There can be no trifles in raising a child. Everything is important: what books he reads, who he communicates with, what he is interested in and, of course, what room he lives in. If the renovation in the nursery is made in accordance with his interests, then he will be comfortable in it and, at least, the color of the walls will not irritate him. When you choose wallpaper for a teenager's room, try to find a compromise: listen to his opinion and do not ignore the advice of experts.
What you need to know about decorating a teenager's bedroom?
Wallpaper in a children's room for boys and girls should preferably be:
- natural;
- washable;
- not too expensive.
Of course, we are not talking about saving money on children, but you need to understand that your child’s preferences may change within a couple of months after the renovation is completed, so wallpaper for a teenager should be from the middle price category. Be prepared that you will have to remove this beautiful wallpaper before it fades.
In a room for a child under 14 years old, it is better to put up wallpaper from which watercolor paint, plasticine, and hand marks can be easily washed off. If you have a boy, then it is better not to buy white wallpaper - they will quickly get dirty.
The main thing is that the wallpaper “breathes” and does not emit harmful substances, because the child spends a lot of time in the room, and none of the parents would want him to inhale harmful fumes or smell mold.
Today, stores offer different types of wallpaper. The safest of them are paper ones, but they quickly fade and become unusable. More durable - non-woven wallpaper. They also contain natural fibers, which makes them harmless. Also, in a nursery, one of the walls is often covered with photo wallpaper, which is not afraid of moisture and does not lose color over time.
The child can choose absolutely any drawing. Photo wallpapers are often made to order, so if you don’t find wallpaper with a specific character or image in the catalog, it can always be made additionally.
Offer to choose wallpaper for your child’s nursery himself. Let them be too bright, let them have computer game characters on them, or the color combinations seem unacceptable to you. Try not to criticize your son or daughter, but give him the opportunity to make an adult decision for the first time in his life.
Color recommendations
Regardless of gender, wallpaper for a teenager’s bedroom should not be too bright. The color of the walls should have a calming effect on him and not cause aggression. If a teenager still categorically demands bright wallpaper for the walls, you can try to negotiate. For example, you can agree that only one wall will be covered with such wallpaper, but you can try combined wallpaper - the bottom of the walls is bright, and the top is a calm shade.
When we combine several colors in the interior, we can zone even the smallest room. For example, cover the wall where the bed is with wallpaper in deep blue or green colors - this color scheme will soothe the child and help him fall asleep quickly. For the area where there is a table or sports corner, you can choose a brighter wallpaper color:
- yellow;
- orange;
- herbal;
- blue;
- red.
Before buying this or that wallpaper for a teenager’s room, ask how colors affect the child’s psyche. The same red causes aggression. And if your boy likes to play and fight with the enemy in computer games, then you should not paint the walls in his room red.
In the interior of a children's room, it is very important to find a balance between bright and calm tones. If the color of the wallpaper for a teenager’s room is very bright, then the furniture should be pastel colors or gray, beige, or cream. You also need to be very careful when choosing wallpaper designs: they should not be too colorful. In the interior, including a children's room, it is allowed to decorate only one wall with non-uniform wallpaper.
You also need to be careful when choosing dark wallpaper for a teenager’s room. A large amount of black, gray, brown colors will “put pressure” on the child and provoke the appearance of inexplicable sadness and melancholy. If your child often mopes for no reason, pay attention to the wallpaper in his room. If the interior is gloomy, then you urgently need to redo it.
In a small nursery, it is generally contraindicated to glue dark wallpaper. The already small space will become even smaller: the ceiling will drop and the walls will move. Light wallpaper, on the contrary, will make the room visually more spacious. So, for a 16-year-old boy, you can choose a calm, light color scheme: gray-blue or gray-yellow.
What's the best way to combine?
In each specific case, the combination of two or even three partners will be individual.
To begin with, they inspect the room, roughly imagining where the bed, desk, and play area will be located (perhaps even a sports corner). You can highlight with contrasting wallpaper:
- niche;
- projection(s);
- part of the wall between the shelves and the desk;
- furniture corner area;
- head of the bed area;
- part of the room separated by furniture.
For older girls, you can designate the dressing table area as an accent. If the work area is equipped with a rack, in addition to plain wallpaper and one area marked in contrast, you can decorate the inner walls of the racks with a panel with the same print. The sleeping area or resting place indicated by the picture will look original. To repeat the accent wallpaper in another place in the room, you can cut out some fragments and decorate the fronts of the closet, cabinet or bed drawers with them.
Wallpaper design
As mentioned above, when choosing wallpaper with patterns you need to know when to stop. To decorate a teenager's room, wallpaper can be as follows:
- plain;
- striped;
- with a geometric pattern.
If you are not ready to do frequent renovations in a teenager’s room, it is recommended to opt for plain wallpaper in neutral shades. He won’t get bored with them as quickly as wallpaper with pictures. If you want to decorate the interior, you can stick images of your favorite cartoon and movie characters or athletes on them. In a girl's room, stickers of butterflies and flowers decorated with sparkles will look good on the wall. White walls are ideal for this decoration. Neutral wallpaper goes well with bright carpeting in the interior.
Modern designers often opt for striped wallpaper. They look very elegant and stylish. For example, wallpaper for a teenage boy can have three stripes: black, white and gray. In a room for children of different sexes, wallpaper in neutral shades is suitable: olive-yellow, green-blue, beige-white. And if you are not ready to cover a room for teenagers with plain bright wallpaper, find striped ones in which one of the stripes will be that color. Then the interior will not be so aggressive, and the children will be satisfied that their parents listened to their opinion and fulfilled the request.
If you want to make your interior unusual and don’t know what wallpaper to choose, you can opt for geometric patterns and prints. Wallpaper with geometric shapes is ideal for a boy. He will probably like bright diamonds, squares and rectangles applied to a neutral background.
When choosing wallpaper for a teenage girl, you can choose a floral print. These can be small roses, cornflowers and daisies, on an olive or blue background. Flowers always look great in bedroom interior design. And even after a year or two, these wallpapers will not lose their relevance, because girls love flowers at any age.
Interior styles
Modern styles are good for a teenager's room. They are quite laconic and bright at the same time, and they look much fresher and more interesting than the hackneyed classics.
Room for a teenager in grunge style
Grunge is an unusual mixture of industrial loft, rustic country and garage romance. Such a room will become a real refuge from the outside world for a teenager.
From the loft, grunge adopted raw surfaces, concrete walls, and brickwork. From country - good quality cozy furniture. This interior perfectly combines deliberate negligence and thoughtful neatness: just what a teenager needs.
Room for a teenager in high-tech style
Most teenagers are partial to modern technologies, which means that high-tech cannot be ignored. Futuristic elements, gloss, chrome, metal, glass, LED lighting - the room can be turned into a real spaceship
And at the same time, high-tech is very practical, functional and laconic. These are modern storage systems, hidden and built-in elements, plenty of light and maximum space.
Room for a teenager in a modern style
Contemporary is a quirky, eclectic modern style that blends classics with technology. It uses simple and laconic forms with lines, but unusual textures and accents.
This style is an excellent basis for experimentation. To refresh the interior, it is enough to update the decor: pillows, curtains, framed photographs, decorations.
Scandinavian style room for a teenager
Scandinavian minimalism is equally loved by both adults and children. Natural materials, wood, soft textiles, rugs, fluffy carpets, cozy deep armchairs and creative crafts triumph here.
This interior will delight teenagers who like to spend their free time reading their favorite book, drawing or doing handicrafts. It is difficult to find a style that would be cozier and more comfortable.
Room for a teenager in eco-style
Eco-style is natural materials, light shades, an abundance of light, soft textures and a lot of living greenery. Exactly what residents of modern megacities need for recreation. In such a room it is always pleasant to spend time and breathe easily.
Wood, rattan, wicker, bamboo, and reed are used for furniture. Textiles are natural, with a rough texture. And decorative florariums, flowerpots, and climbing plants will teach a teenager to take care of the world around him.
Wallpaper in a girl's room
Some people mistakenly believe that a room for a teenage girl should be decorated in pink. In fact, a large amount of this color begins to irritate over time. If you have already made a room for a newborn in bright pink colors, be prepared for the fact that in the girl’s room you will already have to change the color scheme.
It is recommended to use light shades when decorating a room. It can be olive, beige, creamy, sand, blue. Pink can also be present in the interior, but in small quantities.
The choice of wallpaper color and design depends on your daughter's temperament. If she is a dreamy and romantic person, one of the walls or some part of it can be covered with pink wallpaper. They will go well with sky blue wallpaper.
If your child is energetic and active, then the color of the wallpaper may be brighter. In such an interior there is a place for orange and yellow colors. If a girl loves creativity: she draws, embroiders or writes poetry, the wallpaper can be completely or partially gold. It is this color that promotes creativity and inspires.
The main thing is not to forget a simple rule: the older your child, the less bright the wallpaper should be. If she is 15-16 years old, then you should not make the walls bright yellow, orange or green.
To decorate a girl's room, you can use wallpaper with a geometric print.
Stripes will fit into any interior, but with large patterns everything is not so simple. They will only look good in spacious nurseries, and it’s better to immediately abandon the idea of wallpapering a small nursery with large butterflies or flowers.
Provence
The amazing softness of the Provencal furnishings is in close connection with simplicity and elegance. The style perfectly matches the image of a bedroom for a teenage girl. Here it is easy to create a marshmallow atmosphere, loved by young ladies.
Provence looks airy and elegant and does not overload the interior. The option is not excluded for small rooms.
Wallpaper in a boy's room
Boys tend to be more active, so the color of the wallpaper should calm them down a little. To decorate a boy's nursery, it is better to use shades of blue, gray and green, but to prevent the interior of the room from being boring and dull, there must be bright accents. For a boy's room, orange, burgundy, yellow, and grass colors are suitable.
To create a brutal interior, you should play with textures. So, plain wallpaper can be combined with brick, metal, or gray stone wallpaper. In a boy's room, be sure to make the wall a neutral color. A child can glue posters of their favorite sports team or images of modern racing cars onto it. Photo wallpapers depicting a city or graffiti, also with abstraction, will look good in a boy’s room.
Bedroom for children of different sexes
A difficult task faces parents whose son and daughter live in the same room. They need to create an interior in which children will be equally comfortable. It is better to immediately abandon the idea of delimiting space using wallpaper of different colors.
To prevent children from quarreling, invite them to choose a neutral wallpaper color: beige, olive, sand. But furniture, textiles and accessories can be selected individually for each person. For example, a girl should have a bedspread and pillows in pink and purple colors on her bed, and a boy should have blue and green ones.
It is better not to decorate a room for children of different sexes with wallpaper with large designs. An ornament that a teenage boy likes will soon begin to irritate a girl and vice versa. In the room, each of the children should be comfortable doing homework, playing, doing creative work and sleeping.
Choosing the right wallpaper for a child’s room is as important as buying a child a good table, a modern computer or a bed with orthopedic mattresses, but if the last word in the purchase of furniture and equipment should remain with the parents, then the child can decide what kind of wallpaper he wants to live in the room with myself. Don't be afraid to experiment with nursery decor. The child will grow, his interests and preferences will change, and in a couple of years he will want the children's room to have a completely different interior.
Loft
Industrial style is often preferred by young men for their rooms. Such a bedroom for a teenage boy ideally matches the inner world of most young people.
It combines negligence with the pursuit of perfection. The interior has a rebellious spirit. The presence of brickwork or a roughly plastered wall will be the highlight of the design. It is permissible to use imitation materials in a nursery.
Particular attention should be paid to furniture. It is recommended not to use typical items. Furnishing elements can be created independently or made to order.
