A tastefully decorated, neat, ergonomic room plays no less important role in the upbringing of the child than talking about the beautiful and appeals for cleanliness. Reasonable planning of a small children’s room, which has everything you need and still has enough space for games and creativity, creates ideal conditions for the development of the child.

All parents aspire to ensure that children have a personal room, and that it is furnished in accordance with the age and individual needs of the son or daughter. It is here that the child learns to maintain order independently, protect things, create beauty around him.

Adults, developing the layout of a small children’s room, create for the baby a certain standard of a comfortable, rational, beautiful lifestyle. Becoming an adult, a person subconsciously strives for the same model in the design of housing, trying not to reduce, and raise the bar.

Pros of a small child

Why, when discussing the planning of the room, we immediately talk about a small child?

First of all, because this is the reality of our days. Most parents allocate the smallest room to the children’s room, as the layout of a modern apartment often leaves no other options – an “adult” bedroom, with an indispensable wardrobe or built-in closet, can not be accommodated in this room.

Secondly, a small child is not a cause for grief. With a successful layout of this room all the advantages of this choice for the child will manifest themselves, and there are quite a few of them:

1. The child’s personal space is scaled with himself – the child gets his little house, in which he feels protected.
2. No matter how many toys are scattered, they can still be quickly assembled – because everything is close.
3. The same can be said about things.
4. If there are two children living in the room, they have practically no place to fight, but there is where to be secreted.
5. It is in a small room that dolls and books with which the child is friends are especially cozy.
6. If you want to run – at the disposal of the whole apartment.

All of the above applies to toddlers, but what does a teenager live in such a room? Strange as it may seem, there are lots of advantages, only priorities change.

1. This room is his untouchable private space.
2. Parents do not enter the room for their things – there is no room for their cabinets and shelving.
3. You can arrange a creative mess, but to the arrival of friends quickly clean up.
4. Friends like to come to visit, they like this little den.
5. Here, only what is needed, everything that has become unnecessary – is immediately thrown away or distributed.
6. The teenager periodically makes the redevelopment himself, decorates the space in accordance with his own preferences and ideas about convenience, originality and functionality.

 

As you can see, the small room forms the child’s character – independent, thoughtful, independent, enterprising – the main thing is to choose the right layout of the child from the very beginning.

Small – this is what?

It is necessary to say that the concept of “small children” is rather blurry, and before discussing possible layout options, we will determine what size of room is meant. In the projects of famous designers, a small one is sometimes called a nursery, comparable in size to that of a modern apartment of a young family. Let’s be realistic: a small children’s room is a room of 8 square meters. m. (Sometimes it is even placed in the adapted premises of 6-7 square meters, although this is prohibited by construction standards) and up to 12 square meters. m. And 12 sq.m. – this is not such a small room for one child, but certainly very small for two or three.

What is really important

In dreams everyone sees the room of his beloved child, spacious, bright, with magnificent comfortable furniture and bright accessories. When it comes to a small room, it is especially important to decide what is really important for a child’s good development, and what is secondary.

Let’s try to highlight the moments that must be taken into account in order to develop an optimal layout of the children’s room, even if it is small. Immediately make a reservation, often they come into conflict with each other, and the decision that you will take will reflect your personal priorities in matters of raising children.

Health

The health of the child, who spends most of the time in the walls of a small nursery, is most affected by the environmental friendliness of the materials.

To the choice of furniture, finishing materials, floor and ceiling coating should be treated especially carefully. No matter how you ventilate the room, if you use synthetic materials not recommended for children – plastic panels, cheap linoleum, polyvinyl chloride, particle boards, vinyl wallpaper – the concentration of harmful substances in the air can exceed the permissible standards.

Materials that can be safely recommended for children – high-quality linoleum, laminate, wooden parquet, we admit carpet – provided that it is very easy to clean and wash. On the walls and ceiling – paper wallpaper or painting with water-based paints.

Furniture is preferred from solid wood. It is not necessary to use expensive wood species, pine and birch – an excellent alternative for children. Again, metal beds – fashioned, delicate – come into fashion, they bring to light little airy lightness and from the point of view of ecology are absolutely safe.

Psychological comfort

The psychological comfort of children depends not so much on the layout of the small children’s room as on the degree of illumination and aesthetics.

The smaller the window in the nursery, the greater its impeccable cleanliness and the transparent weightlessness of the curtains. Do not welcome the partition, obscuring any corner of the room. Natural sunlight is an indispensable condition for healthy development, physical and mental.

Color plays a big role in creating a child-friendly atmosphere. Unconditional favorites of children’s – pure, light pastel colors.

Purity

Easy room cleaning accustoms children to cleanliness much more efficiently than instructive conversations and the persistence of parents: we must take this moment into account when planning a small nursery.

When choosing materials for decoration, furniture, evaluate how quickly they get dirty, and whether it is possible, and how simple, to wash them – especially for light surfaces. We agreed to be realistic? Sometimes it is easier to achieve a sense of comfort and order in the boy’s room, decorating it in dark colors, brown and blue. It’s too dark? But this is much better than stained light walls and grumbling mom, armed with a stain remover.

Development

The physical, aesthetic and intellectual development of the child depends on the layout of the small children’s room.

To stimulate a child to exercise and give vent to his energy, it is necessary even in a small room to leave enough room for tumbling, albeit at the expense of shelves and lockers. Now you can find miniature, but full-featured sports corners, which are mounted, occupying half a square meter of area.

For intellectual development, you need a comfortable playing corner and a table for reading, drawing and modeling, and for schoolchildren – a work area.

The thoughtful and stylish design of the child reflects on the aesthetic development of the child no less than the activities of children’s artistic creativity, but for him one must also take a place. In addition to the worktable, you can install on one of the walls “exhibition board” – a special perforated plate, which is convenient to attach children’s drawings and handicrafts. For the youngest, many parents divert part of the wall for drawing – in this case, as long as the child does not grow up, white wallpaper (“canvas” for the first masterpieces) is re-glued as needed.

Security

Safety in a small children’s room assumes, first of all, the absence of sharp corners and serving accessories, which can be injured.

Given that when planning a small child is often used the second level, all the stairs leading to the mezzanine or to the upper shelves of cabinets should be absolutely reliable.

General principles of planning a small children’s room

Children have a universal purpose: here the child plays, learns, sleeps, which is why the zoning is based on their layout, but in a very small children’s room it can be very conditional – one has a playing area, one has a work area, and the other has a bed. Any partitions, even low, or division of space by furniture in a small room do not have a washout – they just will not leave us any useful space.

Proceeding from this, it is necessary to allocate a zone of night rest, and then, in accordance with age and individual needs – zones for games, sports, study, daytime rest – but in total there should be no more than three or four.

The difficulty of a small room is that it is difficult for a child to concentrate on one lesson. Around, very close, a lot of distractions. He sat down to paint – and next to a bright book. Does the lessons – a favorite doll and looks into the eyes. I sat down for the synthesizer – the physics textbook on the shelf reminds me of the coming exam.

The main task of zoning a small children’s room, especially a schoolchild’s room, is that only the things that are directly related to his occupation get to the child’s field of vision, all the features of the layout are related to this.

As already mentioned, in the tiny children’s zoning “around the perimeter” – the most common, but not the only one.

Little baby for the baby – no surprises

No matter how close the room might seem, you can turn it into a comfortable nursery for a baby or a preschool child.

For the baby, there is no problem – a changing table on a bright spot, a cot by the wall, which does not fall direct sunlight, a small chest of drawers and a basket with a lid for dirty laundry – that’s all the baby needs. It’s great if the chair for a nursing mother is located here. Children’s rug and large boxes of toys – this is what he will need very soon, but for this place is always enough.

When the child rises to his feet, he learns the basics of independence, there are usually no great difficulties with planning, but by that time the children’s room for a small child has to be designed so that he can distinguish the purpose of different zones.

A bed and a chest of drawers is the place where he prepares to go to bed and dresses when he wakes up. Low cabinets, racks or chests are houses where toys are hidden for the night to play with him again on the rug in the morning. And, finally, a small children’s table with a chair – the prototype of the future workplace, where the kid learns the first skills of drawing, looking at books and drawing up pyramids. By this time, Mom’s chair usually moves to another room to make room for the games.

Often in the nursery there is a high locker or shelf at an inaccessible height – where the mother stores useful ointments, dangerous bottles and various small things that she treats, cleanses, combs her baby. For a small child, the shelf is preferable – it does not take up space and is safer in the sense of restricting access to medicines.

No matter how small the children’s room, in its planning it is necessary to provide a sports mini-corner, they are very compact, 80X60 cm.

Color solution – soft pastel shades with the inclusion of several bright accents – they can become curtains, furniture, rug.

Secrets of the planning of the nursery school for the younger student

Features of the layout of a small children’s room for a junior schoolboy are related to the fact that he needs to learn to clearly separate the time for the game, rest and time allocated for the homework. Let the room and a small, but its zoning should be done so as not to distract the child from the lessons. Therefore, the key isolated zone is the working one – compact, but sufficiently isolated from the others.

To emphasize the special status of the work area will help a low podium at the window, the space under which you can use for storage.

Sometimes to save space, the working area is located under the bed located in the second tier – but in this case it is difficult to provide sufficient natural illumination.

It is reasonable to place the table “face” to a window or wall, so that in the field of view of the child there were shelves and shelves with textbooks, and the play zone was left behind. It is also very important for a junior high school student that a table and chair should be suitable for his height, and comfortable. Well, if all the furniture of the working area – table, chair, shelves and racks – will be from one set or solved in one color range.

The night zone by this age can remain the same, but due to the lack of space can undergo significant changes. From the age of six, you can use bunk beds, or those in which the sleeper is on the second tier, and the first is used as a rest area or for storage.

Not only low storage systems are suitable for storing toys – trunks and low bedside tables. The child is sufficiently clever to use the upper shelves, so high-rise narrow cabinets, racks and hinged shelves become relevant.

Very important point: when planning a small children’s room, do not seek to use furniture of standard depth – 45 and 60 cm. For children’s things on the shoulders enough depth of the cabinet 50 cm, and with their location on perpendicular racks – and even less. Under the books and toys, as a rule, a shelf depth of 17-20 cm is sufficient. Reduce the depth of furniture, even if you have to make furniture to order – only at the expense of the optimal depth of cabinets and shelving, you can increase the free space in a small child’s room by a factor of 1.5 or 2.

The color solution, as well as accessories, must be chosen together with the child – let it be his first serious experience in decorating his home.

Small room for a teenager

Of course, I would like to make repairs in the room and forget about it for the next 10 years, but it’s not possible with the children’s room. The child grows, to the fifth class he becomes cramped behind the children’s training table, unless he is transforming, growing with the child. In addition, the room is filled with technology, which was not before – a computer, audio systems. Where do I put all this?

The computer occupies a solid place in the renovated work area. From the room the teenager disappears playing, and its place is occupied by the recreation area. There is also a sofa for guests, and music and video equipment. The bed is either located on the second tier, or it is a folding sofa, which is not very good for the emerging organism.

The small room of a teenager, whom he no longer wants to call a nursery, needs a new layout, fresh styling.

 

Together with the grown up child make a drawing, schedule a new layout, decide which style of design to choose and which furniture requires replacement. Furniture often has to be changed completely – this is due to the fact that it should have “adult” dimensions, and with a new interior design.

Teenagers, as a rule, choose a bold, often outrageous, style of design – loft, high-tech, minimalism. Girls may like Provence or Art Deco. All these styles are realizable in a small room, and in different budget ranges.

The loft in the small nursery lacks space, but you can make a new layout – move the bed to the second level, make a podium under the work area near the window, remove the cabinets and replace them with hidden storage systems, and place the sofa and equipment in the center of the room. Imitation of rough brickwork on the walls and posts will complete the design in the loft style.

Provence in a small room looks great: sunny pastel colors, small and large floral pattern in textiles, light, faded furniture, white walls – such a room will make a happy teenage girl. As well as the interior in the Art Deco style. Despite the “rich” look, such repairs will not cost much – the style will create spectacular wallpaper, vintage accessories, and the predominance of white will fill a small child’s air.

Both Provence and Art Deco are chosen exclusively by girls, and loft, high-tech and minimalism are unisex styles, they appeal to all teens.

Since the possibilities of using space are limited in a small room, the emphasis is on stylish accessories, color solutions, decoration. Do not be afraid to overdo it, thicken the paint – a bit of theatricality, games in the teen’s room will not hurt.

Little child for two owners

Place on two square meters of two children – the task is not easy, but if life dictates such conditions, it is feasible.

For children older than 6 years, actively engage the second tier. If the height of the ceilings (more than 2.5 meters) allows, two beds can be taken out on the mezzanine. Then in the vacant space will be all that is needed – two jobs and a common recreation area.

For babies, two cribs are required, but the play area can be shared.

The layout decides everything

Everyone wants to create ideal conditions for their child to develop, so that he has enough space for games and study, so that friends come to him. But in real life, everyone starts from their capabilities. If the apartment is small, this is no reason for grief. For the child, the main thing is that he has a personal room, and its area is not so important.

Even in a small room with the help of a well-planned layout, you can create a comfortable, stylish, beautiful children’s room that meets all the needs of the child.

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Author: Mikhail Bond

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