The creation of a children's room for two children often raises many questions and difficulties for parents. How to create a comfortable place for sleeping, studying, relaxing in a relatively modest space for two sometimes completely different people? At first glance, the task seems very difficult, but if you know small design tricks, dig a little in the psychology of the child and show imagination, it turns out that the layout of the children's room for two is a trifle business.
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The design of the room for two children depends on the mass of factors: gender, age, hobbies, etc. And before studying the planning methodology and other wisdom, it should be understood that each case is individual, and if you came across a photo of a children's room for two girls, does not mean at all that the same thing is suitable for your children. This is a very subtle psychological moment. You are the parents and you know better, but you create living space not for yourself, but for other people, even the most family. That is why future residents should take part in the choice of furniture, flowers, decor, layouts.
Planning of the children's room
When developing a layout, it is often not necessary to build on their own desires, but from the available quadrature and geometry of the premises. It is good if you have a spacious or medium -sized room of a square or rectangular shape at your disposal. In such sleeping places you can place along the wall, dividing them with a decorative arch or rack with shelves for books.
If you decide to make a nursery in a wide room, then it is better to put the sleeping places on the opposite walls, placing them mirrored. Near the window, written tables with shelves or racks for textbooks will fit. If the room, on the contrary, is too narrow, the best option would be either secret beds (hidden into the wall), or a bunk bed. In terms of ergonomics, the furniture has long taken a huge step from folding sofas, and there are a lot of interesting offers on the market.
If there is a niche in the room, you can “drown” the bed in it, thereby saving the free space (aters into the niche). There you can also attach several shelves or bedside boxes.
In a limited space, it is very convenient to place beds in the form of the letter "G". Forming such a corner zone, you save a lot of free space - you free up space along the walls and in the center of the room. You can come up with a convenient layout even for a children's room for two per 12 square meters. m or at 8 sq. m, as shown in the photo below, for example.
If we are talking about a room on the top floor (attic), you can completely beat the interior in an original way, adding curtains, carved letters, shelves and other elements.
It is worth telling a little about bunk beds. It has long been clear that they are ideal for small children's rooms, but there are a lot of variations of such furniture: a regular bed for 2 floors, with a slide instead of a ladder, two beds from above, below the workplace and so on. Also, a two -tier bed can be a whole complex consisting of sleeping places, a desk and cabinets for clothes, books, toys. The beds with a perpendicular arrangement of sleeping places are very interesting. In this regard, a child sleeping on the ground floor is more comfortable, because space is freed over him. In addition, such a design allows you to organize more shelves, hang lamps, etc.
If you get in the store in the store beds with rolling mechanisms, do not deprive them of attention - they are quite comfortable and compact. The same applies to leaning elements when the bed in the assembled form can be located at the level of the clothing cabinet, and before going to bed it is lowered into the working position.
Ideas for design:
- For children of different sexes, the walls in the room can be painted in different colors (contrasting), thus dividing the territory. To combine and harm the interior, use the overall theme in the decor, for example, photos or pictures in the same framework, furniture, jewelry, stickers or stencils on the walls.
- If children are actively learning a foreign language, emphasize this to help them in learning. If this is English, the room can be arranged in the style of London street with red telephone booths and two -story buses drawn on the wall. If it is Japanese, on the walls you can depict a crane against the background of the rising sun, hieroglyphs, windows curtain with bamboo blinds, etc.
- If your children are delighted with some fairy tale, arrange a room in the appropriate style. For example, if it is Harry Potter, recreate a similar interior, draw an owl and wizards on the walls. If the guys are delighted with cosmic Odysseus and science fiction, turn the ceiling into a starry sky. The number of ideas is truly limitless, but the first thing you need to find out the preferences of the future residents of the room.
Zoning the children's room
The theme of zoning of space is extremely relevant, especially when it comes to designing a children's room for two. Most often, children, even twins, have completely different characters, preferences and hobbies, and therefore each of them is vital for their own space. Most think that personal space is necessary from adolescence, but this is a gross mistake-having his own zone, the child will develop faster and more actively show interest in something.
The zoning of the room should be done based on the age of the children. So, if these are preschoolers, then their studies are not yet in the first place, but the game activity prevails. Therefore, it is necessary to highlight a place for sleep and rest (games). Schoolchildren need to add a place for classes (desk and shelves). Further, if a child shows interest in sports, you can equip a sports corner - a Swedish wall, dumbbells. But at the same time, do not forget that there are two children, and in a good way for everyone needs a separate working area.
Zoning can be done using a rack, placing it as a partition between two written tables, or in general, dividing them one room into two. If the quadrature does not allow, zoning can be purely visual - using color and decor. It not only looks beautiful, but also has a powerful psychological effect, denoting the boundaries and creating the mood for a particular zone. That is why, if you decide to operate with color, you need to correctly choose a gamut for each segment. Calm tones should prevail in the sleeping area, in the working one more saturated, but not “screaming”, so as not to distract attention, but in the game zone you can give free rein fantasy. We will talk in more detail on this topic in the next chapter.
Useful advice: in the working area, try to make as many drawers and shelves as possible so that for each item there is a place, otherwise everything will puzzle on the table and in the corners.
Not only painting walls and arrangement of furniture, but also flooring, helps to divide the space into zones. The workplace should be clean and easily cleaned (chips from pencils, pieces of plasticine, paints after drawing), so the carpet is completely irration there. But where he is the place itself is in the game zone where you can lie, attach or just sit on the floor and play cars or dolls. If the room has a sports corner, lay mats there.
The color scheme of the nursery
Repair planning consists of several stages, one of which is the choice of color scheme. Based on it, you can already select coatings that would allow you to realize the plan, but not vice versa. But no matter how you act, never use only one color for the entire room - it is boring and impractical.
Why is the painting of the room in one color bad? First of all, even if you choose the most cheerful, cozy and beautiful color to your taste, it will be boring if you do not properly support it with a decor. In any case, there should be bright spots, especially in the children's room.
If you equip a children's room for two boys, a snow -white shade of ivory, which is so to your liking, will very soon be enriched with more juicy shades - traces of fingers, soiled in paint or ink, for example. Remember that children are small researchers of a huge and new world, who are completely incomprehensible why you can draw on a white sheet of paper, but on a white wall it is impossible. But still imagine that you painted the room in a bright color and each time you pull the children, demanding not to draw on the walls, not to touch the walls with dirty hands, etc. Kids will simply become uncomfortable to live in a room where you can not fully enjoy life. That is why you need to build on the preferences of children, making their constructive amendments, but nothing more.
Optimal tones for nepomed boys-graphite, steel, cold shades of blue and green. For a boy and a girl, you can zone the room with blue and purple flowers with light inserts. Feel free to use interior stickers and thematic painting. For example, on half the girl you can depict a fabulous lock, and on the side of the boy - a knight on a horse or a ship with pirates.
Another reason why the use of several shades when painting walls is more profitable is the ability to visually expand the space and use it more efficiently. For example, if children will live in the room, at the age of which it is customary to draw on any surfaces, the lower part of the walls to a height of up to 70-100 cm is better to cover with a detergent latex paint not too light color. And if you paint the ceiling with white paint and capture 20-30 cm of the height of the walls, the room will seem much higher than it really is.
Furniture for the nursery
We already briefly touched the topic of double beds, but in the children's room, in addition to the place for sleeping, there should be many other useful furniture. But before you think about how to make space, it is necessary to understand that furniture for a children's room for two should be special - safe, compact, ergonomic and convenient. Cabinets, tables and beds should be strong, so that if you wish, you can climb and jump - children's games are unpredictable.
Children's furniture should be without sharp corners, otherwise regular bruises, abrasions and bruises are provided. Do not choose cabinets with glass inserts or glass shelves, it is better if everything is as simple and natural as possible (wood, metal). Find options with an abundance of drawers, so that for each thing there is a place, and nothing is lying on the floor. The clothing cabinet should be convenient and understandable (this applies to adult cabinets). If the child has to rummage there for more than two minutes to find his favorite T -shirt or socks, then the cabinet is incorrect, and does not accommodate all things (on the other hand, there can be too much things and you need to review the wardrobe).
Pay special attention to lighting. One lamp in the middle of the ceiling is completely not enough - there should be a lamp above each workplace, and a cold spectrum, since the warm relaxes and does not allow concentrating. In the sleeping zone of light as such, it is not required, but there you can install a nightlight in the form of a funny little animal - both decoration and scattered lighting. Such a nightlight will allow the child to navigate at night if he wants to get to drink or to the toilet.
When creating the interior of the children's room for two children, you should remember the environmental friendliness of each chosen object, whether it is furniture, finishing material or lighting. It is better to take paints on a water -based (acrylic or latex), since they dry quickly, create a strong but breathing coating and do not emit harmful substances (a good sign of suitable paint - lack of a pungent odor). As for furniture, it is recommended to give preference to wood with a moisture -resistant coating, so that it is easier to take care of. Plastic in this regard is also good, but it is not strong enough.
There are a lot of options for a children's room for two, but a decisive voice should still belong to children. Therefore, before getting down to business, prepare photos of future furniture to choose from, a photo of the designs from magazines and the Internet, a palette of colors that you would like to cover the walls, show all this to the children and create a room for their dreams.
Children's room design for two: photo
