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In family houses, the areas that are used the most are the living rooms, kitchens, and dining rooms. They are frequently created with adult tastes in mind as well. On the other hand, kid’s bedroom may neglect their design. When it comes to decorating a child’s bedroom, though, the possibilities are endless; it’s an opportunity to express your creativity and have some decorating fun.
Although your child’s bedroom may only be used as a place to sleep, it can also be used as a playroom, study space, and personal haven in the future. Children’s hobbies, habits, and tendencies do change as they get older, which makes designing a child’s room more difficult. This is why it’s critical that every aspect of your design, including the colours you choose, the furniture, the accessories, the storage solutions, and more, be flexible.
Uneasy? Be not! To help you envision the ideal space for your young flatmate, we’ve put up a fantastic selection of design ideas.
Colour
Kids’ rooms are the ideal place to use bright paint, distinctive fixtures, or furniture to create a visually striking effect. Vibrant colours chosen in consultation with your child give the room personality and allow you to make design decisions not seen in other areas of the house. Of course, you can still design a stunning room with lots of personality that your child will love, even if you really don’t think traditional kids’ room colours are for you. Tasteful toys, hanging fairy lights, or age-appropriate bed linens can add a pop of colour to a room that is primarily muted in tone.
Furniture
It’s usually advisable to go with stronger, more durable options when purchasing furniture for your child’s room. Youngsters will scramble and climb around, not noticing the fragile items nearby. Though Rita points out, “you are not wasting good things on children, but starting their collections and developing their taste,” there are still ways to use antiques in your child’s room. It definitely pays off, in my opinion.
Regarding the bed, plan ahead. Kids grow up fast, so that adorable toddler bed constructed from the best Bahamian lignum vitae isn’t worth the money if they can’t fit into it in two years. Another important factor is practicality: a pink princess bed can always be painted again, while a sailboat-shaped custom bed is far less adjustable. For siblings sharing a room or for organising amazing sleepovers, bunk beds are a fantastic choice. In smaller spaces, lofted beds are a stylish, contemporary solution that help free up space for a workstation or bureau. Selecting a full-sized bed is also a great and useful decision;
For kids, Nubie Kids has a fantastic selection of flexible furniture, such as beds and desks, and Ferm Living, a Danish company, is another option. Try Smallable, a great one-stop shop that stocks a variety of incredibly chic European brands.
Wallpaper and accessories
Play with patterns, themes, and colours while creating wallpaper for kids to have some fun. Like many interior designers who have incorporated Ottoline’s patterns into children’s rooms, we are enamoured with her vivid and upbeat designs. Howe’s “Mr Men” pattern is another choice, despite being a little pricey. It’s charming and fun, but it would also look well in the room of an older child or even an adult. Choose wallpaper that is easy to scrub down if your child is a young artist who likes to use crayons on walls. Farrow & Ball has a tonne of great possibilities. Take their Modern Emulsion paint, which is very easy to clean.
When it comes to accessories, our editors adore the charming rug designs from MiniKnots – they make great play mats, but they’re beautiful enough to be used as wall hangings too. Popping up in numerous children’s bedrooms in the magazine are the brilliant papier-mache letters and animal heads from edit58 – they’re playful, whimsical and a lovely way to add some colour to a room.
Storage
Kids will gather an incredible amount of toys, clothes, crafts, and schoolwork, so it’s important to provide their room with lots of storage options. For instance, a straightforward trunk or ottoman works well for quickly clearing out a toy explosion. Additionally, bespoke cabinets or storage do a great job of keeping the space tidy. Moreover, under-bed storage or book rails might aid to defuse tension. In terms of storage options for a child’s room, there’s never enough.
Charming kids’ bedroom ideas
This Stoke Newington home designed by Lonika Chande features gloss woodwork in Breakfast Room Green and walls painted in Farrow & Ball’s “School House White.” Lonika matched the red wrought iron bedsteads from Bobby Rabbit with green Society of Wanderers double-sided bedspreads and Big Little Store personalised cushions.
In the playroom, Lonika uses the fireplace as the toy cupboard, painted in ‘Green Smoke’ by Farrow & Ball
“We took inspiration from the kids for the children’s room, based on the central circus top lighting fixture we’d made a few years ago,” As Jules Haines clarifies. ‘We used screw-in hooks and batons to construct a cloth drop that extends from above the bed all the way behind the bed frames up to the ceiling, taking inspiration from the stripes on this. This produces a really stylish yet homely look, and the leftover Blithfield fabric from Haines was ideal for the circus stripe. The fact that we can easily switch up the textiles to create different appearances whenever we want is what I adore most about this.
Regarding the children’s rooms in this Notting Hill townhouse, Bryan O’Sullivan said, “They wanted the rooms to also transition into teenage bedrooms.” “All of the fixtures and drapes can be kept, and with minor adjustments to the handles and other components, they could be easily updated to teenagers’ rooms without breaking the bank.”
In one child’s room, Soane tables set with Matilda Goad lamps sit either side of the bespoke bed.