When decorating a children's room, choosing a curtain is one of the most important aspects, both for a colorful look and for a child's comfortable sleep during the day. The best solution would be to choose roller blinds for a children's room, which are also called horizontal blinds. Please note that roller blinds are the most convenient to use for children from 5 years old.

Cartoon characters on a roller blind in a children's room
Curtains in a child's room should be attractive, practical and easy to use and maintain.

Design options

Roller blinds are a practical addition to the interior and furnishings of a child's room, especially if the room is designed in a certain cartoon or fairy tale theme. A practical design can be the choice of the child's favorite color scheme, texture or character.

Giraffes on a roller blind in a children's room
Roller blinds can be a stylish decoration for any interior
Children's room design with zebra roller blinds
The color of the curtains can be the same as the shade of the walls…
Blue roller blinds in a children's room with white walls
…Or vice versa, create a contrasting combination

For older children, you can choose a colorful image of a landscape or something related to their interests - birds, animals, plants.

Baby cot near window with roller blinds
For a small room, it is better to choose light curtains that visually increase the area of ​​the room.

Fabrics

The rigidity of the curtain material does not really matter, but transparency and density are another matter.

open roller blinds in the interior of a children's room
For a child's room, it is recommended to choose curtains made of natural fabrics.

When choosing fabric for curtains in a child's room, there are only 3 obvious alternatives:

  • translucent;
  • medium transparency;
  • 100% opacity.

The first option - tulle and other light materials, darkens only by 10-20%, making the room light, while not letting bright blinding rays into the room.

Light translucent curtain on the window of a children's room
A curtain made of thin transparent material will not darken the room

Medium transparency is the most popular option among buyers and only allows 30 to 50% light through.

Open type roller blinds on the windows of a girl's nursery
Medium-weight fabric is suitable for children of all ages, except the very youngest.

And the last option is Blackout, very dense, completely blocking light from the window and darkening the room at any time of the day. Designed for children with a strict regime of full daytime rest. An ideal choice for such institutions as kindergartens and private schools.

Pink roller blinds on the dormer windows of the children's room
Thick blackout curtains are needed in a room for a baby who sleeps during the day.

It is worth paying attention to the original version of roller blinds for children with alternating types of fabric - translucent and blackout (two-layer version). When lowering the curtains, you can adjust the strips of material so that the light enters the room only halfway, or does not enter at all, when the strips of dense fabric cover the back layer of transparent fabric. A clear example can be seen in the picture:

Design of children's room with curtains day night
These curtains are called “Day-Night” or “Zebra”

Roller blinds for a boy's room

For children from 0 to 3 years old, it is necessary to choose funny illustrations like kind cartoon characters, or a gradient of calm, not bright blue and green tones.

Window decoration in a room for a little boy
Children's drawings on the curtain fabric will delight the little owner of the room

Important! You should purchase high-density roll fabrics that will not disturb the sleep of little boys.

Boys aged 6-10 years prefer images of cars, stars, robots and interesting geometric patterns. It is important to remember that the contrast of the curtains with the overall appearance of the room plays an important role, otherwise the child may feel uncomfortable in it and visually feel less space. Here are some successful examples of decorating a son's children's room:

Children's room design with blue curtains
Window decoration in the bay window of a children's room
Yellow stripes on roller blind in boy's room
Roller blind with ornament on the window of a teenager's room

Roller blinds for a girl's room

In this case, the color palette of pink and red shades dominates, but it is worth noting that with bright red blinds, the walls will shine with a reddish hue, which will not make the room attractive to a girl. It is best to take a closer look at striped options, ornaments, floral or intricate patterns. For little girls 0-6 years old, princesses and cats will do, for older girls - sea waves, fruit and colorful prints.

Design of a children's room for little girls
Bright curtain on the window of a room for two preschool girls
Red curtain in a teenage girl's room
Example of window decoration for a school-age girl's room

As with decorating a children's room for young boys, girls aged 0-5 years should choose double-layer striped or thick opaque roller blinds due to deep sleep during the day.

A unique solution would be to choose a design of translucent material that diffuses light, but with a print of dense material, this approach will brighten up the interior and let in a small amount of light. A striking example of this is the following photos.

Striped Roman blinds on the windows in the children's room
Vertical stripes on curtains will visually raise the ceiling of the room
Translucent curtains on the window of a girl's nursery
The horizontal ornament will visually expand the window

As you can see, such roller blinds not only add light and space to the girl's room, but also perfectly complement the overall look of the furniture.

Roller blinds Cosmos for children's room

The image of space, planets, galaxies on children's blinds is recognized as a standard option, both for boys and girls up to adolescence. Such a design will not only add originality and style to the room, but also minimal light transmission, creating an atmosphere of night time and comfort, which contributes to healthy rest during the day and night. With such curtains, the room will sparkle with new colors, even if the walls are painted in a boring white, gray color.

Roof windows with roller blinds space
“Space” curtains will be perfect for attic windows

The material can be made in calm tones of the night sky with constellations and planets of the solar system, or, conversely, with bright, prominent colors of the sun and nebulae.

For example:

Telescope in the interior of a children's room
These curtains will appeal to a young astronomy enthusiast.

When purchasing "space" roller blinds, you should choose blackout fabric, since tulle or medium-density fabric will not look as impressive against the general background and will lose all the colorfulness of the illustration. If you insistently decide to choose a translucent material, then you can choose ordinary stars and their clusters as a photo print.

Teepee for play in children's room with roller blinds
Blackout roller blinds will provide complete shading of the room

Unique examples of children's room interior design using roller blinds. Below you can see photos of children's rooms in which universal examples of roller blinds are hung.

Design of a nursery for a newborn
Roller blinds can be selected to suit any window size
Yellow curtains in the interior of a children's room
Roller blinds go well with straight curtains.
Open type roller blinds in a nursery for a little boy
Open roller blinds are the most affordable
Map on the roller blind in the children's room
Roller blinds can be fixed in the window opening, on the sashes or above the window.
Interior of a girl's room with pink walls
The design of the curtains should be chosen taking into account the age of the child.

As you can see, there are various ideas for beautiful design of roller blinds, they fit perfectly into the interior, add colors and are easily controlled by the owner of the room, adjusting the light entering it.

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