07.17.2008 | 3:56 am | Bedrooms
Two key things to consider when planning a shopping list for decorating your child’s room are how well the item suits the theme of the room and how durable it is likely to be. A large number of manufacturers make good value items that are perfect in a child’s room so you won’t, necessarily, have to spend a huge amount of money to design a room that your child will emjoy well into their teenage years.
One of the most popular pieces of furniture for a kids room is the bunk bed. It’s great for sleepovers and for when you have other guests in the house. Once older you can cater to your child’s changing needs by separating the beds into 2 separate twins and either keep them in the same room or move one to another room or to storage.
There are numberous options for decorating the walls of your kid’s bedrrom including, murals, decals or fun pictures or posters. i particularly like the splanets and starts that you stick to the ceiling and walls and which light up once the lights are turned off. A glow-in-the-dark solar system is an inexpensive way to create some fun kids décor but you may want to go for the moreinidvidual aproach and have a custom mural created. This is, obviously, a more expensive option, but will allow your child to have more imput on the outcome of their room’s decoration.
This is especailly important as kids get older and they want more of a say to even to help. Allowing this or letting them choose their own furniture will enhance the time they spend in their room doing their homework or playing computer games, for example.
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07.16.2008 | 3:36 am | Bedrooms
When I was a child, my bedroom was simply the place I slept in or was sent to if I’d misbehaved. The only furniture in it was a bed, wardrobe and chest of drawers. Things changed a bit when I became a teenager and I was allowed to stick a few posters to the wall. My favorite one was David Cassidy sitting beneath a tree with his dog. Shows my age.
Nowadays, kid’s bedrooms are big business just like the children’s birthday party market. An entire industry has been built around designing furniture, murals, rugs, wallpaper, bedding etc that is specifically targeted to children.
There is so much choice out there that it can be difficult to choose a theme for a bedroom and then there’s the situation when your child wants something different from yourself. For example, my son’s favorite soccer team play in red shirts and, consequently, he wants his room to be red. I’m not keen because red is an exiciting color and I want my son’s room to be a place of calm and relaxation. however, we may compromise by painting the alcove, around his desk and workspace, in red.
I’m not keen on a lot of stimulation in kid’s room. Getting homework done or settling down to sleep is harder when they can switch on their favorite TV programs or they’re trying to get to the next level on their latest game.
Some kids almost live in their rooms, only coming down for food. IF everything they want is in their room you will see less of them and not know what they’re up to. It wil be harder to monitor their use of the internet. In this busy world, I think there’s a huge adavantage to making a child’s bedroom a place of refuge, to think, read, do homework and sleep.
Typical modern kid’s bedrooms have state of the art gadgets that were previously only found in the living room. There are TVs, DVD players, games systems and computers. Nowadays sending a child to their bedroom as a punishment is not veyr effective.
Designing kid’s bedrooms covers color co-ordination, themes and efficient storage systems etc. And you need to keep on top of it because, of course, as children grow up, their tastes develop and change. Just when you’ve got used to the circus animal theme, complete with hand painted stencils, your child has become a teenager and wants something more grown up. So you need to stay on the ball.
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