How to light your child's bedroom

Your child’s room is a place that they will play, have fun as well as sleep and may spend major part of their daily activities. As they get older it may be a full time occupied space where they will relax, watch TV, complete their homework or just chill out with their siblings or invited friends. This gives you, their parents a unique opportunity to carefully select the perfect color, furniture, bedding, the most important lighting and other accessories to foster your little one's imaginations and creativity which will further nurture their personality. Out of all this things in your children’s bedroom, question of light has a direct bearing on their behavior. A well lighted room which supports all aspects of your child’s growing needs is a must and we at for your home would like to help you with this.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• You and your cute child(s)
• Lots of patience
• Imagination and creativity

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   Firstly, be prepared to use all your imaginative ideas but the important thing to remember here is it should reflect your child's personality, not yours. Talk to your child while making them part of your design work. Be interactive and if needed take them along with you while buying the lighting items.

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   Understand that any kid room can have three types of lighting; ambient light which fills the whole room, Task lighting is the kind of lighting that brightens a particular area and finally accent lighting that adds a novelty touch to your child’s room.

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   Consider three key factors about your child:
   Your kid's age, whether a baby, early school years or teenagers, Since age makes real difference in selecting and adjusting proper lighting ideas.For example, babies need low-level lighting so you can see during those frequent trips in the night to feed, change and comfort.
   Your child’s personality and interests will also play a substantial role in understanding the lighting needs. If it is a small baby, try to understand what kind of interests or personality they can have by seeing their reaction on showing or displaying certain things. For example, babies will react very happily or enjoys certain types of pictures or colours or any objects, keep this in mind while planning the lighting.
   Lastly try to understand what kind of activities will be taking place in the child's room. This will make the job of selecting and fixing task lighting to brighten up specific area used for an activity much easier. for example, if your child has a computer in the room, you’ll want to ensure a ambient soothing computer pl

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   Don't forget safety of your child.
   The safest kinds of lighting fixtures to use in your child’s room are central ceiling fixtures, child wall lights and track lighting.
   Use track lighting or wall lights instead of table lamps since they always get knocked over, believe us
   Avoid low pendant lights. They can be a hazard during pillow fights or when jumping on the bed.

Tips & Warnings

• You should take decorating your child’s room as a great opportunity to illustrate off your playful side, do some personal bonding, and allow your children to be creative.
• growing children needs a balance of natural light and artificial lighting so operable skylights and windows will add charm to the room apart from artificial lighting.
• Choose atleast one novelty theme to add a vibrant mood to your child room that compliments their hobbies and personality.
• Just remember, have fun and make it a team work with your child as your expert partner.
• If there are more than one children in the room, then take into consideration all the children's interest and personalities to create a personal space for each one instead having general lighting plan.

Resources

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