Creating atmosphere in a child's bedroom
Transforming the space with brush and spray
Creative ideas
There are times in every child's life when that special space, their own private bedroom, needs to reflect their personality and interests as they grow and change.
13-year-olds want to move on from the bedroom decor they liked when they were nine – and nine-year-olds won't be comfortable with baby blue or pink!
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 Transforming the space with brush and spray
You'd be surprised how many changes you can achieve simply through the clever and creative use of paint.
Australian paint manufacturer White Knight Paints has made a specialty of coming up with bright redecorating ideas. Their website at www.whiteknightpaints.com.au is full of practical and innovative suggestions that can help you renovate and rejuvenate your home – with not much more than a colour chart, brush and roller.
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Creative ideas
Before you make any hasty redecoration decisions for a kid's room, get them involved as much as you can.
It's their space, after all – and they should have a hand in the brainstorming.
The Creative Ideas pages of the White Knight website include suggestions like these:
 A chalkboard painted directly on the wall gives budding artists a working surface for their sketches. A damp rag cleans the special chalkboard paint, ready for the next masterpiece.
- 'Glow in the dark’ paint can create astronomical designs – imagine the Milky Way floating up the walls and across the ceiling, gently glowing for half an hour after the lights go out!
- Making your own stencils is a great way to personalise a redecoration project. Here's how
 Capture the base image (spaceships, jungle animals, sports stars, geometrical patterns, anything!) using a digital camera, scanner or photocopier.
- Enlarge it to suit on a photocopier.
- Transfer the drawn shape to the stencil material, leaving enough space around the shape to avoid over-spray (use heavy paper, lightweight card or transparency sheet so the stencil holds its shape when painted).
- Cut out the shape with a sharp blade and tape the stencil in place on the wall. A spray-can gives a good, even result.
When your children are ready for a bedroom transformation, let your imagination (and theirs) run loose – and do it with paint!
Images supplied courtesy of White Knight Paints.
www.whiteknightpaints.com.au
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