Children's Wallpaper Guide: Tips & Tricks, Ideas & Instructions

Discover creative ideas for wall design in children's rooms – with lovingly selected children's wallpapers, matching colors, and decorating tips for every age. Whether it's a baby room, nursery, or teen's room – here you'll find inspiration for modern, playful, and stylish themed rooms with wallpaper. Be inspired by current trends and popular wallpaper motifs for boys and girls.

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With Kindertapeten.de's tailor-made sewing service, we create custom children's curtains, side curtains, children's bedding, and pillows from high-quality decorative fabrics. From fabrics with Disney motifs to modern designs – everything is sewn precisely according to your wishes. Simply download an inquiry form, submit the information, and receive a quote. This way, you can give your child's room a personalized, stylish atmosphere in no time.

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There are many technical terms in the world of wallpaper. To help you navigate, we've created a practical glossary that simply explains the most important terms. From 'pattern repeat' to 'overlap' to 'seam rollers' – here you'll find all the definitions to help you select and install wallpaper.

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Learn the most important wallpaper symbols – from washability, abrasion resistance, lightfastness to fire behavior – and understand at a glance how to properly care for, clean, and ensure long-lasting use of your children's wallpaper. This overview will help you identify the appropriate care instructions, environmental classes, and areas of application. This way, you'll know exactly whether a wallpaper is suitable for your child's room and how to optimally apply and care for it.

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Discover the most important fabric symbols and care instructions for textiles for children's rooms – from washing temperature, ironing instructions, and tumble drying to bleaching and dry cleaning. Our compact overview will help you immediately decipher the care symbols on pillows, curtains, and textiles. This way, bedding, curtains, and pillows stay beautiful and safe for your little ones for a long time.

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In our FAQ section, you'll find concise answers to frequently asked questions about children's wallpaper – from wallpaper removal and surface preparation to wallpapering tips, cleaning, and disposal. Ideal for DIY wall design in children's rooms: You'll find practical instructions, care tips, and information on order deadlines, exchanges, and sample orders – perfect for stress-free wall design with child-friendly motifs.

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In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything about the health-related aspects of children's wallpaper – including PVC-free children's wallpaper, sustainable production, common quality seals such as RAL or the "Blue Angel," and the most important harmful substances such as plasticizers, flame retardants, and formaldehyde. Ideal for parents who rely on environmentally friendly and pollutant-free children's wallpaper – for a safe and healthy children's room.

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When it comes to children's wallpaper, there's a wide selection of materials and surfaces. In our guide, you'll learn more about the different types of wallpaper, their properties, and which purposes they're best suited for. Whether non-woven wallpaper, vinyl, or paper wallpaper – here you'll find the right wallpaper type for your children's room project.

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Discover the most important wallpapering tools for your own wallpapering – from surface preparation to the final printing. Practical explanations of tools such as the flat planer, spiked roller, painter's spatula, and scraper – ideal for smoothing, filling, and removing old wallpaper.

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Discover wallpapers for themed rooms: from comics and superheroes to dinosaur wallpapers, vehicles, animal wallpapers, nature wallpapers, star wallpapers, and wallpapers with fairytale motifs – ideal for immersing yourself, playing, and dreaming. Our tips also show you how to combine patterned wallpapers with plain wallpapers to create harmonious accents and individual wall designs.

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In this guide, you'll learn how to choose the right care for your children's wallpaper – depending on the type of wallpaper. Applying a protective sealant with wallpaper protection immediately after hanging can be a good idea. This way, the wall design in the children's room will stay well-maintained and beautiful for a long time.

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Whether wallpapers with a wood texture, a striking stone look, or modern wallpapers with 3D effects – here you'll find extraordinary wallpaper designs that will make any child's room a real eye-catcher. Be inspired by creative surfaces and special materials for a unique wall design with character.

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Learn how Marburg's heat-reflecting Celsius wallpaper, with its innovative iReflex technology, reflects infrared heat and thus reduces heating costs – according to the manufacturer, up to 15% energy savings. The modern concrete look brings cool design to children's rooms while creating a pleasant indoor climate.

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With our wallpapering instructions, hanging wallpaper is easy, even for beginners! We'll guide you step by step through the process—from preparing the walls to applying the wallpaper paste and hanging the wallpaper. We'll also give you tips on how to avoid common mistakes and achieve a professional look.

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Discover how wallpapers with patterns, colors, and stripes can visually transform a child's room. Whether vertically or horizontally striped, with large or small patterns – with targeted use, you can conjure up height, spaciousness, or coziness. Dark floors provide stability, light walls openness – and accent walls create central focal points. This way, you can design rooms that not only look beautiful but also appear perfectly proportioned.

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Here you'll learn how to decorate your child's room age-appropriately and support their interests, personality, and developmental stages with suitable wallpaper motifs. The site explores topics such as age-appropriate interior design, adventure worlds, and matching wallpaper motifs – perfect for an inspiring and child-friendly home.

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This page tells the story of the evolution of wallpaper—from prehistoric cave paintings to elegant gold leather wallpapers of the Baroque period to modern printing processes and nonwoven wallpapers. Learn how materials, printing techniques, and designs have changed over time and which eras have significantly shaped wallpaper history.

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