NURSERY COLOUR SCHEME

Hi,

Our baby girl is due in Jan and my wife and I are thinking of decorating the spare bedroom into a welcoming nursery.
I (being the more adventurous) am suggesting a pale pastel yellow/ mint/ lilac scheme. However, my wife wants to play safe, she's afraid that 3 colours are too much.
Please advise what is best, bear in mind that bright/ dark colours are not our friends.
Thanks

Hi Uel
I think your wife's right. Although the room might look nice with three colours when you first do it, you'll be amazed at how much clutter you soon accumulate when you have a baby so something simple might be better. Plus on top of all the baby paraphernalia, there will be mobiles, pictures, books, toys and millions of other little bits and bobs that well-meaning relatives and friends think your little one will love. And I don't know what it is with designers for children's kit, but everything is brightly coloured and screaming out for attention... so less is definitely more!!!
Jane

Hi Uel, I think you're going to have problems... I suggest you decorate the room using 2 of your preferred colours and use the third colour for soft furnishings- curtains and bedding. I personally don't like yellow and green for a nursery but I do know lilac works well- my daughter's room is done in Laura Ashley's pale crocus with a slightly darker shade wallpaper on the bottom. The 3 colours you suggest were feaured on a Care Bear some while ago.

Tricks to get this to work would be find a fabric you like with the 3 colours you want to use (you could make curtains in it to tie the scheme together) and get the paint mixed to match.
I would paint the walls all one colour, or top a paler shade.

I don't think you will find paint colours in the standard ranges that will work together - but you could have a tinker on the Dulux website with their mousepainter. The closest I could get was Willow tree (walls), Timeless (curtains) and one of the purples or lilacs for the rug. I don't know what colour your furniture or floorboards are.

Good luck and let us know how you get on!
Trisha

i would go for two diffrent shades of yellow and the mint in a matt finish and white satin finish for wood work