's health. There is no place for curtain decorations such as beads or pendants in a baby's room. He can tear them off and swallow them.
- Sliding mechanisms should be easy to use, including for a child.
- The fabric for curtains should be natural: linen, cotton. There should be no difficulties when washing and ironing them.
- When choosing colors, you need to take into account the interior of the room and the tastes of its owner. There are a number of shades that are generally better not to use, for example, black, purple.
How to choose?
1. Do not choose thick fabrics and dark colors. To darken the room at lunchtime, you can replace heavy curtains with blinds or Roman shades. Heavy, dense fabrics are too formal for a nursery, accumulate a lot of dirt and require regular washing.
2. The most suitable option is light and airy material. Such textiles allow you to create coziness and fill the room with light.
If you are choosing curtains for a girl’s room, then do not miss our photo selection.
3. A necessary condition for curtains in a nursery: they must be as practical as possible, so that they can be easily removed for washing, dried quickly, and also ironed without problems before hanging them back.
4. An important criterion for choosing fabrics: quality and long service life. In such a room, for example, natural silk is inappropriate, since this material is too easily soiled and is not easy to care for. Choose soft and pleasant textiles. The best options for your child's room are cotton and linen curtains, which can even be cleaned by hand without washing.
5. Consult with your child about preferences in the shade palette. When choosing a color scheme, pay attention to where the windows of the room face - south or north, etc.
You don't have to limit yourself to just one set. If you have several curtains for the nursery, you will have the opportunity to update the interior to suit your mood or a specific occasion - an important holiday, a new season, etc. By updating textiles, you can radically transform the room; your children will like this change, and the interior will be perceived as new.
6. Textiles should be suitable for the decoration of a particular nursery - that is, match the ornaments and colors of the materials in the interior - for example, a children's bedspread. The shades on the walls and curtains can be repeated or be in the same color palette. The patterns on the carpet and fabric may also overlap. Such techniques allow you to create a harmonious atmosphere.
Classic curtains
Modern curtains
Light tulle
Short curtains
Roman curtains
Original options
Pleated curtains
Combination of muslin and rolled
Curtains for a boy's room
Even in childhood, boys are more restrained in expressing emotions than girls. Therefore, their taste preferences are different. A boy will never approve of sickly sweet shades like pink, blue, lemon and others in his holy of holies. On the contrary, he likes neutral colors, marine shades, and the shine of metal.
The restrained nature of the owner of the room is also evident in the choice of the shape of the curtains. Curtains in the minimalist style are preferable: blinds, roller blinds, Roman blinds, Japanese blinds.
The pattern on the curtains should also indicate who exactly lives here. This could be a full-area image of a favorite cartoon or movie character, a portrait of an idol from a favorite football team or musical group, scenes from knightly ballads or science fiction books.
Children especially love modern curtain printing technologies, such as 3D.
Curtains for a girl's room
You can certainly turn around in their choice. Firstly, the choice of shades is much larger than for a boy. They can be rich or light, pastel.
Secondly, the choice of prints for curtains is also huge, starting from cute bears with kittens, ending with patterns that adults will also like: floral print, geometric pattern and others. If you have difficulties choosing a style, it makes sense to turn to the good old classics.
If the owner of the room is a creative-minded person, you can invite her to create unusual curtain organizers. It is enough to sew several pockets of different sizes to the curtain. Now you can place in them everything that should always be at hand: combs, thin children's books, various little things.
Accessories can include flounces, brushes, cords, beautiful grips, and butterflies on magnets.
The following combination looks beautiful and unusual: blue translucent curtains with white tulle, and aquarium fish are placed on them in a chaotic manner. It seems that there is one curtain with fish on the window, and not two.
Tips for choosing colors
White color would be appropriate on translucent fabrics or on curtains (as a background) for patterns and designs.
The photo shows a gentle decoration of the bay window with translucent short white curtains, which combine with the bright accents of the children's room.
Yellow color combined with white or beige will create a modern and stylish interior in a children's room.
Green in any shade (from pistachio to lush grass) will go well with neutral walls and bright decorative items.
Turquoise color is suitable for both a girl’s and a boy’s children’s room. Pairs well with light wood floors and brown and white accessories or designs.
Pink curtains will always look bright and rich in a girl’s room.
Blue or sky color will add airiness to a small nursery, well suited for a sun-saturated room.
The photo shows classic straight blue and translucent white curtains that complement the interior of a children's room for a school-age boy.
Blue in deep shades is suitable for a teenager's room, but not for a baby. When choosing this color for curtains, you need to choose light-colored furniture and decorative items.
Roman curtains
Despite their laconicism and severity, Roman blinds are quite appropriate in a children's room. They even have a number of advantages over ordinary curtains:
- The ability to choose them for windows of any size;
- Functionality, the ability to prevent the penetration of bright sunlight when the child is sleeping;
- Easy to install and dismantle;
- Ease of use.
- Large selection of colors.
General recommendations for choosing curtains
- Curtains should be of a simple style, made of durable material and easy to wash. It is best to choose even curtains with eyelets and decorate them with tiebacks.
- Curtains should not be easily flammable (organza, voile).
- The main color of the curtains in the nursery depends on the location of the windows relative to the cardinal directions (warm shades warm the northern room, and cold shades add freshness).
- The pattern or drawing should be simple (chosen based on the age and gender of the child. To prevent the child from getting bored with the drawing with cartoon characters, it is better to choose wallpaper with a large abstraction, which will contribute to the development of thinking).
- The fastening and cornice must be strong, without sharp objects and small decor (so that the child does not collapse the structure during games and does not swallow decorative beads).
- Modern children's curtains must match the style of the interior.
- Curtains in a children's interior can be of different types, and their combination can be practical (for example, simple curtains and roller curtains let in light and hide the room from prying eyes).
The photo shows a modern design for a teenager’s children’s room, where roller blinds with ornaments fit harmoniously.
Roller blinds
Roller blinds are also popular in children's rooms. They are not only stylish. They do not require any special care. Simply remove, wash, dry and hang again.
The child will definitely show interest in the mechanism of twisting and unwinding the fabric and will take control of the roller blinds. And a teenager will appreciate the way to control the movement of curtains using a remote control.
Since roller blinds are attached around the perimeter of the window opening close to the glass, they do not cover the window sill in the same way as ordinary curtains do. Therefore, it can be used as a desk.
Advantages of roller blinds
Roller blinds have gained popularity for children's rooms due to their advantages.
- They take up extremely little space, freeing up the approach to the window and freeing up the work area on the windowsill.
- Also, if there is a bed or other furniture near the window, then short roller blinds will not interfere, unlike long fabric curtains that intrusively hang over the bed.
- The length to the window sill “saves” the curtains from restless children’s hands with paints and scissors.
- Roller blinds are easily adjustable in length, changing the level of illumination in the children's bedroom.
- A simple way to adjust the height of curtains will be possible even for older preschool children. Moreover, there is an automatic curtain lifting system.
- Roller blinds are universal in style, which means they are suitable for any design of a children's room.
- They do not require washing; dust and stains can be easily removed with a damp cloth.
- Thanks to the characteristics of the material, roller blinds do not fade in the sun, do not deform or wrinkle.
- Roller curtains can be selected for windows of any size.
- They can be used as an independent decor or in combination with regular curtains.
- A variety of colors allows every little owner of his bedroom to choose curtains with his favorite pattern.
Classic roller curtains free up access to the window sill and do not interfere with the nearby table
Blinds
Blinds are modern curtains for a child's room. They are so easy to operate that it will be a real pleasure for a child. When choosing them for the nursery, you can pay attention to the drawing. Again, boys and girls prefer different prints.
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Roller blinds Cosmos for children's rooms
The image of space, planets, galaxies on children's blinds is recognized as a standard option for both boys and girls until adolescence. This design will not only add originality and style to the room, but also with minimal light transmission, creating an atmosphere of nighttime and comfort, which promotes healthy rest day and night. With such curtains, the room will sparkle with new colors, even if the walls are painted boring white or gray.
“Space” curtains will come in handy on attic windows
The material can be made in the calm tones of the night sky with constellations and planets of the solar system, or, conversely, with bright, eye-catching colors of the sun and nebulae.
For example:
A young astronomy lover will love these curtains
When purchasing “space” roller blinds, you should choose blackout fabric, since tulle or medium-density fabric will not look so impressive against the general background and will lose all the colorfulness of the illustration. If you strongly decide to choose a translucent material, then you can choose ordinary stars and their clusters as photo printing.
Blackout roller blinds provide complete shading of the room
Unique examples of interior design for a children's room using roller blinds. Below you can see photos of children's rooms in which universal examples of roller blinds are hung.
Roller blinds can be selected to fit any window size
Roller blinds go well with straight curtains
Open roller blinds are the most affordable
Roller blinds can be fixed in the window opening, on the sashes or above the window
The design of curtains must be selected taking into account the age of the child
As you can see, there are various ideas for a beautiful design of blinds with a roller mechanism; they blend perfectly with the interior, add color and are easily controlled by the owner of the room, regulating the light entering there.
