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The Baby's Nursery Part Two
Planning and Creating This Special Room
By Donna Smith
Baby blue? Chocolate brown? Lime green? The colors available to parents these days are almost as endless as a rainbow. So what's a parent to do? What are the rules of the walls?
There are no rules, says Perera. "The theme would determine the color scheme really, but as far as colors, what's so exciting about modern nurseries is that the traditional rules seem to have gone out the window!" she says. "Pastels were the rule of thumb in the past, but now nurseries are sporting darker shades and vibrant colors." But if you want to go with what's "in," she says today's modern nursery colors are shades of grey, blacks or chocolate browns with vibrant accent colors.
Kosik painted three walls a medium blue color and added a wavy border pattern about two-thirds up the wall in a darker blue. "The fourth wall (the one with a large window) is painted a light lime-green accent color, as is also the inside of the closet," she says. "All of the trim, doors and ceiling is painted white. The carpet is a neutral cool-grey color that was pre-exisiting."
And Kosik added her own touches to the nursery walls. "I re-created similar fish graphics found on their swing in Adobe Illustrator and had them output to a large laser printer and mounted to foam core," she says. "I plan to cut these out and adhere to the walls with 3M wall-safe tape."
One "wall" often over-looked is the ceiling. "I rarely leave ceilings white," says Perera. "I find that the ceiling offers another opportunity to add dimension and color to the room."
Prera says she often does a 50/50 mix of the wall color and white to add a feeling or warmth to the ceiling. "Or go with an accent color that is the same shade or lighter than the walls," she says. "With standard ceiling heights darker ceilings tend create a cavernous feeling."
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