Painting the Kid’s Room

Keeping your kid happy with their room can be a difficult task as their tastes are ever changing and evolving. This means that at some point you are going to end up painting the walls. Here are some tips for painting the walls in your kid’s room and making the whole process easier.

Prepare for cleanup before you ever have to clean up. Get a set of cheap Cherokee scrubs to wear while painting the room to help save your clothes. This is better than a set of old rags, because nursing scrubs are cheap, disposable and easily washed. You can both wear them once and ditch them or you can wash them over to keep using them for messy tasks around the house.



Just like how the nursing scrubs will keep the paint from ruining your clothing, invest in some heavy duty tarps to keep the paint off your floors and carpet. Sealing the tarps to the molding with painter’s tape will ensure that any spilled paint stays on top of the tarps.

Always use stain resistant paint for any solid color walls. Remember that his is a kid’s room. The walls are going to get covered in various liquids, from grape juice to pancake syrup, and you are going to want them to clean up easily.

Lastly, consider doing something more interesting than painting the walls simple, plain and solid colors. If you have a little artistic talent, you can create an imaginative mural that your kids will love. You can step that up one more level by having your kids help you create this work of art.

Primer is your best friend. This is a simple suggestion, but it is one that many people forget about. Primer is very important if you want the paint to stay where you put it, which should be on the wall.