Sometimes including a home addition into your home improvement budget is a smart choice, especially for young homeowners who suddenly find themselves expecting a child. Purchasing a bigger house to accommodate your growing family is often costlier and more time-consuming than adding a room. By building an addition onto your house, the nursery you’re creating now can be transformed into a bedroom as your little one grows. Keep these tips for creating the perfect nursery in mind as you build.

Ways to Create the Perfect Nursery

Flooring

Kids can wreak havoc on a home as they age from toddlers to teenagers, and one victim of their shenanigans is flooring. That’s why selecting a durable, kid-friendly flooring material is essential. Carpet is soft and great at protecting growing babies from bruises as they learn to walk, but they also collect allergens that can agitate allergies or asthma. Choosing a natural, VOC-free material, such as cotton, wool, or jute is an alternative.

Cork flooring is another option, providing a softer floor than hardwood. It also doesn’t collect allergens and is anti-microbial. Laminate floors are also an affordable selection, but parents should ask for low or zero-emission material. Of course, adding a rug to hardwood, laminate, or cork flooring can accessorize your baby’s nursery while protecting your investment.

Paint

You should consider the size and shape of your home addition when selecting its color pallet. By including large windows in your nursery design, you’ll have a naturally bright space that can benefit from light or dark colors. Lighter colors will brighten any-sized space even more, but dark shades will darken a small, poorly lit room.

Colors also inspire different emotions in the human brain. Red and yellows are exciting, stimulating energy, which could make it difficult for your over-stimulated baby to sleep easy. Blue and green are peaceful, calming colors that inspire restfulness. Pink evokes empathy but tends to create anxiety in babies as they grow older. Ultimately, you should use your instincts when choosing the best color scheme for your home addition.

Expectant parents in St. Paul or Minneapolis, MN, interested in installing a home addition should call the contractors at TLC Remodeling, based in Golden Valley. Specializing in home renovation projects, they work with clients to design a variety of room additions, kitchen and bathroom remodeling, and basement finishing. Call (952) 356-4303 or visit them online to schedule a consultation today.