HOW TO DESIGN A CHILDREN’S BEDROOM

Designing a children’s bedroom provides an exciting chance to engage with your little ones in a creative way. Their room can be seen as an opportunity to create a space that is a reflection of their personality and may even be the start of encouraging them to feel some sense of responsibility and ownership of an area of the family home.

The design process can also provide a fun occasion for the adults in the household to execute some more playful schemes into their homes. We like to try and mould this creativity into a personal yet age-appropriate space. In this blog, we’ll be providing some advice on designing a children’s bedroom and sharing some beautiful design inspiration.

Interior scheme

Exposure to colour and textured materials can help develop a child’s senses in the early stages of their life. For example, touching tactile materials and furnishings can have a calming effect and surrounding them with colour can spark creativity and inspire their imaginations, whilst even enhancing learning.

The above children’s bedroom is filled with pops of bold colour, celebrating bright shades in the accessories to keep the scheme fun and playful whilst retaining a smart style for this older child with the monochrome stripes and white cabinetry. The incorporation of a few bold colours or pattern through uniform geometric lines helps to ensure a strong palette doesn’t overwhelm.

A wall mural is another way to incorporate elements of your child’s personality into their room. A wall can be directly painted onto to translate a specific artistic vision or a high-quality image can be applied like wallpaper. We love the combined black, white and red wall mural created through enlarging this favourite family picture.

Children’s Bedroom Lighting

Fun lighting can transform a children’s bedroom. This is not only for aesthetic reasons but because lighting fundamentally affects children’s (and adult’s) biology. Light plays a central role in the functioning of the circadian rhythm – the natural process of regulating the sleep-wake cycling – telling our brain when to wake up and when to go to bed. This makes correct lighting perhaps more important in a children’s bedroom compared to any other bedroom (many of us are familiar with how a night of good sleep can transform a grumpy child!)

We recommend a lighting system that changes the colour and level of light throughout the day in line with your child’s routine. For more details on integrating a high-quality lighting system, please read our Luxury Interior Lighting blog. Utilising a lighting system to create subdued night lighting is also a great option.

Blackout blinds are ideal for providing complete protection from daylight during nap times or when the sun rises early in Summer. Valences are a lovely opportunity for adding beautiful patterns to the room, such as the pretty print you can see below which seamlessly matches the bedding. The curtains’ tactile bobble detail trim adds a further moment of playfulness to the room’s design which we just love.

Children’s Bedroom Storage

We have created some noteworthy storage solutions that maximise the use of space in children’s bedrooms. Incorporating storage containers into bespoke cabinetry is an easy approach to compartmentalising clutter, especially packing away small toys, whilst making them easier to find – both for you and your children!

Including additional storage where you can is particularly valuable in a children’s bedroom. In the below bedroom, we introduced a raised platform or mezzanine level in the room. We took advantage of this new level to sneak a secret drawer that disappears into the step. Also, take a peek at the hidden trundle bed that can be pulled from under the raised floor when a friend comes to stay.

To learn more about the Art of Organising, read our blog here.

Children’s Bedroom Workspace

A workspace is also likely to stay relevant as they grow up, graduating from an elementary play station to a do-not-disturb zone in their teenage years.

Just like a home office, there are a couple of key aspects to get right: an appropriately sized desk, matching adjustable chair to cope with their growth spurts, somewhere to clear all the work away (think good-looking file holders), a holder to encompass their favourite fluffy pens and task lighting for activities that require focused light.

As children’s bedrooms are typically smaller in the house, integrating a desk space with other furniture is an interesting opportunity to add a playful element to the layout whilst saving space. As you will have seen with the mural bedroom above, we created a headboard that not only was designed with integrated storage, but also extends the width of the room to become a neat workspace.

This integrated desk and loft bed space below is also a great use of space – we could have further integrated a wardrobe or additional shelving beneath the bed, depending on what you need in the room.

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