Considering how fast children are growing up these days, designing a nursery can be very difficult.
Keeping up with constantly evolving and growing technological gadgets makes it even more difficult to find areas to store them.
There are of course many solutions that will transform each room into a three-dimensional Picasso work and make storage areas fun
These beautifully designed rooms, listed below, bring together practical and creative options that children and parents will enjoy equally.
Kids have very specific visions of how they want to decorate their bedrooms, and those ideas are also often inspired by epic movie sets and elaborate fairy tales backdrops
And let's face it, the only way their bedroom will emulate the interior of the Millennium Falcon is if they hit the minor-league lottery.
There’s a particular art to designing children’s rooms: They have to satisfy not only the paying client (mom and dad), but also the rooms’ pint-sized inhabitants. Children’s rooms can be a place for designers to have some fun, with fanciful colors or playful patterns, but they must also not feel totally out of place in the house as a whole.
Add on to that the fact that kids’ tastes and interests change lightning quick, and designing a child’s room can feel like a difficult puzzle.
We asked 11 designers to share their favorite kid rooms — and it just so happens many of them belong to the designers’ own children’s rooms. From sweet nurseries to big-kid quarters, these rooms show that while these spaces don’t get the most real estate in mainstream design magazines, they are no less stylish than any other room.
There is sleeping space for four kids, and each bunk has a rattan sconce, a plug for devices, and large storage drawers underneath.
Higgs notes that the constellation decals were a simple way to create a wallpaper look onto the white painted walls. “My favorite detail in the space is the woven can radiator cover I built in between the cubby beds under the window.
The crib canopy was designed for my first born, then remade in a black and white stripe when I had a baby boy, and then the original Brunschwig and Fils canopy went back up once little Lula was born,” says Allen, who notes that in a nursery, the crib is typically the focal point, and this design feature exaggerates it further.