My daughter wants a Rainbow Room

[Anonymous]

10:41, please oh please share where you found these pictures. I HAVE to get a copy of the "We Have a Good Life" picture for my kitchen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would, however, consider painting the room a pale yellow (which will last for a while), and accessorizing with rainbow pillows, throws, mobiles, decals, etc. When she outgrows the rainbow phase, you can switch accessorizes to accommodate the next one.

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When I was younger and wanted a rainbow room, this is what my folks did, only with a very pale blue paint on the walls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10:41, please oh please share where you found these pictures. I HAVE to get a copy of the "We Have a Good Life" picture for my kitchen!

I did a google images search. Here is the link to that picture:
http://pinterest.com/dreamandbelieve/magical-kids-spaces/

I couldn't find a print or canvas that had that saying, but I think you could create a really cute canvas with your kids art work and then paint that on the side.


I also found this art print, which I think would be easy and super cute to actually mimic this picture with actual ballet shoes:

[Anonymous]

We were redoing our younger DDs room, and she, at first wanted rainbow walls - similar to what OPs daughter requested - with a different color on each wall. She then decided she wanted the walls to be purple and we got her some beaded curtains and other accessories in rainbow colors.

http://www.shopwildthings.com Click on "color sort" near the top of the webpage and it will have all the rainbow colored items grouped together.
http://www.shopwildthings.com/racost.html We got the Bubbles Beaded curtains in rainbow. http://www.shopwildthings.com/nerabu.html

Also, they seem to always offer free shipping for orders over $50. (We got two sets of the curtains and hung them in a wide doorway to an alcove in her room. She's 7 and loves it... she feels so "grown up" (like her big sister) because she has (her words) "teenager stuff" in her room.

Some of the rainbow painting techniques/design ideas posted by a PP look really cool... You could do both - fab painted rainbow walls and beaded rainbow accessories for more shimmer and shine!

Good luck and have fun!

[Anonymous]

OP again. Thank you guys so much! I am seriously decorator-challenged. I went to Ikea today just to get some ideas. I'm afraid the multi-stripe paints on the walls is way beyond my abilities, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:41, please oh please share where you found these pictures. I HAVE to get a copy of the "We Have a Good Life" picture for my kitchen!

I did a google images search. Here is the link to that picture:
http://pinterest.com/dreamandbelieve/magical-kids-spaces/

I couldn't find a print or canvas that had that saying, but I think you could create a really cute canvas with your kids art work and then paint that on the side.


I also found this art print, which I think would be easy and super cute to actually mimic this picture with actual ballet shoes:

Thank you for the link. I got some great ideas!

[Anonymous]

OP, my best friend growig up had a rainbow room. Looking back it was probably hideous but back then it was SO AWESOME. I have boys, but if I had a girl I would respect the heck out of the fact that she prefers rainbows to the gross princess crap most girls want in their rooms. I'd do a pale colored background and paint an actual rainbow on the room. If that's beyond your skills, you could ask a friend to help, or even let your DD help. Draw it in pencil, first. If you repaint with primer, you can cover anything. (Isn't there a commercial on TV about a mom repainting her son's zebra room into a dinosaur room?).

Have fun with it!

Also, one more thing, if you really don't want to commit to the rainbow on the wall thing, take a trip to michaels and get some blank canvases on very big wood frames. These are cheap. Pick up some poster paints. Then simply paint rainbows on every one of them. You dont have to make an arch, just do the stripes. Or, picking up on her idea to have every room a different color, get a 7 big canvases and paint the whole canvas a single color. One red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, one indigo, one violet. hang a few of each on each wall, in a straight line but with space in between them. Or, you could get twice as mamy canvases in a smaller size, and do one red, one reddish orange, one yellow, one yellowing green, one greenish blue, one blue, one violet, one indigo, one light purple or a reddish purple. There are so many things you can do!

what fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10:41, please oh please share where you found these pictures. I HAVE to get a copy of the "We Have a Good Life" picture for my kitchen!

I did a google images search. Here is the link to that picture:
http://pinterest.com/dreamandbelieve/magical-kids-spaces/

I couldn't find a print or canvas that had that saying, but I think you could create a really cute canvas with your kids art work and then paint that on the side.


I also found this art print, which I think would be easy and super cute to actually mimic this picture with actual ballet shoes:

PP, not the OP but i have bookmarked that page. Beautiful spaces!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Also, one more thing, if you really don't want to commit to the rainbow on the wall thing, take a trip to michaels and get some blank canvases on very big wood frames. These are cheap. Pick up some poster paints. Then simply paint rainbows on every one of them. You dont have to make an arch, just do the stripes. Or, picking up on her idea to have every room a different color, get a 7 big canvases and paint the whole canvas a single color. One red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, one indigo, one violet. hang a few of each on each wall, in a straight line but with space in between them. Or, you could get twice as mamy canvases in a smaller size, and do one red, one reddish orange, one yellow, one yellowing green, one greenish blue, one blue, one violet, one indigo, one light purple or a reddish purple. There are so many things you can do!

what fun.

OP here -- what a great idea!!

[Anonymous]

I had a rainbow room too, but my walls were white with lots of rainbow paintings, posters, etc. And I had lots of prisms that cast rainbow light all over the room.

[Anonymous]

Great suggesions on this thread!

OP, kudos to you for trying to accommodate your daughter. I wanted a rainbow room growing up, but my parents never let me have any input into the decorating, and I'm still miffed 30 years later.

[Anonymous]

Yes! Prisms!!

[Anonymous]

I really like the soft stripes in the last photo.

And, my cousin has had a room with different colored walls for 7 or 8 years now (she's now 12) and still loves it. They are not quite pastels, but softer/warmer shades of blue, yellow, and purple (I don't remember exactly, but I think one wall and the ceiling are a nice cream and there's no pink).

[Anonymous]

I know many people hate wallpaper, but as a girl I had a rainbow bedroom with 3 dark lavender walls and the wall my bed was on had rainbow wallpaper (white with tons of little rainbows on it). The window trim was painted green. With green metal window shades! In fact, my parents never updated the room after I went to college about 20 yrs ago, and I still smile seeing the room! (I also had a "puffy" satin rainbow hanging on a wall. Hello, 1980's!)

[Anonymous]

OP again.

Thanks PenguinSix, these look great!

Thanks to everyone. I have been spending some time at thirft stores, picking up a lot of accessories, and getting ideas.

Appreciate all your thoughts!