| Creating your bedroom design ideas for your children's | | | | practicalities: the activities to cater for, the storage to |
| room should receive just as much thought and | | | | accommodate and comfort and security to attend to. |
| attention as designing nay other rooms in the house. | | | | Then there are the aesthetic considerations - also |
| I need my own space' is a familiar cry of the late | | | | very important. Who, for instance, cannot recall the |
| twentieth century. But very rarely do we relate this | | | | wallpaper of their room of formative years? So pause |
| lament to our children's lives. We are so often tempted | | | | a moment to think before reaching for that book of |
| to relegate them to the smallest rooms (where there | | | | clown wallpaper prints. Careful planning before you |
| is, in theory, less room to make a mess) and | | | | start decorating will ensure that your child will be safe, |
| somehow we don't imagine that their little lives could | | | | comfortable and happy. |
| possibly be so full of confusion and clutter as to require | | | | What activities is your child likely to perform in his/her |
| a well-thought-out, organized, private space all to | | | | room? To name but a few - sleeping, eating, playing, |
| themselves. | | | | craftwork, study and, last but not least, entertaining. It is |
| We forget about the pressures brought on by | | | | a good idea to create separate areas for each |
| bickering brothers and sisters, the claustrophobic life of | | | | activity so that the child who may spend many hours |
| the school room and the confrontations of a | | | | in this one room has some contrast between the |
| competitive playground, not to mention the constant | | | | different activities and so that 'messy' areas do not |
| attention of parents who 'don't understand'. | | | | intrude into other parts of the room - though this, of |
| If children are to survive and to develop into sane | | | | course, will depend upon the space available. |
| adulthood, they need all the help we can give them | | | | If two are to share one room, efforts should be made |
| and if, by allocating them their own special quiet space, | | | | to allocate specific areas for each child which 'belong' |
| we can help this along, then so much the better. | | | | to him/her and for which he/she is responsible. This will |
| The thought process needed for the planning of | | | | help to encourage growing children to feel more |
| children's rooms is very similar to that required for living | | | | responsible for their room in the future. |
| room designs as well. First naturally come the | | | | |