Where to Find Inspiration For Painting a Kid's Room

Painting a kid's room is a fun way to add a little spunk to it. There are plenty of ways to paint a room, and sometimes it can be difficult to decide the best way to paint your child's room. The following are some fun places to find ideas for painting a kid's room.

At your local home improvement store: If you walk to the paint department in your local home improvement store, they likely have someone that sits at a desk there. This person is going to be the paint expert, and they are trained to offer advice and tips. Some home improvement stores have planning or design centers with complimentary professionals that will help you come up with a plan or design for your kid's room. So, take advantage of this free advice. If you are not interested in free advice, you may find that the pictures on the paint chip samples are inspiration enough to help you figure out what you want to do in your kid's room.

In magazines: Home design and decorating magazines are a great place to find painting ideas for kid's rooms. The photos in the layouts of these magazines are of rooms that have been professionally decorated, often with no expense spared. Even if you can't duplicate the room or paint ideas exactly because of your budget, they do make a great source of inspiration. In some cases they will even have simple to follow instructions for how to recreate the look they created. If nothing else they can help you figure out good color combinations, and fun ideas for painting. Fo

example, you may see a room painted as solid color, then painted over with big polka dots for a fun look. Or, you might see a room painted blue with white bubbles painted on top to look like a bath tub, etc. Decorating magazines can be picked up at your local grocery store for under $5, and are a great resource for painting ideas for kid's rooms.

Model homes: Have you ever walked through a model home just to see if they had any decorating tips you could glean? They are a great place to look for paint ideas for kid's rooms. They often use fun designs, and are more daring than you might be on your own, thus you can see that the risks are worth it, or in some cases, not worth it.

Online: The Internet is always a valuable resource when you are looking for ideas or inspiration, no matter what for. You can go online and search photo galleries of kid's rooms, or type in "painting ideas" on a search engine, and spend hours browsing the results.

Ads and flyers: Many promotional ads and flyers for furniture stores have pictures of room layouts that they use to entice buyers and to help them see potential. Often times the little snippet of the wall you can see in the ad is enough inspiration to get you painting fun designs, or using cool techniques.

Design and decorating books: Of course, much like home decorating magazines, books created just for home decorating and design will have a section on kid's rooms, and should offer some great advice on how to paint a kid's room for a fun, fresh, look.

From your child: If you really want great paint ideas for your kid's room that will fit your child, ask your child. They may tell you that their ideal room is painted like a jungle with foliage and animals. They may tell you that as long as it is a certain paint color they do not care, or they may just want to have fun with the walls and paint them multi-colors, striped, etc. Ask your child for their input.

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