Designing a Room with Your Child in Mind

This is a very important task as a parent. It is an opportunity to create a space where your child can feel safe, where their personalities, talents, and dreams are proudly displayed, and where they can feel most themselves, truly home.

When we think about our homes, we want to divide our rooms into zones or areas that facilitate specific, related activities. That is, they are grouped to facilitate certain functions. Grouping rooms into these areas and providing the interior elements necessary for the desired activities to take place will ensure a comfortable and well-designed environment. Typically the three types of zones are social zones, work zones, and private zones. A bedroom falls into the private zone category, these are areas to retreat to. The primary functions of a bedroom are to provide a place for sleep, rest, dressing, and for keeping some personal belongings.

Here are some ideas for creating a child’s bedroom that are essential to making their bedrooms a space where they feel most safe and most known:

⁃ a Hygge Nook: a cozy chair or a bench seat for reading, journaling and taking a break when they need it

⁃ a place to display items that are special to them: shelves, picture frames, built-ins, on top of an armoire or dresser

⁃ a place for the mess: bins, trunks, or baskets that help them easily sort their items and maintain a clean living space

⁃ a “theme” or decor items and colors that feel like who they are

⁃ a restful space: keep this room (mostly) toy free and electronics free, help them learn to use their room for rejuvenation and create other spaces like playrooms, game-rooms and homework rooms for other purposes whenever possible

If your children are old enough, get them involved. For Beau’s room, we had several poster options for his wall & he chose the Star Wars poster.

We infused colors that felt like their personalities. When I see Beau, I see sunshine yellow and ocean blue. He’s my happy, sweet, fun-loving Boy and his room needed to feel like who he is. When I see Nellie, I see blushes, mauves, and some orange tones (like her hair). Nellie’s name is a family name on my great grandmothers side and Nellie is our little old soul, vintage themes felt right for her sweet space.

One more tip is that their tastes will change, so keeping their rooms “classic” enough to where it can grow with them is also a great idea. Posters instead of large murals of their current favorite super hero, neutral paint colors, etc. Furnishings that can be adapted for different uses are wise choices for these changing years. For example, a changing table in a nursery may later be used as a chest of drawers for an older child.

I hope that these Hygge Tips help you in your efforts to create bedrooms for your children that help them feel most safe, known, and loved.

XOXO,

The Hygge House