Designing Kids Rooms That Will Grow With Them
Kids grow up fast. One day they’re babies and the next they’re starting school and then they’re off to college before you know it.
When comes to designing your kid’s room, it can be hard to know where to start. You want it to fit their needs, style, and personality but those things certainly change over time.
Your baby and toddler-appropriate furniture and decor won’t necessarily work with they start to get older.
Their tastes and interests evolve quickly. One day they love the color orange, the next it’s green.
If you want to avoid completely redesigning your kid's room every couple of years while creating a design that they’ll love and be able to grow into keep reading.
Studio Mcgee
Design With the Rest of Your Home in Mind
Kids' rooms can be a jarring contrast to the rest of your home. To prevent that from happening, make sure the foundation of the room is in line with the design of the rest of your home.
These elements can include, flooring, wall color, window treatments, and/or overall color scheme.
Creating a neutral canvas that fits with your home’s aesthetic is a good starting point.
Country Living
Go Classic With Large or Pricey Design Elements
It may be tempting to create a theme based on what your kid loves, but as we established earlier this can change pretty quickly.
It’s best to stay neutral with your bigger, or more expensive, design elements. This means your flooring, wall color, area rugs, window treatments, and big-ticket furniture items.
Avoid trends that your kid will outgrow within a year or two, like that princess-themed or spaceship bed.
They may love now, but who knows how long that’ll last. Instead, go with a classic style of bed, and add their personality to it with bedding that they love.
Crate & Barrel
Select Multifunctional and TImeless Furniture
When you’re buying furniture think about incorporating multipurpose and classic pieces.
How do you know if something is timeless? Don’t just think about how it’ll work for their current phase of life but also their next and perhaps the one after that.
So instead of getting that adorable changing table for your baby's room, think about a dresser instead that you can also use as a changing table. When they no longer need the changing table, you can still use the dresser.
Once your kid is ready for their own bed, you may want to consider skipping the twin bed altogether and go right to a full or queen size bed they can use up through their teen years.
Go for a lot of built-in storage options. No matter the age of your children they’ll always have things that need to be tucked away to reduce clutter.
Also, refrain from buying kids-size furniture, unless you’re prepared to replace it within a few years. They’ll outgrow them quickly. Instead, opt for regular-size pieces and dress them up with accents that your kids love.
West Elm
Have Fun With Accessories and Accents
Keeping the foundation of the room neutral doesn’t mean your kid's room has to be boring. It is still their space after all so you can add their interests and personality to the decor.
You can incorporate this with bedding, artwork, toys, and accessories that can be swapped out as they grow and interests change.
Think about wall decals or peel and stick wallpaper that can be easily replaced vs. traditional wallpaper which they may outgrow.
Add some visual interest and playfulness by mixing classic patterns and different textural elements. This is a great way to add some fun instead of bold paint colors, which again who knows how long they’ll like.
This is also an area where your child can be more involved and let their personalities shine through. For example, have them choose what bedding they like vs. the bigger decisions like what color goes on the walls.
AHG Interiors
Focus on Comfort
Similar to how you create your own bedroom to be a retreat, think about this for your child as well.
The space feel should be calm and soothing with layers that add coziness. Just like you need a space to unwind and relax your child does as well.
To reduce overwhelm and clutter, remember, less is more.
AHG Interiors
Plan Ahead
Especially if you’re worried about making costly mistakes, the key is to put a solid plan together before you start executing things.
Before making certain design decisions or buying a piece of furniture - ask yourself how it will (or won’t) be used over time? If it’s expensive and realistically will only be used for a year or two, then perhaps you ought to rethink that purchase.
Modsy