Becky, a Sherwin-Williams paint, color and design expert offered up these tips for parents preparing a nursery:
The number one tip I would offer to expecting parents is not to feel pressure to use a light blue or pink. Instead, you can use colors that are already in your home and bring in accents to make it feel like a nursery. This way you can still achieve cohesive, room-to-room color flow.
For those who are cost conscious and maybe don't want to repaint an entire room, you can try stripes in a contrasting color or incorporate a piece of furniture you've painted. Of course, your bedding and drapery will help complete the look.
For those parents that want to be sure everything matches, we have six collections designed to coordinate with Fisher-Price® Baby Gear, as well as specifically designed paint palettes to make selecting color for a nursery or any child's room a bit easier.
Getting ready for baby can be expensive and these ideas are economical — all you need to do is tape and paint.
We painted our new babies room a BRIGHT blue and I LOVE it! Once the room is all done, I'll post some pictures!
Are you in the middle of a home/room renovation project too? Did you know that this week is National Painting Week!? Now through the entire week, Sherwin-Williams will offer design, color and painting ideas at www.NationalPaintingWeek.com. Each day has a designated color with a fun project idea to try in your own home. You can also find completed projects from other bloggers in honor of National Painting Week.
In celebration of this week, Sherwin-Williams is going to give one of my lucky readers FIVE gallons of free paint! If you'd like a chance to win, just fill out the easy Rafflecopter entry form below. Don't see it? Click "read more" to bring it up! Good luck!
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I would love and need to paint our master bedroom. I would love to do a linen look treatment with cocoa colors.
ReplyDeleteI'd paint our bedroom in sage green.
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my parents living room! CIAwoman66@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI need to repaint my bedroom. I am loving the new gray colors I keep seeing.
ReplyDeleteI would paint my kitchen and dining room a dark taupe color. cwitherstine at zoominternet dot net
ReplyDeleteOur office, upstairs, and family room all need painting. We're thinking a pale green, pale blue, and maybe sage. lsimms224 at live dot com
ReplyDeleteI would paint the diningroom. I am thinking a shade of gray that will blend with the slate shade in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteWe need to paint our bedroom and the hallway. The dining room needs some paint too, but if I win I will do the bedroom and hallway maybe a Mélange Green & a brown or a lime green mixed with a sage, I think that would be refreshing.
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I'd paint our living room Aurora Brown.
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I desperately want to paint our kitchen, I don't know how I would choose a color right now though! I've always wanted a red kitchen...
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I would paint our kitchen, probably either green or a neutral color like beige or sand.
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Painting the guest room a warm pink! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeletewe just moved into a new house umm maybe 9months ago and we need to paint every room they are all that boring neutral white/tan color and i hate it so it would be hard for me to pick which rooms to do first probably our family room and a warm brown or green then kids bath a Turquoise girls bed rooms purples boy bed room green or blue (he wants black and yellow batman) master bed a purpley blue warm tone front living chocolate with 1 wall a bright color kitchen yellowy orange (cant you tell i've been planning the home "redo" since we moved in lol)
ReplyDeleteI would actually give this to my in laws they have been trying to fix their place up for years and I would love for them to have great quality paint!
ReplyDeleteI'd paint my new nursery!! Not sure on the colors, but I'm thinking a nautical theme.
ReplyDeleteI would love to paint my kitchen! Some settling cracks have occurred and I would love to fix it and paint it!
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ReplyDeleteI would like to paint my son's room...it is in dire need...I would allow him to have input into the color choice. I think a deep blue would be nice. :-) Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteI'd repaint my kitchen a soft peach color.
ReplyDeletei would love to redo my husbands and i bedroom.its plain white..blah
ReplyDeleteI'd paint my daughter's big girl room, but we haven't picked a color yet.
ReplyDeleteI would paint my room a paisley blue, I would paint my living room a beige and paint my kitchen a shade of grey
ReplyDeleteI would paint my boys rooms but that will only be when we finaly close on our home.
ReplyDeleteI would like to paint my bedroom a nice off-white with a lime green accent wall.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to paint the bathroom and bedroom in a taupe color.
ReplyDeletei would give this to my daughter or one o her boys rooms youngest wants more of sage green the oldest wants little darker less yellow green than his younger brother
ReplyDeleteI really need to paint the master bedroom. We live in a apartment and the last tenants panted it pink. I would love to have it a soft suede color.
ReplyDeleteI would paint the master bed/bath and my 2 bedrooms.
ReplyDeleteI want to paint upstairs play room a bright yellow color. donna.marie2011@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteLiving Room/Kitchen (one big room) and hall. Computer room and bedrooms and bathrooms... ALL the rooms in our house need paint... we are undecided on colors though.
ReplyDeleteI would paint the bathroom a bright cheery color like yellow and get rid of the tan!
ReplyDeletemy living room and kitchen need new paint
ReplyDeleteLiving room and staircase going upstairs a light yellow-green
ReplyDeletei pain my kiction ,liveing room, dineing room, bath room ,bed room ,hallway since thay all need to be done and i go with a realy lite green in the kiction and dineing room with white trim, in the liveing and hall way i go with a realy lite tan and white trim, and in the bath room and bed room i go with a realy lite blue and white trim. i live in a house that was made any wheres from 1910 to 1920 with still the same doors and windows that it came with back then so i would love to try to keep it in thay same way.
ReplyDeletethe bedroom a medium grey
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I would start in the living room and work toward the bedroom. I am considering a basic clean look of swiss coffee satin to bring the light in.
ReplyDeleteI would paint my grandsons room. They moved back home with me...and he got the Mauve room. Would love to repaint it blue! :)
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i would love to paint my daughters nursery pink brown and green!
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I would paint my son's nursery with blue/black
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ReplyDeletei would love my bathroom sand color
ReplyDeleteI would love to paint my daughters and my rooms to soft colors:)thanks for the chance:)
ReplyDeleteI would paint the bedroom a calming color!
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I'd paint the outside of my house.
ReplyDeleteI would love to do my bedroom in Softened Green
ReplyDeleteI would love to paint the basement a cream color.
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I would paint my guest bedroom a chocolate brown color
ReplyDeleteMy summer project is to paint my dining room I am thinking about a version of green not sure how dark have to get some samples
ReplyDeleteI would paint our soon to be born baby boy's room in Ellie Gray, pantry in Raisin, and bedroom in a neutral brown color with Master Bath in Med. Orangey color.
ReplyDeletewe are turning our garage into our living room so this would be great, I would paint it a neutral tan color and baby girls room right now is yellow since its been acting as our spare room, so I would paint that a pale pink color
ReplyDeleteI need to paint my daughters room. Shes 8 years old and we are moving our 5 month old daughter in with her. We are looking to paint it lavender.
ReplyDeletePainting our teenage daughters room! The colors she always wanted, Lime green and Hot pink, with Zibra print trimmings!! Well you only live once!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has been wanting her bedroom done with purple and black stripes
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We'd paint baby #6's room. The color depends on if it's a boy or girl :) Thinking light lime green for a girl and pale blue for boy.
ReplyDeletei'd paint my nephew's room green and my bathroom plum
ReplyDeletei'd like an off-base white color for my walls
ReplyDeletei would paint my bedroom a dark blue and my living room and dining room a taupe or beige
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I want to paint my son's room gray with tangerine pinstripes.
ReplyDeleteI would redo the kids bathroom & my laundry room. I want teal & brown circles & dots in the laundry room.
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I would love to paint my kitchen a sage like green. And my bathrooms blue.
ReplyDeleteId paint my kitchen Peach!
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Our landlord painted all the rooms a soft yellow matte and only one coat. So every room needs to be repainted, especially the bathroom and kitchen as matte paint is so hard to clean. I want the bathroom to be a soft blue and the kitchen a sage green.
ReplyDeleteI just recently moved into a new home and I desperately want to do a total kitchen makeover. I would love to paint my kitchen cabinets white. Although I haven't decided exactly what color I would paint the walls, I'm thinking a taupe or cream color.
ReplyDeleteI would paint our living/dining room and maybe the kitchen, as far as colors - I have no idea right now, my husband and I have been debating about it for 2 years.
ReplyDeleteWe need to paint our entry way and the play room (all one area) and our living room. Not sure which we would choose to paint first. The entry way & playroom, I have no idea what color we'd paint it. THe living room will be a bright red (dh's idea not mine!) with a muted color (something like tan or gold).
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I'd paint a guest room, in a blue or periwinkle.
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I'd like to paint our bedroom gray, and the living room a warm beige.
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I'd paint our master bedroom in colors that go with our duvet. Maroon, tan and goldish. Rafflecopter: happi shopr
ReplyDeleteI would like to repaint my Kitchen a rusty Tuccan red
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I need to paint my bedroom ceiling and would do it in either white (which it currently is) or an off-white cream color.
ReplyDeletemy daughters room orange
ReplyDeleteI would love to paint my bedroom peach.
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I think I'd like to paint my living room and hall a light eggshell gray color. I think it would also look good in my bedroom which hasn't been painted in 16 years
ReplyDeleteI would paint my bedroom and bathroom. Blue for the bedroom and I'm not sure about the bathroom. (Roxann)
ReplyDeleteOur living room needs painting and I was thinking of real light pale blue.
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It's definitely time to freshen up the whole house!
ReplyDeleteHa, we're right now working on the hall, hall bath and then tackling the kitchen & dining area. Colors will be a grey/blue in the bath & hall, and I've got a moonlit pool along with a midnight in the kitchen. After that- who knows but the girls have been trying to dibs "my room next", so we'll see.
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I would paint my kitchen and son's room. We just had our floors redone and it would look so great to have new paint on the walls!!
ReplyDeletemy daughter's room in a light yellow
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Well we just bought paint for the nursery, but I'd love to repaint our kitchen after we just did it in October. I'm not sure what color we'd do, but the orange that I thought would look awesome has to go!
ReplyDeleteid paint my refinished basement in eggshell
ReplyDeletei would like to paint my daughters room pink
ReplyDeletemy diningroom....white.. right now it has 25 year old wall paper on it since we bought the house.
ReplyDeletekat_emerick@yahoo.com
I would love to paint my living room a nice neutral creme
ReplyDeleteI would paint our son's room Leapfrog.
ReplyDeleteI would paint the bathroom off of his room Parakeet.
I would paint our bedroom Majestic Purple.
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would paint ceiling in living room and bedrooms and use a white
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I would paint my bedroom using earthtones - tan, sage etc.
ReplyDeleteceriehl at gmail dot com
My living room and hallway really need painting this spring.They have lots of pretty colors, but I haven't decided on the color yet. Thanks for the contest!
ReplyDeleteI would like to paint my bedroom taupe and my bathroom sky blue.
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