Kids' Corner from Your Home and Garden magazine
This bold, contemporary wall feature allows your teenager to give their space a unique, customised look using their choice of three colours. Here, we’ve decorated with a teen girl in mind with navy, vibrant orange and lilac.
This colour-blocked feature wall is bold, graphic and just a little unexpected. We’ve created it for a teenage girl’s room, but it could easily be adapted for a boy’s space. This fabulous colour palette of navy, orange and lilac is strong but does not feel overpowering when limited to a single wall.
This would make a great shared project, with your teen taking the lead in choosing the colours. One approach is to start with an item they really love – a cushion, print, bedding, rug, etc – and draw colours from that. Our starting point was the Shhh! pillowcase. The bedlinen, cushions and rug were chosen to tie into this scheme, creating a cohesive look, with a smattering of dots for a touch of pattern.
Get creative with some Resene testpots. These on-trend artworks were created by simply painting some A3 sheets of cardboard in the three feature-wall colours. Then it was just a case of cutting out hexagons and the letters to spell HELLO using a craft knife, gluing them onto backing card, and popping them into inexpensive frames. Simple, quick to make and very effective.
Stuck for artwork ideas? Try your child’s name or a favourite saying. Crosses or overlapping circles would work equally well as pattern designs
“This feature wall would make a great shared project, with your teen taking the lead in choosing the colours and helping to measure, mask off and paint...”
Base colour on wall, Resene Half White Pointer; floor colour Resene walk-on in Resene Half White Pointer; large block of navy in Resene Blue Night; rectange on top of navy block in Resene Big Bang; lilac block in Resene Flower Power.
Give some plain wooden storage boxes a fresh look by painting them in the three colours of your chosen colour scheme. These stackable boxes are great for storing nail polish, lipgloss, hair accessories, necklaces and so on.
Created and styled by Vanessa Nouwens. Photography by Melanie Jenkins.
Kid's Bedroom Decorating Ideas
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