Orange Nursery Paint Colours

When it comes to preparing your home for a new arrival designing the nursery is one of the most exciting tasks on your to-do list.

One colour that is worth considering for your nursery is orange. While orange might not be the first shade that pops to mind when considering your options it does offer a way to keep it gender-neutral while remaining stylish and breaking from the usual blues, pinks, or off-white shades. Ideal for those who want to keep the gender a surprise.

In this article, we will be taking you through some of our favourite orange paint colours in the Tikkurila collection. After seeing some of our top orange paint shades you will feel inspired and ready to choose a paint colour for your nursery.

Top Orange Nursery Colours

Tempted to find the perfect orange shade for your nursery? Here are our top picks.

Our first orange paint colour to talk about is our incredibly warming Safari K396. This orange nursery paint colour brings a sense of energy and warmth to any space. Perhaps one more for exhausted parents wakings up in the middle of the night to tend to their new arrivals.

Pair this with chic off-white with a touch of grey for an incredibly attractive space.

Beeswax L396 is a warm, inviting orange with subtle red undertones. This cosy orange can work well in a nursery and can help your baby's space extrude an inviting and energising appeal. Another shade worth considering for parents who are looking for an extra burst of energy during long sleepless nights.

Our next orange nursery shade is Doll H405. Doll is a pale orange with delicate hints of pink. This shade may be more appropriate for girl's nurseries, however, can definitely be used effectively in gender-neutral nurseries as an aspect of a colour scheme.

No matter if you are interested in painting all walls in Doll H405 or looking to paint on a feature wall and paint it with light blues or soft whites, there is a solution for you.

Harvest V406 is a muted mid-toned orange that brings a sense of reassurance and warmth to a nursery. This colour works best when paired with neutral shades. You can also bring more vibrant colours such as brighter blues together with this shade for maximum appeal and a dash of visual interest.

The final orange we will spotlight is Siesta J407. This is a brighter muted orange that will be an excellent choice for those who have a lot of natural light and want to build on that.

Siesta is a very versatile shade that will work in a broad array of colour schemes.

Orange Nursery Colour Schemes

While orange is a brilliant choice for anyone looking to decorate for their new arrival sometimes it works better when paired with other complementary shades.

Here are a few of our favourite colour schemes that feature some of our previously mentioned orange paint colours.

Our first colour pairing involves our luxurious pale orange, Doll. To take advantage of Doll's light and airy vibes we pair it with another equally attractive light shade. For this, we have chosen Calla. Calla offers a soft off-white with slight warm yellow undertones. This makes for an excellent background shade that allows the vibrance of Doll to shine.

Looking to give your baby's nursery a bit more warmth? Perhaps this mid-tone orange and fresh white combination is the answer to what you are looking for.

Here we will be combining our darker orange Harvest V406 with Paper F497. The sharp contrast helps direct focus to specific areas or even create a sense of depth in a smaller space by only painting one wall with the orange shade.

Another versatile combination is Siesta J407 and Snowdrift L503. This takes the peachy vibrance of Siesta and pairs it with the slightly blue off-white Snowdrift. Together this colour pairing creates an attractive space. You could even bring in a third shade with a dark blue or off-black to create an even more dynamic look.

Using Orange Colour Schemes in a Nursery

There are many ways to use these colours effectively together such as having Doll on a single featured wall, sectioning a certain area such as the baby's cot, having the trim in one colour and the main walls in the other, opting for a painted ceiling, or even panelling one colour and the top half another.

It is best to consider a nursery colour scheme that can work well as children grow. The last thing you would want to do is invest all of your time into creating a brand new space only to have to redecorate it all again as your children grow. Plan ahead and you'll have a room that only requires small adaptations over time.

Try to keep the most vibrant or adventurous aspects of the room to easily changeable things such as the crib, bedding, curtains, and other accessories.

You are only really restricted by your creativity here when decorating a nursery for your baby.