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Room for two: boy and girl shared bedrooms

July 14, 2014

Sharing a room is fun when you’re a kid. Sometimes though it’s not just about the fun but a necessity if you’re short on space. While same sex shared rooms may seem easier to decorate, boy and girl shared rooms can also work really well with a little imagination and thought. From creating a neutral space to having specific sides decorated differently I’ve rounded up 5 of the most beautiful unisex shared rooms to inspire you:

Using lots of white in the room means you can add pops of colour with boy/girl specific accessories and toys just like they’ve done in the unisex shared room above. With all the white in the room, no bright colour is off limits.

Here the boys side is decorated in blue while the girls side is decorated in creamy florals. The similar prints and complimentary colours bring the room together even though each kid has their own side.

Grey is one of my favourite colours for any kids room including a shared bedroom. I love the different beds and how they’ve used wall stickers to personalise each space. This room is a unisex space but with the addition of accessories, toys and wall decorations it becomes more girly on one side and more masculine on the other.

An all white, minimal space is yet another way of creating a shared boy girl bedroom. In this room, there is nothing too specific about each side except for a few soft toys on each bed. The decor is simple and neutral to suit both sexes.

From all white and minimal, this is a room exploding with colour. Bold, bright unisex colours thrown together create a great shared space for boy and girl. There are no boy or girl sides here, just a complete shared space that works equally for either sex.

See more of these rooms here: one | two | three | four | five

5 fun ways to customise your kids wardrobe

July 9, 2014

When thinking about updating a kids room, you don’t always have to start from scratch. There are lots of easy ways to add a fresh look without completely re-decorating and turning it in to a mammoth project. One of my favourite ways to easily refresh a child’s room is turning the wardrobe in to a feature piece. Wardrobes are one of the largest pieces of furniture in most bedrooms including kids rooms. So instead of looking at them as boring must-haves, I love the idea of using the the wardrobe fronts as a space to be creative. With a little bit of imagination, wardrobes can become a really fun feature piece in a kids bedroom.

Here are 5 fun ways to add a some personality to any wardrobe:

1. A quick and easy, yet striking way to make your wardrobe feel very much a part of the room is to paint it the same colour as the wall. This gives quite a dramatic look and works especially well with bold colours as opposed to whites or creams.

2. Instead of creating a feature wall, turn your kids wardrobe in to one. Wallpaper the doors in colours and styles that match the rest of the room decor. As the image shows, using different but complimentary wallpapers is a good idea to keep it looking interesting. I’m loving the vintage wallpaper look so much that I’m tempted to try it myself.

3. Wall stickers aren’t just for walls. They a great option for almost anywhere including adding some fun to a wardrobe. A simple white wardrobe can be transformed in to something unique. And the best part of using stickers is that you can easily change the look as often as you like. Instead of stickers, for a really personal touch, you could even stick your child’s artworks on to the wardrobe doors making a little gallery space.

4. This is such a great idea. Paint the doors in chalkboard paint and your kids have a blank canvas. Each day they can create a new master piece, rub it out and start again the next day. And I’m sure this huge canvas will be a hit when your kids have friends over too.

5. For a subtler look, wallpaper the inside of a wardrobe in a bold print or pattern so you can only see the splash of colour when the wardrobe doors are open. You could also go one step further and paint the wardrobe in a complimentary colour or just stick with white for a more understated feel.

There are lots of ways to add your own personal touch to your kids room. I especially like the idea of customising furniture because it means that you can bring an old piece back to life or you can buy an inexpensive piece of bedroom furniture from places like Homebase and give it your own creative touch. It’s a fun project to let your kids get involved in and the best part is, it’s not permanent so you can change the look as often as you like.

This post is brought to you in partnership with Homebase. All content, words and ideas are my own. Thank you for supporting my work with carefully selected partners that support this blog.

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Fun with your floors!

June 9, 2014

I’m always looking for creative and interesting ways to refresh a room or to give it a new lease of life. One easy way of doing this is to paint the walls a different colour or wallpaper just one wall in the room. Or you could simply move the furniture around the room, add a few new cushions and it will look quite different. Recently I came across some really amazing painted floors and thought it was just the best way to give an old room a new look. This could work in any room where you don’t have carpet but I like it best for a kids room. You can be as bold as you dare or as subtle as you want and with a little effort you can keep updating the look as your child grows up.

As the pictures above show, painting stripes works really well – how cool is that rainbow floor? I also like the idea of going for one solid colour like the pink floor which works so well against the white walls and the (gorgeous) yellow cot or for a bolder look, how striking is that green floor? For a more vintage feel, those subtle diamond shapes add bags of character to the room and are my favourite of them all. Alternatively painting polka dots or a few little geometric shapes would look really fun too. And you don’t even have to paint the whole floor if that seems too much, instead paint around the furniture or pick one area of the room. I’ve even seen kids rooms where they’ve painted a hopscotch board! So many ways to get creative with your floors.

Painting your floors is a great way to brighten a room that already has floors down and also a cost-effective way to re-decorate a kids room or to refresh tired carpets. You can lay down some inexpensive flooring from places like Carpetright and then customsie it so it is totally unique to you. And it’s such a fun way to add some character to a room, especially a kids room.

This post is brought to you in partnership with Carpetright. All content, words and ideas are my own. Thank you for supporting my work with carefully selected partners.

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5 inspiring pastel kids rooms

February 25, 2014

If you’re not in to bold, bright colours but on the other hand find white spaces too blah, pastels can work really well for your nursery or kids room. With pastels you can choose to go with just one tone keeping it more minimal or you can mix a range of pastel shades to create a more colourful room. Here are 5 pastel rooms to inspire you:

This is a beautiful minimal space by Aurelie Lecuyer with pastel walls that are complimented with pastel accessories like the bedding and cushions. I love how the colours don’t take over the room but instead it’s that vintage cot that really shines and everything else works so well with it.

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Room for two…

January 14, 2014

Recently, a friend of mine was debating about whether to separate her two kids or leave them together in one room. As kids, my brother and I always shared a room. Even though we could have had separate rooms, my parents always kept us together. I have to admit it was a lot more fun that way. What’s better than having a partner in crime when you sneak around after being put to bed? Or when you hide under the covers with a torch and play for hours, with your parents none the wiser? So of course my advice to her was to keep them together without question. And to convince her i even offered to find her some inspiration for shared kids rooms. These were my favourite finds and so I’m sharing them here in case they inspire you too.

Image credits: one | two | three | four

Introducing Petit Home…

June 10, 2013

Today, I’m delighted to introduce you to my newest sponsor Petit Home. As the name suggests, Petit Home is a shop filled with delightful home accessories and decorations for babies and kids. The owner Amelie is French so you’ll find many beautiful French brands in her store including some of my favourites like April Showers, Mimi’Lou and Zu. In addition to the French brands, Amelie has carefully selected a few other brands that also have bags of style.

In the UK it’s not always easy to find some of the most covetable French kids decor brands but with UK based Petit Home you have exactly that and all under one roof. From bedding to wall art and lighting, you could easily kit out your entire nursery or kids room from Petit Home. I love that Amelie has chosen products that are sometimes fun, sometimes quirky and sometimes beautiful, giving us a range of styles to choose from. While Petit Home has some of my favourite kids decor brands on offer, today I’m really loving that whimsical baby rabbit lamp… so crazy cute! I’m so glad to have Petit Home on board and I hope you enjoy their offerings as much as I do.

In the mood for colour…

April 30, 2013

Lately I’ve been obsessing over black and white interiors but every once in a while I see bold and bright kids rooms popping with colour and I change my mind. Today is one of those times… when I saw these rooms I fell in love with colour all over again. We all know that kids adore colour. Have you ever seen a child colour in a picture in one or two or even just three colours? Neither have I! These rooms work especially well for me because they’ve all used white or very light backgrounds and then added the brightest accents in a range of colours.

Image credits: 1. petit vanou… 2. decorators notebook… 3. kids room… 4. skona hem…

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Little things I’m loving…

February 6, 2013

I have a folder on my laptop called ‘little things’ where all the inspiring and beautiful things, humorous things, quirky things and the things that make me smile get put away. Today I thought I would share some of my current favourites:

Love this simple DIY shelf to store all those little toys.

I want to adopt these quirky hand made twins!

I want to try and make this gorgeous DIY pierrrot style collar.

Love the neon and pastel colour scheme and that beaded hanging light.

Pretty pastel rooms…

January 4, 2013

I’m thinking about re-decorating my daughters room. When she was born I knew she would be in my room for ages so doing up her room wasn’t a priority. When she eventually moved out we did up her room bit by bit rather than plan it fully from the start. While it’s sweet, I think we’re ready for a change. So I’ve been hunting around for some inspiration especially for the colour scheme but I keep coming back to the idea of pops of bold and bright colour with lots of white which I think can be fun for a kids room. That was until I saw these pastel rooms. I hadn’t really considered a pastel room but now I’m totally smitten with the idea. The soft, pale colours, especially the minty green with an abundance of white does look stunning and very elegant I think. I love all 4 of these rooms but my favourite has to be the first one. Pastel may just be the way to go!

Image credits: 1 & 4. Mokkasin 2. Nordic Bliss 3. Jordgubbar med mjolk

A hint of pink…

November 2, 2012

One of the reasons I started this blog was because I felt so strongly about moving away from the whole blue for boy/pink for girl ethos. I have nothing against pink and blue and I actually like both colours in moderation, but that is the key for me. Pink is just one colour in a world where there are so many wonderful shades so why restrict your child to one colour? To me it’s like eating the same thing everyday for months… how spectacularly boring would that be? I’m really not keen on the whole pink worn from head to toe look, or a room painted pink filled with pink toys, pink furniture, pink clothes… you know what I mean. But when used sparingly with other colours both pale pink and fuchsia can add a wonderfully girly and sweet touch to any room. I went in search for some kids rooms that have used a bit of pink and I found these 5 which I loved. My favourite is probably the third one where they’ve painted the floor pink (what a great idea) and it looks so stunning against the bright yellow crib. I also really like the first room which uses just one bold, bright pop of pink against a white background and then compliments it with other bold colours. Don’t you think a hint of pink works much better than a pink overload?

Image credits: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.