Hi there.
The Waldorf classrooms do have this distinctive look. The effect used in most classrooms is to go for a very light filled wall color, which is achieved by a progression of very sheer color layers. One technique they use to achieve it is called "lazuring", but not every Waldorf classroom has real lazure (there aren't that many wall painters in most Waldorf school communities that know how to do it). The effect is to cover the walls with very lively light-filled colors--and most tend to use certain prescribed colors for each grade, even though the school's founder, Rudolf Steiner, chose different pallettes for the various schools he had a hand in. The original idea was to choose the colors based on the particular environment as well as the temperaments of children at different ages, but now it seems like very often it's the same in every school. I can't remember them all--basically it starts with a peachy pink in kindergartens and finishes with a kind of deep blue/violet by eighth grade. Hopefully someone else here can remember them better.
The other quality of the classrooms is that there really isn't a lot of "stuff" everywhere, including the walls, which is the style of most of the preschools and grade schools where I live now.
(Removed my OT digression-sorry! It pertained to "stuff" put up on the walls in the public schools here but I didn't explain myself well at all and I think doing so will just hijack the thread)
The Waldorf classrooms do have this distinctive look. The effect used in most classrooms is to go for a very light filled wall color, which is achieved by a progression of very sheer color layers. One technique they use to achieve it is called "lazuring", but not every Waldorf classroom has real lazure (there aren't that many wall painters in most Waldorf school communities that know how to do it). The effect is to cover the walls with very lively light-filled colors--and most tend to use certain prescribed colors for each grade, even though the school's founder, Rudolf Steiner, chose different pallettes for the various schools he had a hand in. The original idea was to choose the colors based on the particular environment as well as the temperaments of children at different ages, but now it seems like very often it's the same in every school. I can't remember them all--basically it starts with a peachy pink in kindergartens and finishes with a kind of deep blue/violet by eighth grade. Hopefully someone else here can remember them better.
The other quality of the classrooms is that there really isn't a lot of "stuff" everywhere, including the walls, which is the style of most of the preschools and grade schools where I live now.
(Removed my OT digression-sorry! It pertained to "stuff" put up on the walls in the public schools here but I didn't explain myself well at all and I think doing so will just hijack the thread)
