Marine style in the interior implies a white and blue color scheme in the decoration, striped textiles, the use of various accessories on this subject, including exotic seafood. Romance of travel combined with a feeling of spaciousness create a favorable emotional background. Therefore, a room in a marine style for a boy and a girl is considered an ideal option when 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 mermaids, you can safely design a children's room in a marine style for both a boy and a girl. He has no age restrictions. The color palette used in arranging the room in a marine style (the photo can be seen in the article) calms, which is especially important for very mobile, hyperactive children.
The feeling of the vast expanse of water promotes 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 thematic accessories give a sense of solidity and security.
Children's theme
The motives for designing a room for a boy in a marine style can be:
- ships, yachts;
- pirate accessories;
- interior of cabins.
This is the most popular, but far from the only design option. As you can see in the photo, the design of the room in a marine style for a girl can adopt 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 a girl and a boy, a room in a marine style can be decorated on the theme of cartoons about marine life. Depending on who the child’s favorite hero is, the Little Mermaid, Nemo Fish or Sponge Bob can live on the walls of his room. Starting from about 7-8 years old, a room in a marine style for a boy will differ significantly from a room for a girl.
Zoning
A distinctive feature of the children's room is the fact that it serves the child as a place to study, play and relax. For each of these activities, a separate zone should be allocated:
- Sleeping area. Depending on the chosen topic, it can be a bed in the form of a ship for a boy, a bed in the form of a shell for a girl or a two-story structure with a berth on the second floor. Allocate a sleeping zone in calm neutral tones.
- The games area can be placed under a berth, and if the room area allows it - in a separate area. It is distinguished by bright, dynamic tones that enhance mood and stimulate activity and is made out by various marine accessories.
- Study area. It is best to have a desk by the window. Saves space and looks good table, combined with the windowsill.
You can divide the space of a room in a marine style for the boy with your own hands using plasterboard partitions, installing a rack with the appropriate decor, or photo printing on the ceiling and walls.
Color scheme
As you can see in the photo, the marine-style boy’s room is designed using a white and blue gamut.
This combination will be the main one, while the blue component can have different shades - the blue of the sky, the colors of the sea waves, and so on. As additional accents, you can use 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. The color of the furniture in the room in a marine style for a boy is preferable to choose in beige tones or under a natural tree. Color solutions depend on the theme of the interior. The design in the style of a seaside cottage or a cruise ship requires the purchase of lighter furniture. The captain’s cabin or pirate’s cabin needs dark-colored furniture.
In the decoration of the walls, as well as when choosing textiles for the nursery, you can use stripes like a vest.
When designing a room in a marine style for a boy, it is not recommended to use saturated dark shades of blue, brown, as well as black. They depress the psyche and can cause a bad mood.
Walls
If you decide to make 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 compatible with each other. It can be shades of blue, sand or brown, as well as white. Walling materials can be wallpaper or paint.
One wall can be accented using marine-themed wallpapers. Instead, you can use panels or hang many shelves with various marine accessories and souvenirs.
If the theme of the interior is the underwater world, wall murals with a picture of the seabed are suitable for the walls. If the room is a ship’s cabin, a porthole with a picture of the underwater inhabitants or the sea landscape will 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 health. The optimal coating is wood. But not everyone has the opportunity to purchase parquet. In this case, you can use a laminate, a carpet of a suitable color, which will fit into the general color scheme of the room, carpet paths or carpet. An ideal option would be a cover with a picture in the form of a world map or a special game map of the treasure island.
Currently, there are many different ways of decorating the ceiling using plasterboard, 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 design in a marine style allows you to install practical furniture for growth or one that can be increased in size as the 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 items of furniture in the children's room are:
- bed;
- a desktop, preferably with a cabinet;
- chair with orthopedic back;
- wardrobe;
- rack, wall or shelves.
Especially carefully you should approach the arrangement of a berth.
Bed
A correctly selected 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 may 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 - at the head. At the stern, you can put the helm, anchor or a bunch of ropes.
Often these beds are equipped with a mast with shafts, linen sails and sea flags. It is possible to decorate the bed with 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 plastic under a tree in order to save.
However, the most popular bed option is still a bunk bed.
It can be installed in the room for both two children and one. Design in a marine style dictates to design a ladder leading to the second floor as follows:
- equip with handrails in the form of a ladder;
- make her out of ropes;
- make steps in the form of small pedestals in which you can store toys and all sorts of useful little things.
If the bunk bed is designed for one child, the space under it can be used as a play or educational place. In the first case, you can place a wardroom there, install a helm, slide, sports corner, hammock. In the second case, a desk and bookshelves are installed there.
Textile Accessories
As you can see in the photo, a room in a marine style requires the presence of decor elements made of textiles. These are bedspreads and bedclothes with drawings on the marine theme, curtains in the form of sails fluttering in the wind, curtains in the form of a thin fishing net. An unobtrusive decor element can be a strip in the form of a vest. This option curtains will help to visually change the space of the room.
In the design of the nursery, some elements are allowed in the form of bright color spots, contrasting with the general color scheme of the room, for example, sofa cushions or a rug in the play area.
A hammock suspended from the wall fits perfectly into the marine style and allows the child relaxing in it to feel like a sailor or a pirate.
Decorative interior details
As accessories for decorating a children's room in a marine style, various marine-themed items can be used, creating a special atmosphere of romance and adventure. It can be:
- a pirate chest in which to store toys;
- helm, anchor or nautical ropes;
- Lifebuoy;
- signal flags;
- ship models;
- sea paintings;
- geographic maps or treasure island map.
How decorative elements can be used to develop a child’s:
- watch in the form of a compass;
- barometer;
- globe - ordinary or styled antique.
As decorations, there may be shells, sea pebbles, corals, an aquarium with fish, as well as various souvenir products on a marine theme.
Design options
Let us consider in more detail some ideas for decorating a children's room in a marine style. If the idea of a ship was chosen for arrangement, it can be concretized - perhaps this is a cabin room or a coast guard point, a pirate cabin or a ship deck. It depends on 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 and white color scheme is used, the furniture is finished in dark wood, and steering wheels, anchors, ship ropes, rope nets and ladders, curtains and drapes in the form of sails are used as accessories.
If the style of a seaside cottage is chosen for the design of a children's room, its decoration uses light colors - neutral tones with a slight addition of bright accents. The room is installed simple light furniture in bright colors. Textiles made from natural materials - cotton and linen are used. Additional accessories are various seafood - shells, corals, starfish, and 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, it is installed furniture from bleached wood. For decorating elements, only natural materials are used. For example, on the window you can hang bamboo curtains, on the floor lay a carpet of sisal. As accessories used beach paraphernalia - hammocks, palm trees, surfboards.