KidSpace Stuff blog posts covering interior design ideas for fitting kids into small spaces in your home.
Kids’ rooms are usually quite small, full of stuff, and often house more than one sibling. Need a bigger space but no room to expand? When you can’t enlarge a room, there are several subtle but helpful design tricks to help you make small rooms feel big. Pattern and Texture Pattern can help visually alter [...]
Depending on the size of the kid and the size of their closet, kids’ room closets can often be tagged for other uses. Kids love hideaways, whether under the eaves, under the stairs, or even under the table. Hideaways bring the world down to kid-size for just a little while. Make their closet more than [...]
No Closet in the kids’ room? No problem. All you need is the “no closet” closet. What is a closet anyway? It’s a small room within a room that is full of stuff. What we like best about a closet is the door….because it hides our unorganized stuff. Your grandparents didn’t have closets. Prior to [...]
Kids’ rooms are often the smallest in the house. Add to that the staggering amount of stuff they accumulate plus closets designed for adult use and out-of-control clutter becomes an issue. How can you maximize space in the smallest room when there’s no closet, the closet is an unorganized hole in the wall, or you [...]
Convertible sleeping options are actually quite simple when kids are holiday guests. Why? Pint sized bodies easily fit in nooks, crannies, and seldom-used corners which we covered in Part-1 about ways to convert built-in spaces. Now in Part-2, we cover another easy way to provide places to sleep without using built-ins…….dual-purpose furniture. Furniture with more [...]
Bunk rooms for pint-sized guests need not be a large room or separate bunk house. Converted porches and attic rooms can create the coziest of small space bunk rooms. For kid-sized bodies, these small spaces are the perfect solution to your need for multiple beds during holiday or vacation visits but only if they meet [...]
Depending on where you live, overnight visits from family and friends can be more frequent than just holidays or summer vacation. If you live in or are near a prime “destination” spot (aka the beach, sports stadium, historic sites, etc.), you can count on visitors. So, just where to you put them? Adults love guest [...]
Sleeping arrangements are an important part of any overnight visit but the comfort level doesn’t have to depend on how many guests rooms you have or the size of your home, especially when kids are holiday guests. With a little planning, you can easily have convertible sleeping options for kids (and that doesn’t include the [...]
“Stilts”– sets of posts or piles supporting a building above ground… …Or in this case, supporting a teen’s bed above the floor. A bed on stilts means different things at different ages. For younger kids, it’s a secret getaway or retreat. For tweens, it’s a platform for imagination. For teens? A bed on stilts [...]
Solitude is something everyone occasionally needs….sort of a mini-vacation to rest, read, or ponder life. That includes kids too. Kids use solitude for dreaming or imaginative play but that can be hard to do when they share a room with a sibling and privacy is a problem. With a little creativity, you can easily find [...]