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Not Just a Fad: Organic Kids' Bedrooms
Decorate with natural materials to ensure your children's bedrooms stand the style test of time
One of the decorating traps parents can fall into when creating their kids’ bedroom is, well, making it too childish – because kids grow up fast! (Remember that Barbie-print wallpaper that followed you into your teens?)
So before you start, consider a neutral and natural base for your young ones’ rooms, so the spaces can more easily evolve over time. Throw out the ubiquitous plastic and embrace the organic with these tips for creating sophisticated rooms with natural elements.
So before you start, consider a neutral and natural base for your young ones’ rooms, so the spaces can more easily evolve over time. Throw out the ubiquitous plastic and embrace the organic with these tips for creating sophisticated rooms with natural elements.
Max your organics
This room goes all out and really commits to the natural aesthetic. The spectrum of neutral hues and materials – wicker, wood, cork, sheepskin and bamboo – builds up to form a space so organic it could be outdoors. It’s the perfect spot for a rainy afternoon indoors…
This room goes all out and really commits to the natural aesthetic. The spectrum of neutral hues and materials – wicker, wood, cork, sheepskin and bamboo – builds up to form a space so organic it could be outdoors. It’s the perfect spot for a rainy afternoon indoors…
Give them some rope
Rope is a lovely way to add decorative texture to a room. This rope and wood ladder adds style and function to these bunks, and is sure to make going to bed feel more fun for little ones.
Rope is a lovely way to add decorative texture to a room. This rope and wood ladder adds style and function to these bunks, and is sure to make going to bed feel more fun for little ones.
Add a wooden accent
This sweet unisex nursery is made even sweeter with wooden furniture and accessories in keeping with the room’s pale pastel palette. Stick to minimal accents for the scheme to really work.
Discover more ideas for gender-neutral nurseries
This sweet unisex nursery is made even sweeter with wooden furniture and accessories in keeping with the room’s pale pastel palette. Stick to minimal accents for the scheme to really work.
Discover more ideas for gender-neutral nurseries
Choose sisal
Hard-wearing, beautiful and affordable sisal rugs are an enduring favourite of the design world. They’re also brilliantly tough and resilient in the face of rampaging toddlers. Available in an array of natural hues, the irregularities in the weave will give a room an organic aesthetic.
Go for soft shapes like this circular rug in a playroom or shared space to keep the look friendly for kids and adults alike.
More: How to Arrange Furniture Around Rugs of Every Shape
Hard-wearing, beautiful and affordable sisal rugs are an enduring favourite of the design world. They’re also brilliantly tough and resilient in the face of rampaging toddlers. Available in an array of natural hues, the irregularities in the weave will give a room an organic aesthetic.
Go for soft shapes like this circular rug in a playroom or shared space to keep the look friendly for kids and adults alike.
More: How to Arrange Furniture Around Rugs of Every Shape
Build your own ‘quiet time’ nook
A window nook in which to read or while away the hours playing with toys is the perfect addition to a sophisticated playroom. Create a characterful area using mismatched planks of timber fixed to a frame or over a pair of low storage boxes. Top with plain linens wrapped around cut-to-size foam for an effortlessly laid-back look.
A window nook in which to read or while away the hours playing with toys is the perfect addition to a sophisticated playroom. Create a characterful area using mismatched planks of timber fixed to a frame or over a pair of low storage boxes. Top with plain linens wrapped around cut-to-size foam for an effortlessly laid-back look.
Show off their natural treasures
Encourage exploring and foraging by displaying your little ones’ finds from adventures in the park, forest or on the beach. A boxy unit like this one provides plenty of display spaces for everything from weathered sticks to special stones.
Encourage exploring and foraging by displaying your little ones’ finds from adventures in the park, forest or on the beach. A boxy unit like this one provides plenty of display spaces for everything from weathered sticks to special stones.
Be a basket case
Busy family thoroughfares don’t have to lack style. Mix and match tactile wicker baskets in different shapes and colours for quick storage of hats, gloves, scarves and shoes. Baskets that lift down make it easy for kids to locate their things, while a cotton-covered bench seat aids shoe-tying.
Busy family thoroughfares don’t have to lack style. Mix and match tactile wicker baskets in different shapes and colours for quick storage of hats, gloves, scarves and shoes. Baskets that lift down make it easy for kids to locate their things, while a cotton-covered bench seat aids shoe-tying.
Branch out
Create a nursery straight out of a Disney movie by using a foraged branch to make a simple and striking mobile. Hang it up with natural string and adorn with feather-light bird ornaments – or why not suspend photos from the branches for an introduction to the family?
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What do you think of neutrals and nature for furnishing kids’ spaces? Share your thoughts in the Comments section.
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Create a nursery straight out of a Disney movie by using a foraged branch to make a simple and striking mobile. Hang it up with natural string and adorn with feather-light bird ornaments – or why not suspend photos from the branches for an introduction to the family?
TELL US
What do you think of neutrals and nature for furnishing kids’ spaces? Share your thoughts in the Comments section.
MORE
10 Kids’ Room Updates That Last the Distance
The Importance of Colour During Your Child’s Early Years
21 Things Only People Living With Kids Will Understand
This reclaimed bedhead stands out beautifully against the clean lines of the white tongue-and-groove walls. Teaming rustic elements with country charm makes for a grown-up and characterful teenager’s room.