Plasterboard ceilings for a children's room (8 photos)

Arranging and repairing the room where your child lives is a responsible and important matter. After all, how comfortable your child will be in this room affects his emotional state, mood, desire to develop and improve. Since plasterboard ceilings in the nursery allow you to easily create a harmonious atmosphere, now this option is increasingly being chosen for arranging the “nest” of babies.

Fairy tale with your own hands

Ceiling in the children's room from drywall, as seen in the photo above, can be arranged in the most amazing way. But it is even more incredible that it is quite possible to realize all these ideas with your own hands, without significant labor costs. The creation of plasterboard suspended structures allows you to divide the nursery into functional areas, making the child's personal space even more comfortable and cozy.

The easiest way to decorate a plasterboard ceiling in a nursery is to cover it with water-based paint or wallpaper with a bright pattern. Images of favorite characters will cheer up the baby, and when he grows up, it will not be difficult to replace them with a more adult version.

Color solution

A few tips for choosing a color scheme for a plasterboard ceiling:

1. Dark shades on the ceiling are not the best solution for a child's room. They will put pressure, create a negative emotional background.
2. Psychologists recommend giving preference to light, pastel colors that are in harmony with the colors of the wallpaper on the walls.
3. White color will create a feeling of freshness and cleanliness in the children's room, it will optimally fit into any stylistic decision.
4. The baby will also be pleased with soft shades of pink, yellow, green, blue.

Ceiling lighting selection

Another stage in the design of the ceiling in the nursery is the selection of optimal lighting. The use of high-quality lamps that produce a uniform light flux of optimal brightness is the key to good vision and well-being of the child. Lighting devices of several types can provide it:

• Modern spotlights fit into any interior of a children's room. They can be evenly distributed over the entire surface of the ceiling or grouped to create a more powerful luminous flux. The design of such lamps with decorative elements will help to add originality.

• Raster lamps are a great option for decorating a nursery, they spread a uniform, eye-pleasing light.

Try to choose lamps with warm light, because cold tones can cause discomfort in the child.

• LED lighting has many benefits. It is safe, energy efficient, durable, can be used both hidden and open. Children are especially delighted with the options for tapes that can give a luminous flux of different shades.

Painting on the ceiling in the nursery

Painting the surface of the ceiling will help to give the children's room individuality. It organically looks both on the simplest single-level structures, and on more complex ones.

Even the simplest painting will make the ceiling of the children's room unique and unusual.

Stages of creating a painting on drywall:

1. With a simple pencil, we apply the drawing directly to the surface of the drywall.
2. If you wish, you can make the image three-dimensional using gypsum putty, which is applied with palette knives, then you will get on the ceiling bas-relief.
3. We paint the picture with acrylic paints, we expect it to dry completely.
4. We install a drywall sheet on a metal frame prepared in advance on the ceiling.

Do-it-yourself plasterboard ceiling in the nursery

The work plan will look like this:

• We develop a clear and detailed action plan. We are thinking over the general concept of decorating the nursery and the ceiling in particular.

• We are preparing the premises for the upcoming work: we completely free it from furnishings and equipment. If the changes affect only the ceiling surface, it is enough to protect the walls and the floor from settling dust.
• We mark the ceiling according to the features of the selected type of suspended structure.
• We create metal profile frame.
• We sheathe the frame with plasterboard sheets. We carefully make sure that they are fitted closely, the slightest irregularities will be very noticeable and spoil the whole picture.
• We carefully close up the joints and attachment points, carry out the planned finishing work.

If you wish, when choosing a ceiling design, you can resort to the services of professional designers, they will suggest interesting solutions and help bring them to life. During communication with a specialist, clearly announce to him all your wishes, after which you will be given a list of possible solutions, from which you have to choose the only right one. When developing the concept of the ceiling in the nursery, do not forget to consult with the direct owner of this room. Let your child take the initiative and bring their own vision to the interior.