How to Design a Shabby Chic Toddler's Room
- 1). Paint the bedroom walls with flat paint in a pastel color. For traditional, gender-specific colors, use blush pink for a girl room or light sky blue for a boy. Shabby chic wall colors appropriate for either gender include French blue, mint or celadon green, pale gray and buttery yellow. Paint the woodwork with a soft, marshmallow white in a satin or glossy finish.
- 2). Paint a vintage, twin-sized bed white for a girl’s room, then distress the finish with sandpaper or sepia-colored glaze. For a boy’s bed, opt for soft gray paint or a light wood stain. Wrought iron, Jenny Lind, panel or cottage-style beds suit the shabby chic style.
- 3). Dress the bed with white cotton sheets, then top it with a vintage or vintage-inspired cover. Consider a floral chenille bedspread for a girl or a patchwork quilt for a boy. Add washable, white cotton pillow shams bordered with shirred welt or box-pleated ruffles. If your bed covering doesn’t reach the floor, add a shirred, cotton dust ruffle. Try a pastel floral for girls or subtle ticking stripes for boys.
- 4). Add a glossy coat of white or pastel paint to a vintage nightstand and to a dresser or chest. Eastlake, Victorian, English country and Federal styles look particularly charming in shabby chic rooms. Painted or natural wicker also suits the style.
- 5). Dress the windows in your toddler’s room with white curtains made of dotted Swiss, seersucker or plain cotton fabric. For a girl’s room, consider tie-top panels with big, floppy bows and a narrow, shirred ruffle along the leading edge. For a boy’s room, fasten tab-top curtains with covered buttons that match your wall color.
- 6). Accessorize the room by hanging framed storybook illustrations on the walls. Display a collection of vintage toys on the dresser. Hang a petite chandelier in the center of the room. Look for a gilded, crystal covered chandelier for a girl or a spindle chandelier with a distressed finish for a boy. Soften a wood floor with a rug, perhaps a braided rag rug for a boy or a floral hooked rug for a girl.
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