KidSpace Stuff blog posts covering interior design ideas for teen rooms.
Nailheads on furniture is nothing new. Actually it is quite an old style technique from the 1500’s. So when your teen wants to attach decorative brass nails to their furniture because “nailheads are hot!”, just smile and watch history repeat itself. It was during the Renaissance period that brass nails were used to attach fabric [...]
The next color in our kids’ room color scheme series is “lovely lavender”. (Can’t resist using a little alliteration now and then.) Color influences us physiologically as well as emotionally. Color can influence our moods as well as provoke reactions—just ask marketing gurus why they use specific colors in specific places! Lavender is known for [...]
Kids’ first association with color names is usually a box of crayons….so don’t be surprised when they ask for a periwinkle, razzmatazz, or cornflower color scheme for their room. Green Sprout isn’t one of Crayola’s colors but paint names from nature are common. Nature is the ultimate source of every color palette. The eye makes [...]
Reusing shutters in kids’ rooms is much like using reclaimed doors covered in the previous post of this series. The biggest difference is size. Doors are generally large but shutter sizes are as varied as window sizes…..small to wall size. Need a few ideas on how to reuse old shutters in kids’ rooms? Take a [...]
Today’s kids’ room furniture essentials post is about the softer side of teen and family room furniture or in other words…..fabric covered foam. You’ve seen it. You’ve lounged on it. Your kids love it! You see the outside but do you know what’s inside? Fabric covered foam furniture (say that fast 5 times!) can be [...]
What is the most frequent request by little girls when designing their dream bedroom? A canopy bed. Not all rooms are large enough for a full canopy, so when the room is too small, a lovely bed crown canopy is the solution. Crown canopies can be made several ways: Entirely from wood—painted, jeweled, or otherwise [...]
Selecting appropriate furniture for kids’ rooms can be a daunting job or a joyful task. Using metal furniture in baby nurseries, kids and teen rooms can be one of the daunting tasks because it takes a little more care than usual in selection. Metal furniture ranges from elaborately traditional to sleekly modern and makes a [...]
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 [...]
How exciting would it be to have your own Christmas card design become a sculptural icon, a postage stamp, and be remembered almost 50 years later? That’s what happened to the iconic “LOVE” design by American artist Robert Indiana. LOVE letters are popping up now as trendy teen room accessories. The original design consisted of [...]
Color can be used to make large rooms feel cozy or small rooms feel more open. Since kids’ rooms are generally smaller, a soft teal color scheme is a fabulous way to make small feel big. A monochromatic color scheme enlarges space by using just one color, but in varying intensities from light to dark. [...]