Water-based paint for a children's room. Quality and safety

Safe paint for children's rooms

Paint for walls in a children's room should first of all be safe for your baby's health.
Common household paints can contain up to 10,000 different chemicals, including hundreds of known toxins and carcinogens. And when the paint film dries, harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released into the air, polluting the environment. They are completely invisible to the eye and can be intangible.

VOCs are harmful chemicals that easily evaporate into the air at room temperature. These include chemicals such as gasoline, benzene and formaldehyde and solvents such as toluene and perchlorethylene (the main solvent used in dry cleaning). They react with sunlight and heat, creating smog that is invisible to the eye.

Although VOC emissions are highest during and immediately after painting, they can continue to emit low levels of toxic emissions for several years.

Quality paint for children's

Pay attention to the quality of paint for the children's room, look for products with low and acceptable levels of volatile chemicals (VOCs). VOCs are often responsible for allergies and upper respiratory tract diseases, not only in children but also in adults.

Children are much more susceptible to harmful substances than adults. This is due to greater absorption of their skin, that is, with easier penetration of active substances into the baby’s body.

To choose paints that are safe for use in children's rooms, pay attention to the presence of certificates indicated on the packaging confirming the correct composition of paint and varnish products: - EU Ecolabel, which is valid in 25 countries of the European Union.

Remember that the paint for a children's room should be hypoallergenic, resistant to damage and dirt, and easy to clean, without losing its original and beautiful appearance.

Flugger paint for children's rooms

The Flugger concern has many years of experience in the production of paints and varnishes (since 1783) and constantly strives to reduce the content of harmful chemicals in its products. This also includes the fairly strict legislation of Scandinavia and Denmark, including where it is constantly required to undergo all kinds of checks and mandatory certification of products and production itself.

Plus, Flugger purposefully undergoes certification, thereby showing the consumer that the products it produces are harmless to people and the environment. Such certificates that mark Flugger products include ECO Label and Nordic Swon.

The company has paints that are recommended for painting children's rooms. They are quite easy to maintain, endowed with increased wear-resistant characteristics and resistance to wet cleaning. Also, all these products are certified on the territory of the Russian Federation, have passed mandatory certification, are included in the state register and are recommended as: for interior decoration of premises, including children's schools and preschools, medical and treatment institutions of Class A, B.

Flugger Products

• Matte, wear-resistant, withstands local cleaning and wet cleaning. More details about the product itself - FLUGGER DEKSO 5
• Silky-matte, withstands local cleaning and wet cleaning (in light colors). About the product itself - FLUGGER FLUTEX 10

Painting walls is the fastest and most practical way to redecorate a room. A new paint color will refresh the look of a child's room and, if done correctly, will delight the child.

Variety of paint

For clarity, coloring compositions for furniture are summarized in Table 1. It will allow you to compare and select the most suitable type.

Table 1.

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A common positive factor of all types is the complete absence of odor. They do not cause allergies, do not contain toxins, and are chemically resistant.

Important: To obtain a high-quality painted surface, the choice of type is made taking into account the base material.

High cost is an inevitable consequence of the improved consumer properties of coloring compositions.

Water-based paint

Water-based paints.

Very common in everyday life. Its high environmental properties allow it to be widely used in residential interior design. You can decorate the furniture and walls of a children's room in a single color scheme. It will take little time, will not require high qualifications, and will not be burdensome for the family budget. Water-based paints differ from other types in a number of advantages:

1. Fast drying.
2. Harmless at all stages of painting work.
3. No smell.
4. Excellent tinting.
5. Application by brush, roller, spray.
6. Allows reusable use of the tool.

Apply in several layers depending on the absorbent properties of the base. During operation, temperature control is required. Among the obvious disadvantages, low abrasion resistance should be noted.

Colored acrylic paint

The composition includes components with dirt-repellent properties. The presence of silver ions imparts bactericidal properties.

Important: The name of such paints contains an indication of use for children's rooms.

The use of thickening gels makes it possible to obtain coatings with different coefficients of light reflection. Advantages of acrylic coatings:

1. Durability.
2. Gas tightness.
3. Manufacturability of use.
4. Resistance to cyclic temperature changes.

Its versatility and high adhesion allow it to be used for direct painting of wooden, brick, and concrete surfaces.

Acrylic paints.

Latex and acrylate water-based

Latex and acrylic compositions have a common structure. Acrylic paints and varnishes are a type of latex compositions. The fundamental difference is in the presence of synthetic acrylic copolymers. Accordingly, latex paint is slightly less durable and resistant to negative factors compared to acrylic paint. In addition, it requires careful preparation of the surface for painting. The advantages include high hiding power and low consumption.

Please note: Sole painting: surface cleaning and black or white coloring technology

Eco-paints

The composition includes only natural ingredients. This feature is used in the manufacture of children's furniture and toys. They are harmless, durable, chemically resistant, hygienic, absorb well, and reliably protect the painted base.

Note: Chalk paints made from milk casein are most preferable for painting and repainting children's furniture.

As a rule, no preliminary preparation of the surface to be painted is required. High cost may be a deterrent, but this is where savings can hurt.

Colors for a children's room

How to choose a color for a children's room?

When choosing a paint color for a child's room, it is important to consider the size and shape of the room, furnishings, and floor finish. Don't forget about your child's wishes and opinions - what colors does he like?

The color doesn't have to be overwhelming, consider whether it will match and coordinate with the furniture in the room. Children's toys and accessories will add additional color, and the room will become colorful even if you choose white as the main color.

It is better to choose no more than 2-3 shades. For example: a calmer tone as the base and one stronger color that will become an accent. Using this technique, you can give the room individuality, highlight separate areas in the room for various types of children’s activities: a place to sleep, play, study, etc. This will help the children become more collected and accustomed to order.

A popular technique has become the use of slate black paint - you get an accent area (wall), a place for entertaining and painting.

How to choose colors for a nursery

It is better to choose colors directly in the nursery room that will be painted. If you plan to use several bright, saturated, perhaps contrasting shades, it is better to spend a little time and look at them in different lighting. You will see how different the same color can be in: daylight, evening, and artificial light.

When choosing a color for a nursery, the amount of sunlight plays a big role. Lack of light and being in a dark, cold room can cause drowsiness, fatigue and discomfort.

If the children's windows face the north or west, where there is little light, you should give preference to light, warm shades and add bright colors. Conversely, a room with windows located to the south or east requires the use of cooler tones. An interesting solution is to combine the colors of warm and cold delicate shades, for example yellowish and light gray.

How color affects our emotions

Color helps to calm down or, on the contrary, awakens the desire to act and improves mood. Color is a simple stimulus that affects the brain through the eyes, causing various reactions - it affects the way you feel, think, and behave.

Paint for walls in the nursery

If you are renovating a children's room, we recommend that you paint the walls. It will not fade from exposure to sunlight; with its help you can easily update the interior of the room. Of course, to paint walls in a nursery, you must use only natural water-based paints based on:

• Limestone.
• Casein.
• Silicate.
• Silicone.

Also, do not ignore natural paint, which has a photocatalytic effect. By painting the walls with this paint, it will absorb various odors, destroy bacteria and harmful substances, thus creating a healthy climate in the children's room. The principle of operation of this paint is like a catalyst - under the influence of light (daylight or artificial), the paint is activated and begins to decompose all harmful substances and unpleasant odors into neutral components.

The material for painting walls in a children's room should have another very important property - the surface that you painted should be easy to wash. Therefore, in this case it is better to give preference to paints that create a glossy surface.

But matte paint also has its advantage - it will make all the dents and scratches that are on the wall less noticeable.

An alternative to these two types of paint is paint that has a silky-matte sheen: it will add shine to the walls, and various irregularities on it will be less noticeable.

If you still have paint after the renovation, do not rush to throw it away. After all, small “Picassos” can paint a wall, and excess paint will help to paint over the art of your talented child, unless, of course, you want to keep them as a souvenir. But remember that you will have to paint the entire wall, because if you paint a small part, the transition between the old paint and the new will be noticeable. If this option does not suit you, then when purchasing paint, pay attention to the label; it should indicate that this paint can be applied spot-on.

You can organize an area for children's creativity using paint that is used for school boards. After all, you can use it to paint the walls, then by giving your child crayons, you won’t be afraid that you won’t be able to remove the art.

If your child’s room is corner or has thin walls that freeze in winter, then

We recommend using paint with thermal insulation characteristics. This paint contains micro glass grains, which create an insulating film on the surface with a double glass effect. Walls painted with this paint will become matte with a warm tint.