Month: October 2021

Creating a space for your little one to grow and sleep in is an exhilarating experience. Compared to older kids who have a say in how their room will look like, babies let you reign supreme in the decorating process. Decorating a nursery is a fantastic pet project where you can pull all the strings and enjoy the creative outcome.

The nursery is where your baby will likely be spending most of his time. Thus, it would help if you strived to make the atmosphere inspiring, calming, fun, in addition to making it comfortable and functional.

From picking fun furniture to choosing the right kids wallpaper, we have narrowed down some of the essential steps and considerations into three easy points. Read on to find out how to make the best nursery for your newborn.

Decide on key furniture pieces

Think of the usual – cots, changing tables, highchairs, wardrobes, toy storage, and a chest of drawers. You can even add in a rocking chair for mommy to roost in while she’s feeding.

At the same time, you can also try to spruce up your furniture types and styles. For example, the crib doesn’t have to be a basic design or colour. You can achieve many looks – rustic, floral, cartoonish – just by playing around with the furniture.

Going for a nautical theme? Why don’t you get a crib made to look like a ship or a submarine? If it’s a pink-and-princess theme, perhaps you can get a dollhouse dresser.

These many options will allow you to turn something ordinary into something fun and inspiring. Also, add in some artwork, rug, textiles, books, toys, plushies, and a cutesy crib mobile toy hanger to complete the nursery vibe.

Consider your lighting options

The intensity and value of light in the room will factor in your baby’s sleep and comfort. It’s a plus if the room is ideally situated to receive daytime sunlight.

After all, remember, natural light is a beautiful thing – just remember to control it! To keep sunlight out, especially when your baby is asleep, put up some drapes and curtains.

Consider multiple lighting options – one option being layering your lighting. Aside from the main light source, a.k.a. the ceiling fixture, you can also get a significantly dimmer option like a changing table light or a reading lamp.

And, of course, a nightlight is definitely a must! You can install ‘fun’ lighting, such as LED starlight or twinkling fairy lights, but remember to avoid harsh lights. Lamps can technically be considered a part of your furniture and fixtures, so perhaps you should find ones that fit the aesthetic.

Keep the walls interesting

When considering the design of your kid’s room, wallpaper is a smarter choice over paint or murals since these are ‘transitional’ spaces – babies turn into toddlers, and children turn into teens faster than you can blink.

Removable wallpaper is your best bet as kids evolve their personal taste; it allows you to infuse style that can be removed and changed quickly, saving you time, money, and energy. Plus, Korean or Japanese wallpapers have many designs are brimming with nature vibes – perfect for both a warm or cool tone that’s calming for the little ones.

Due to its versatility in pattern and colour, wallpapers also do much to influence your perception of space. When you choose a light colour, for example, you can make a room appear bigger; when you use patterns with vertical lines, you can make a room appear high-ceilinged.

It’s a matter of preference whether you want to use calming white and pastel colours for your nursery or bold, stimulating, and high-energy colours. And who’s to say walls are the only surfaces where you can let your creativity go wild? Perhaps you can paint the wall a monochromatic hue and then have fun with the ceiling – babies are on their backs a lot, after all, so they’ll see the ceiling most often.

Conclusion

The nursery is meant to balance form and function. At the end of the day, you should focus on making sure it’s practical and easy to use. It would also be helpful for you to go by a philosophy – in this case, “Go as They Grow”.

Remember that as much as you want to stop the time, the nursery is a transitional space that will soon turn into a bedroom, spare room, or another useful area as your child grows up.

When it comes to flooring options, homeowners and commercial space managers have plenty of options to choose from: regular tiles, wood flooring, and vinyl flooring, to name a few. However, there is another choice that most people aren’t aware of － carpet tiles.

Get to know what this type of flooring offers and why they may be the ideal choice for your next project.

Carpet tiles, explained

Carpet tiles are essentially modular or square carpets that have been cut from single rolls and can be fitted together like a puzzle piece to make up a carpet. Apart from the regular square, carpet tiles also come in various other shapes, like triangles and hexagons. However, note that using tiles that sport these uncommon shapes adds more complexity and increases overall costs.

For everyday commercial environments like bars and restaurants, carpet tiles are a prevalent flooring choice. Carpet tiles also serve as a perfect substitute for wall-to-wall carpets in nearly any situation that doesn’t require unique customisation. Moreover, carpet tiles are easy to install and maintain, last a long time, and share the same qualities as a single-piece carpet.

Key advantages of using carpet tiles

1. Cost and time savings

Thanks to their smaller size, carpet tiles are significantly easier to lift, carry, move, and install compared to single-piece carpets since they can be stacked on top of each other and passed through tight spaces with ease, such as elevators.

In addition, there is less waste when using carpet tiles because there is a lot less cutting required during installation, a crucial advantage when renovating rooms full of nooks and odd corners. As such, if a project is on a tight schedule or budget, the cost and time savings of using carpet tiles are invaluable.

Throw in rolls of wallpaper (with gorgeous designs from Japanese to Korean wallpaper to boot) – it’ll help speed up the renovation process further and even beautify a household. Besides, with proper maintenance you can keep your wall coverings clean and long-lasting.

2. Easy to remove and replace

Besides ease of installation, carpet tiles are also dead simple to remove. Another extremely convenient benefit of the modularity of carpet tiles is that whenever damage, spillage, or wear and tear occurs, only the affected areas need to be removed and individually replaced, not the entire piece.

Also, whenever access to the subfloor is necessary, this piece-by-piece removal helps keep things easy and avoids unnecessary disruption to the regular flow of foot traffic.

3. Great design flexibility

In some ways, these tiles provide greater design flexibility than wall-to-wall carpets. Thanks to new and continuous improvements to dye technology, carpet tiles can be adorned with a wider range of hues and patterns that just aren’t possible on regular carpets.

Through the application of dyes, after the carpet tiles are cut into modular squares, it is easy to perfectly achieve a design registration that flows seamlessly across all the edges of each tile and even to the surrounding walls adorned by brick wallpapers or other designs. Also, just like in wall-to-wall carpets, carpet tiles can be applied with custom colours or designs to craft a variety of unique environments, limited only by the interior designer’s imagination.

Conclusion

When renovating a space, it’s best to consider all possible options before making a decision. Just like how it’s recommended to check if a wallpaper would fit better for a wall than paint, carpet tiles should also be considered when it’s time to deal with the flooring.