Marine style in the interior means white and blue colors in the decoration, striped textiles, the use of various accessories on this theme, including exotic seafood. The romance of travel, combined with a sense of spaciousness, creates a favorable emotional background. Therefore, a nautical-style room for a boy and a girl is considered an ideal option for decorating a nursery.
Why marine style?
If a child loves the sea, is fond of books and films about pirates and sea adventures, and the main topics of his conversation are treasures, cruises and the little mermaids, you can safely decorate a children's room in a marine style for both a boy and a girl. It has no age restrictions. The color palette used to decorate the room in a marine style (see photo in the article) is calming, which is especially important for very mobile, hyperactive children.
The feeling of boundless expanse of water contributes to the free development of the talents and abilities of the child, allows him to more fully reveal himself in everyday life and in communication with peers. And various themed accessories give a sense of solidity and security.
Children's theme
Motifs for the design of a room for a boy in a marine style can serve as:
- ships, yachts;
- pirate accessories;
- cabin interior.
This is the most popular, but far from the only design option. As you can see in the photo, the design of a nautical-style room for a girl can take on the style of a coastal cottage. You can use the theme of the beach or the underwater world and its inhabitants. However, such a division is very arbitrary, it all depends on the nature of the child and his preferences.
In early childhood, for both a girl and a boy, a nautical-themed room can be decorated with a marine life cartoon theme. Depending on who is the child's favorite character, the Little Mermaid, Nemo the fish or SpongeBob can live on the walls of his room. From around age 7-8, a boy's nautical room will be very different from a girl's room.
Zoning
A distinctive feature of the children's room is the fact that it serves as a place for the child to study, play and relax. For each of these activities, a separate zone should be allocated:
- Sleeping area. Depending on the topic chosen, this maybe a bed in the form of a ship for a boy, a bed in the form of a shell for a girl, or a bunk structure with a sleeping place on the second floor. Highlight the sleeping area with calm neutral tones.
- The play area can be placed under the bed, and if the area of the room allows - in a separate area. It stands out in bright, dynamic tones that enhance mood and stimulate activity, and is decorated with various marine accessories.
- Study area. It is best to have a desk by the window. Saves space and looks good table, combined with a window sill.
You can divide the space of a room in a nautical style for a boy with your own hands using plasterboard partitions, installing a shelving with the appropriate decor or photo printing on the ceiling and walls.
Color solution
As you can see in the photo, the boy's room in a nautical style is decorated using white and blue tones.
This combination will be the main one, while the blue component can have different shades - the blueness of the sky, the colors of the sea waves, and so on. As additional accents, you can use a sand, green or steel shade, as well as bright spots of yellow and red - in small quantities and only to highlight some additional interior details. For a boy, it is preferable to choose the color of furniture in a nautical-style room in beige tones or under natural wood. Color solutions depend on the theme of the interior. Design in the style of a seaside cottage or a trip on a cruise ship requirespurchasing lighter furniture. A captain's cabin or a pirate's quarters needs dark-colored furniture.
In wall decoration, as well as when choosing textiles for a nursery, you can use stripes like a vest.
When decorating a room in a marine style for a boy, it is not recommended to use rich dark shades of blue, brown, and black. They have a depressing effect on the psyche and can cause a bad mood.
Walls
If you decide to decorate a room for a boy in a marine style with your own hands, the photos will tell you how best to do it.
It is recommended to start from the walls. It is better if their coating is monophonic or consisting of two colors combined with each other. It can be shades of blue, sand or brown, as well as white. Wall decoration can be wallpaper or paint.
It is allowed to accentuate one wall with the help of marine-themed photo wallpapers. Instead, you can use a panel or hang a lot of shelves with various marine accessories and souvenirs.
If the theme of the interior is the underwater world, wall murals with the image of the seabed are suitable for the walls. If the room is a ship's cabin, a porthole depicting underwater inhabitants or a seascape would be appropriate on the wall.
Floor and ceiling
The floor in the children's room should be covered only with environmentally friendly materials that are not harmful to he alth. Wood is the best cover. But not everyone has the opportunity to getparquet. In this case, you can use a laminate, carpet of a suitable color that will fit into the overall color scheme of the room, carpet or carpet. The ideal option would be a surface with a pattern in the form of a world map or a special game map of the treasure island.
Currently, there are many different ways to decorate the ceiling with drywall, stretch ceilings or photo wallpaper. Imitation of the starry sky, the underwater world, ship bulkheads - all these and any other design fantasies can be realized.
Furniture requirements
Furniture for any children's room must meet the requirements of reliability, practicality and safety. Preference should be given to products of a classic rectangular shape with rounded edges for safety reasons. The nautical-inspired design allows you to install practical furniture that can grow or expand as your child grows.
The best material for children's furniture is natural wood. However, its cost is quite high. In order to save money, you can install furniture made of MDF and chipboard. The use of artificial leather is allowed, in small quantities - plastic.
The main pieces of furniture in the children's room are:
- bed;
- desktop, preferably with cabinet;
- chair with orthopedic back;
- closet for clothes;
- rack, wall or shelves.
Especial care should be taken when arranging a bed.
Bed
The right bed can set the tone for the entire interior. The bed in the form of a ship fits very harmoniously into the marine style of the children's room. It can resemble an old dark wood ship, a light yacht or a cruise ship. The bow of such a ship is usually located at the feet, and the stern is at the head. At the stern, you can place a helm, anchor or a bunch of ropes.
Often such beds are equipped with a mast with yards, linen sails and sea flags. It is possible to decorate the bed with an imitation of side guns, portholes, oars, as well as ropes and metal rings. Such furniture is most often made of wood, sometimes it is sheathed with wood-like plastic in order to save money.
However, the bunk bed is still the most popular bed option.
It can be installed in a room for two children, and for one. The design in a marine style dictates the design of a ladder leading to the second floor, as follows:
- equip with handrails in the form of a ladder;
- make it out of ropes;
- make steps in the form of small cabinets in which you can store toys and all sorts of useful little things.
If the bunk bed is for one child, the space underneath can be used as a play or study space. In the first case, you can place a wardroom there, install a steering wheel, a slide, a sports corner, a hammock. In the second case, they setdesk and bookshelves.
Textile accessories
As you can see in the photo, a nautical-style room requires the obligatory presence of decorative elements made of textiles. These are bedspreads and bed linen with drawings on a marine theme, curtains in the form of sails fluttering in the wind, curtains in the form of a thin fishing net. An unobtrusive element of decor can be a strip in the form of a vest. This option of curtains will help visually change the space of the room.
In the design of the nursery, it is allowed to use some elements in the form of bright color spots that contrast with the general color scheme of the room, for example, sofa cushions or a rug in the play area.
A hammock hanging against the wall fits perfectly into the nautical style and allows the child to relax in it, feel like a sailor or a pirate.
Decorative interior details
A variety of nautical-themed items can be used as additional accessories to decorate a children's room in a marine style, creating a special atmosphere of romance and adventure. These could be:
- pirate chest to store toys in;
- helm, anchor or sea ropes;
- lifebuoy;
- signal flags;
- ship models;
- marine paintings;
- geographic maps or treasure island map.
How decorative items can be used for child development items:
- clock in the form of a compass;
- barometer;
- globe - regular or stylizedold times.
Shells, sea pebbles, corals, an aquarium with fish, as well as various marine-themed souvenirs can be used as decorations.
Design options
Let's take a closer look at some ideas for decorating a children's room in a marine style. If the idea of a ship was chosen for the arrangement, it can be specified - perhaps it is a cabin room or a coast guard post, a pirate cockpit or a ship deck. It depends on this whether the interior of the ship's interior will be recreated in the nursery, or whether the child will sleep on the deck of his ship-bed. For such a room, a blue-white color scheme is used, furniture is finished with dark wood, as accessories are steering wheels, anchors, ship ropes, rope nets and ladders, curtains and draperies in the form of sails.
If the style of a seaside cottage is chosen for the design of a children's room, light colors are used in its decoration - neutral tones with a slight addition of bright accents. The room is equipped with simple light furniture in light colors. We use textiles made from natural materials - cotton and linen. Additional accessories are various seafood - shells, corals, starfish, as well as wicker baskets.
The beach theme in the decoration of the children's room involves the use of bright colors in the design of the room. The room is designed in beige and blue colors, bleached wood furniture is installed in it. For decorating elements, onlynatural materials. For example, you can hang bamboo curtains on the window, lay a sisal carpet on the floor. Beach paraphernalia is used as accessories - hammocks, palm trees, surfboards.
