Kids Design

Kids Design – How to Design Cool Rooms Kids Love

All great kid rooms from baby to teenager have one element in common, personality. It comes directly from your child. It can guide you to picking the right colors, fabrics, furniture and accessories. Giving the room personality will allow a child to feel connected to his or her room.

Infant to age four – your interests matter

• Determine a simple theme. A few ideas:
  A page from a children’s book.
  Nature – trees, grass, flowers or bugs, water, etc.
  Shapes – circles, hearts, stars, blocks, triangles.
• Create a color scheme that fits your theme – beyond pink for girls and blue for boys.
• For basic furniture pick items that suit your storage needs and size. Don’t keep buying something and putting it in the room or on the walls.
• Pick a color you like that goes with the scheme and theme and paint the room with a low VOC (volatile organic compound) paint.

Ages four through nine – your interests matter less

• Introduce your child’s personality into the room by creating a new theme based on their interests, but with your guidance. Unless you want to re-do the room again in a two years do not follow a media based (cartoon, movie, TV show, computer game, etc.) theme.
• Let your child have some influence. It will be a guaranteed failure if you start with
• What color do you want to paint your room?
• Instead let them select paint colors from a group of colors you’ve chosen based on the theme.
• Caution: no matter how much a child likes red it should not be a wall color for their bedroom unless you want to encourage restless sleep and hyperactivity.

Wallcovering is easy to change. You can do the whole room or just a feature wall.

Give your children the guidance for a clutter-free life.

• Accessories. A previous theme can get a new life. If you want to forgo a literal theme at this in-between stage, it can be purely about a color scheme.
• Time for a bedding update. Change all of it, the comforter, duvet, sheets, bedskirt, introduce throw pillows of their choosing.
• Based on the child this also might be the time for a more significant desk or larger bed or young adult scaled furniture if necessary.
• I got to pick my paint colors light turquoise walls with bright yellow trim and then change them myself after a year because they did not work. Hey it was a valuable lesson about picking colors.
• Display is key. Teach them about rotating accessories if the shelves or bulletin board get full.

It is only one room, let them create their own interior. Throw rugs are a great way to add personality and colors as are carpet tiles.

These are just a few simple tricks to help you out at any stage of child rearing and guide you to when it is time for a kid room redo and how far to go.

Executive Summarized by : Lisa M Smith