Often children's rooms are very small or narrow. It's quite a challenge to organize a child's space there. All in all, just because a child is small doesn't mean he has few things. He even has a lot of them. Of course, with a few rules of decorating such a room, you can optically enlarge it and gain some space.
The first rule of designing a small room is to have a good layout of the zones.
What zones can we separate in a child's room?
- Sleeping zone that is simply a crib or growing bed. In this zone it is also worthwhile to include a place for books.
- Creative zone or desk; cabinet for painting supplies, crayons, glue.
- A play zone, which is a rug on which the child can play and a place to store toys
- The last zone is clothing storage
- The rest of the zones are individual and depend on your child's interests.
Remember that zoning is really about making a particular room serve us best and accommodate the user. Such a place serves us better and grows up with the child. Then nothing will surprise us as the Little Man grows up. Such a room should serve our child until about 6 years of age. At this age the child already needs a desk and a place adapted for learning.
Zones can merge and you don't have to separate them from each other. The creative zone can combine with toy storage. A sleep zone, with a bookcase.
Now I will show you how what rules to follow for small children's interiors, but not only. These are very universal rules.
- FLOOR- Ideally, the floor is fairly uniform. Probably the floor material and color is the same as in other parts of the house. But in the children's room an additional carpet or mat is very important. The largest possible carpet in bright colors will work very well. In terms of design, a minimalist version will work best, that is, without patterns and in a solid color. It can be a hemmed, fluffy carpet in size.
- WALLS- Very good in such rooms are light walls in shades of soft gray, sand, beige. In addition, I highly recommend you to use wallpaper in small rooms, which adds visually to the area. In this case, our striped wallpaper, stripes beige or peony strips. Linear delicate wallpapers in muted colors also look good in such small rooms. A good example is our peony wallpaper with a frill in blue i pink or forest motifs. Such a neutral version of wallpaper is also grids and dots. When it comes to neutral colors, you may be missing childish accents. You can use our wall stickers and stick them on a section of the wall near the play area, or simply stick them on doors or furniture.
- FURNITURE- In the case of furniture, I would definitely bet on built-ins in the form of custom cabinets, necessarily under the ceiling. This is not only a treatment that optically enlarges the room, but you will also gain additional storage space. It is also better to avoid disjointed individual pieces of furniture, such as dressers, tables, cabinets, etc. It is much better to use solutions such as combining a space for toys with a countertop for creative works, etc.
- TKANINES- I am curious if you have ever wondered how big a role fabrics play in interiors ? Often a child's room is about 8-12 m2, and the area of fabrics, such as curtains, drapes, bedspreads, bedding, decorative cushions and carpet is altogether much larger. This probably best illustrates just how crucial fabrics are. In small rooms, I recommend you very smooth fabrics but with beautiful textures. Quilts and decorative cushions can have delicate patterns in pastel colors.
- PLACES- A trilogy can be written about the failed wall galleries. And it's not that difficult. There is a sacred rule! Follow it! It is better to have one very large painting in a beautiful frame with passe part out than several smaller ones. Especially in small rooms this is very important. I invite you to our wall posters for children. We have a very large selection of them.
- COLORS- this rule basically applies to all the rules mentioned. Stick to a maximum of 3 colors. Preferably light and pastel colors. It is a good idea to prepare for yourself a selected color palette and when shopping, confirm for yourself whether the selected products fall within the selected color range.
When you stick to these 6 rules the children's room will be functional and much larger. A side effect will be that it will also be beautiful and timeless.