While toddlers who cannot read and write wouldn't probably appreaciate the idea, I do think the Wallpaper Games from French 5.5 Designers is a great product for older children's room, especially those who are into puzzles and word games. It's a simple idea of a wallpaper with grids of letters, like your usual word search game. You can find words and circle them with your writing implement of choice. In time, the room grows its own character by the amount of words found. Markers of various colours would look really nice, but plain black ink might give the wall different identity.
The nerdy side of me totally loves the idea. The images were copied from their official site and the example words are in French, but I did take some time to actually use the close up image to play a little bit to see if I can find words in English, and I certainly found plenty. I even found quite some number of words in Dutch as well.
Too bad there's no way I could find out where they sell this and how much it costs. As much as I love their products, I really can't say the same about their website.
By the way, for those of you with no toddlers/children in the house, this wallpaper is fabulous in the toilet. Imagine replacing the clutter of magazine stash with the wallpaper and a cup filled with coloured markers instead.





I was browsing around some of my favourite blogs today when I spotted this beauty at 

You might think it's a rather harsh colour palette for a nursery, but I really wanted a colour scheme that is bold, girly yet gutsy, and something I would never dare trying with any other room in the house. I'm going to paint 2 walls in the brightest canary yellow, and the other two in white. The room's walls are not very perpendicular, so I thought I could balance this annoying asymmetry by camouflaging them with two tone coloured walls in diagonal opposites. The black will not be dominant at all, I put it along since I have plans of putting up my black-and-white Edward Gorey prints againts one of the yellow walls. As for the fuchsias, I found an old IKEA fabric in the linen cabinet with the colour which I think will look brilliant for the curtain of the room. I'm just hoping that I've got enough to cover the whole window, since it's a pattern IKEA doesn't do anymore, and I can't think of anywhere else I might find a thick cotton fabric with the same colours and pattern.




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