spaces for kiddos & teens
GUEST BEDROOM BEFORE: perfectly lovely for a real estate staging photo, but my son was DISMAYED to find out this was to be his bedroom
AFTER (turned 7yo's Star Wars room): a better view of the feature wall. Schematic Star Wars vehicle drawings, with an eight-frame gallery wall of MORE schematic drawings. Is the dresser top cluttered and are there books on the floor? Yes. Because a child lives here, and I didn't stage it for the photo to remove all personality. ;-)
BEFORE: lovely staged photo
AFTER: this little guy is obsessed with the Beatles and all rock n roll, has his own vinyl record player, and is really just a huge music nerd (like father like son). He asked for his room to have a "listening nook", et voilá! Is this instagram-worthy design? No. But that's less important than a child feeling at home in their space.
BEFORE: this bedroom was used as a home office with gargantuan, heavy, commercial-grade, particle board office furniture. Awful. Orange floors, brown furniture, yellow walls. I die a little inside when I see a room like this.
AFTER
BEFORE surprise Harry Potter birthday mini-makeover (this was years ago)
AFTER the owls visited
BEFORE: a basement bedroom reminiscent of a jail cell. Note the PLYWOOD closet doors that make up the entirety of one wall (at left). This was to be the bedroom of a teenage girl who is obsessed with antiques and asked for a "Moody, opium den vibe, without the opium."
AFTER: various thrifted rugs overlapping create a cozy pallet of jewel tones to go with the moody deep teal paint. The green leather stuffed chair and clover accent table are actual antiques (from a curbside find and an estate sake, respectively), and the green velvet chair is from Wayfair.
AFTER: a batik wall hanging cut in half became the curtains for this room, with an antique banker's lamp, antique sewing machine, and antique typewriter having pride of place.
how cool is this?
This is a basement rec room so not a child's bedroom per se, but the kids do spend a LOT of time here. I love the mix of color, different frames and canvases, and the natural wood on the larger piece at right.
detail of the wallpaper and a cool LEGO switchplate (3D printed, from Etsy) that you can actually attach little LEGOs to.