Kids' bedroom ideas

A gallery of kids' bedroom ideas by the world's best interior designers

'Children'due south stuff dictates the decorative tone of their rooms,' says House & Garden columnist Rita Konig. 'Information technology is a fine balance, a kid's bedroom. Do you want to go full tilt into the fantasy bedchamber or let it exist a piffling more than fluid? I remember, every bit a kid, a male child I knew had his walls painted with a Star Wars mural, which was amazing. As my ain daughter, Margot, has grown (she is now 4), her room has evolved from a sliver of a room off our sleeping room to what was my husband's study. It withal has the black-and-white floral wallpaper from when, in an even before incarnation, it was my sleeping room, and this has catered for the room'south diverse tenants remarkably well.'

Read on for our favourite kids' bedchamber ideas from the House & Garden annal.

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    Paul Massey

    The Queen'southward Park house where Lonika Chande lives with her husband and son is filled with rich colour and pattern. Papier-mâché messages from Edit58 spell out Sasha's proper noun on 'Alice in Wonderland' wallpaper – a Thirties blueprint by CFA Voysey from Trustworth Studios. A Berber rug and woodwork in Farrow & Brawl's 'Picture Gallery Red' full gloss add warm tones and texture.

  • Romain Ricard

    Maria Speake designed this children's bedroom with bunk beds. The sloping ceiling and wooden panels create an cranium-room feel while accents of blueish run throughout.

  • Romain Ricard

    In the same business firm, Maria implemented a playroom. Bogus turf by Easigrass extends into the garden from a space on the lower ground floor.

  • Michael Sinclair

    Designed by Sarah Delaney, this playroom has a big Moroccan carpeting, which ensures soft landings from the swing and trapeze, with baskets providing colourful storage for toys.

  • Jefferson Smith

    Designer Hugh Leslie has not only created a simply chic scheme of primary colours and graphic prints, but a cosy wrap around headboard ensures at that place'll exist no danger of little ones going crash-land in the dark.

  • Alexander James

    With a Damien Hirst artwork and a vintage chandelier, this little girl's room in Bayswater designed by Fiona Parke of Johnston Parke Interiors is certainly at the fancier end of the spectrum. The bed is upholstered in Abbott & Boyd linen and has two drawers for storing toys.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    In this London business firm designed by Suzy Hoodless, the children'due south rooms were kept graphic and simple; Suzy hates 'cute' decoration that they will chop-chop abound out of - she has used a Børge Mogensen cabinet as a changing table in her ain dwelling. So the merely concession she made to the children'south ages was brilliant main color. In one of the rooms a custom-designed mural has been painted on the wardrobe door.

  • Alicia Taylor

    Floor-to-ceiling windows ensure this child's bedroom in Gytha Nuttall'south south London home is flooded with natural calorie-free. The internal windows also emphasises a feeling of acme, which is much-needed here - the structure of an office space in a erstwhile schoolhouse was adjusted to create this 'flat within a flat'.

    'This apartment is really all about the windows,' designer and possessor Gythahttps://world wide web.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/real-homes/gytha-nuttall-s-london-home explains. 'It's our one architectural feature, so I wanted them to really sing for their supper.'

    Despite her classical aesthetic, Gytha has incorporated more modernistic touches in the flat. She opted confronting cornicing in favour of a cleaner finish and enhanced the New York loft effect past painting all the window frames dark brownish.

  • Michael Sinclair

    This cool-toned colour scheme is the perfect neutral for cool kids who want a stylish bedroom. The genderless mint shade adds to the bright feel of the room, which is flooded with natural light. With sophisticated parquet floors and cosy armchair ways minimal work is needed to turn this into a welcoming invitee bedroom.

  • A stack of pretty mattresses, inspired by The Princess and the Pea fairy tale, doubles upward as a pull-out bed for sleepovers in this young girl's room by K&H Pattern. A screen marks the sectionalisation between the bed and the desk area, which is highlighted past a hand-blocked wallpaper from Hamilton Weston.

  • A panelled recess and two cupboards (one out of shot) frame the bed in this room by Hugh Leslie. Farrow & Ball 'Mizzle' lite green paint picks upwardly on the checked textile of the curtains and bed.

  • This boy's bedroom past K&H Design has lots of fun details – a ceiling mural depicts the shadow of the suspended plane, while its trail is mapped out in ticker tape that runs down the wall. The defunction are in 'Moondog', a Chelsea Textiles embroidered blue linen by Kit Kemp, which features moons and dogs. They are lined with a cherry-red ticking.

  • Murals and scenic wallpapers are a creative way to introduce a fantastical element to a child's room. This wallpaper mural by American artist Rebecca Rebouché depicts an enchanted wood and an underwater tea party, and provides a magical background for the French-style beds, wooden chest of drawers and fluffy rug.

  • An antique wooden bed with a coronet canopy doubles equally a daybed and is surrounded by papier-mâché animal heads from Edit58. The result is a charming room that will be like shooting fish in a barrel to adjust equally the kid grows.

  • Salvesen Graham painted bunk beds in Farrow & Ball'south 'Hague Blue' which brand savvy use of space in this modest room. Under the lower bunk is a deep storage drawer and in that location is a built-in shelf at the head of the bed. Painting the skirting and cornice the same shade as the beds ties the scheme together.

  • The drawers and shelves in this room by Giancarlo Valle provide storage for books, toys and wearing apparel and look bully thanks to the distinctive scallop edging, which is echoed in the handle-less drawers. Information technology is playful rather than childish, making it more likely to stand the test of time.

  • This doll's house-style cupboard and chest of drawers was an antique observe, which has been painted in Fired Earth'south 'Modernist White'. Something along similar lines could be created from an onetime wardrobe with a bit
    of clever carpentry, some inexpensive mouldings and a lick of paint. Designer: Patrick Williams of Berdoulat.

  • This striking mural, based on one in Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle hotel in New York, provides a playful backdrop in this young girls' room. Beata Heuman made clever apply of the space – twin beds, with half-tester canopies, slot neatly into the two alcoves, while the central, built-in breast of drawers extends into the wall to the back of the chimney breast.

  • Paul Massey

    Nicola Harding created a sophisticated children's sleeping accommodation in a 19th century London domicile. The drape cloth is by Tobias & the Angel, which also made the shade seen on the Pooky table lamp. Felix Lighting Specialists made the wall lights. 'Sakura' wallpaper in sky past Galbraith & Paul and a Vanderhurd carpeting provide a foil for a dark pinkish 'St Bernard' armchair from Howe and custom-made headboards covered in a matching textile from Claremont.

  • Dean Hearne

    The Boglione family – who own and run Petersham Nurseries – live in the firm attached to an idyllic Tuscan vineyard. Achilles' bedroom is every part the rustic Italian dream, elegant and homely with antiquarian furniture and a lot of light.

  • Emma Lewis

    In a London house designed past Amanda Baring, curtains made from 'Les Chiens' cotton fiber from Clarence Business firm add together a playful note to a child's bedroom which features antique furniture and soft colours.

  • Rachel Whiting

    Curtains in Nina Campbell's 'Beau Rivage' co-ordinate with similar shades of blueish in Christian Lacroix'due south striped 'Beach Club' wallpaper in Pandora Sykes's daughter's room.

  • Michael Sinclair

    Prints on the wall in this bedroom at Guy Tobin's London house include a true cat by the Spanish artist Sam3, a cross-section of a tree torso made up of tiny illustrations of animals, and a polar bear past Swedish artist Einar Hansen. The small chair is a Twenties plywood slice by E Gomme. Farrow & Ball's 'Parma Gray' provides a brilliant backdrop to the prints (£43.50 for 2.5 litres of estate emulsion).

  • Elsa Young

    In this pocket-sized Mayfair flat, infinite has been maximised with iii beds for children in i room. With its built-in bunks, the room feels similar a sailing boat cabin. Upholstered headboards and a Georgian mahogany breast add homely touches.

  • Paul Massey

    Originally Rita Konig's room before the expansion of her London apartment, this unmarried spare bedroom would make a wonderful kid'due south room thanks to its unique and quirky design. The defunction are in 'Broadcloth' felt from Hainsworth and the walls are lined in Tyler Hall's 'First Bloom' wallpaper from Tissus d'Hélène, with a Guatemalan tapestry that Phil brought back from his travels.

  • Lucas Allen

    Designer Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay, the owner of this Victorian land firm in Shropshire, has enhanced the interiors of this m belongings with her signature mid-century aesthetic without compromising original features. The daughter's room features striking striped wallpaper by The Art of Wallpaper and contains lots of bright, ambivalent patterns. This fun scheme makes for a lively space.

  • Tim Beddow

    Later on visiting her friend Kathryn Ireland in France'southward Tarn region, Anne Halsey bought a French farmhouse retreat at that place and enlisted the help of the decorator to create a relaxed infinite perfect for entertaining. This twin bedroom is decorated with a pastel pink colour palette and features white gauzy canopies, which are often adored by children (specially those who like princesses). The subtle scheme is platonic for young and teenage girls alike as this mode is both fun and 'grown-upwardly'.

  • Line T Klein

    The owners of this Somerset country house had non anticipated taking on such a large projection, only their conscientious renovation enhanced by modern decorative touches has resulted in a smart, yet comfortable, forever domicile. This kid's bedroom has floral wallpaper, a pastel palette and a uncomplicated white bed frame, allowing mixed patterns to piece of work well together. The grey and cream rug is 'Cora' from The Carpeting Visitor. The scheme is elegant yet far from dull.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    The son's bedchamber in a Chelsea flat designed by Sophie Ashby has a cloud mural by Surface View - a copy of Constable's Report of Cirrus Clouds. Velvet cushions and a spray-lacquered Danish desk from Ebay add together to the blueish theme, while the Zak + Fox textile on the headboard provides a stiff contrast. Animal motifs and a small workspace make this a perfect kid'due south bedroom.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    In the daughter's bedroom of a west London firm, the ceiling has been painted to look like a circus tent, using Farrow & Ball's 'Rectory Red' and Paint and Paper Library'south 'Slate I'. The addition of a large basement extension to the house has freed up infinite on the upper floors for bright and capacious rooms, and a more fluid layout, ideal for family unit living.

  • Alexander James

    Jamb director Henry Bickerton has revived a Victorian boondocks business firm once strewn with pizza boxes with carefully chosen elements of English language country-firm style. In Henry's son Archie's bedroom, the striped wallpaper is from William Yeoward, adding a vivid element of fun without compromising on the smart artful of the house.

  • Paul Massey

    Taking on the conversion of a disused chapel in Somerset, artist Jonathan Delafield Cook, illustrator Laura Stoddart and their two children (xi and 13 years old) accept made the smooth transition from incomers to long-term residents. In this bedroom a simple storage wall has been filled with coloured boxes that match the rainbow pom poms at the window. A sweet mid-century desk for home work sits in forepart of the window.

  • Elsa Young

    Resisting the idea of moving or expanding into the basement, the owners of this London business firm from the 1850s gave architect Maria Speake of Retrouvius the get-alee to make structural changes to requite their family and business the space needed. This children's bedrooms is flooded with light from both the window and skylight, with swell underbed storage to make the most of the bad-mannered attic space.

  • David Oliver

    In this country house in Norfolk with interiors designed by Veere Grenney, the Tudor wing is a glorious honeycomb of rooms for the youngest members of the family unit, where there are enough small beds for the about riotous of sleepovers. Four-poster beds, working fireplaces and generous armchairs make them gloriously comfy, but the calorie-free colour palette, the brightly coloured modernistic rugs and the carefully chosen pictures and objects dispel any notion of stuffiness. Yellow is a groovy colour option for childrens rooms: it's bright, playful and most importantly gender neutral.

  • Yellow striped walls add playful color to a brown furnished twin bedroom perfect for children in a graceful, littoral state house. The twin beds accept block-printed quilts from Republic of india.

  • Paul Massey

    There are four beds tucked into the eaves of this large dormitory-style children's sleeping accommodation at Kate Earle's chalet in the French Alps. Each bed has a curtain and a congenital-in chest and then that the children take their own space and tin store personal things. A skylight floods the attic room with natural light and bright colours throughout add continuity.

  • Simon Brown

    This chamber belongs to Vanessa and James Macdonald'southward son, Rupert, at their family home in the rolling hills of Oxfordshire. The red gingham of the headboard and armchair compliments the patterned red and white curtains. Soft neutral colours in the carpet and on the walls allows the blood-red to pleasantly popular rather than overwhelm the room.

  • Lettering on the wall and a stellar low-cal fixture requite a more than youthful feel to this fashionable bedroom in designer Sarah Stewart-Smith's Herefordshire family home. The small space is made to feel bigger with a curtain separating the cosy bed area from a seating surface area with a desk-bound, with the grey colour scheme continued throughout.

  • Paul Massey

    The attic of Kate Earl's charming 1920s chalet in the French Alps is the children'southward domain, and every fleck as thought through and sophisticated as the rest of the house, still fun. Up there is this tiny 2d sleeping accommodation, with 1 bed ingeniously built in under another, in an L-shape configuration under painted-pine ceilings.

  • Rachel Whiting

    Vincent Frey is the grandson of the eponymous Pierre Frey founder (and the current deputy manager of the French fabric and furnishing company). Vincent and his wife Bianca hired builder Marika Dru, an old school friend of Vincent's, to work on their Parisian flat, although decided to decorate information technology - including son Vasco's room - themselves. We love the mix of a thousand painting with a quirky hanging handbasket.

  • Tim Beddow

    David and Lizzie Currie discovered Lucy Ford, a decorator after their ain hearts, who transformed their banal westward London firm into a fashionable abode to suit their family lifestyle. The cool kids' sleeping accommodation features bespoke children's beds and storage units past Alistair Robinson of FT2 Design, brought from the Currie'southward previous minimalist and architect-designed house.

  • Measuring just 90 square metres, this home to a family of v in Chelsea, London, makes use of every inch of infinite. Designed by Eve Mercier, the pocket-sized kids' bedchamber features ii wide, wall-mounted benches (underneath the loft bed) that are easily transformed into beds (bed-linen is curtained below), while a third, drawer bed slides out when needed. "We wanted a versatile space that could easily be converted into a written report if necessary," explains Eve. A circular, frosted window overlooks the bath.

  • Johannes Mueller

    Oversize letters are scattered throughout interior designer Monica Damonte's home near Genoa, Italy. Each one represents a unlike family unit fellow member'southward initial. The Mint List is a expert source for vintage messages, with prices around £100 each.

  • Jefferson Smith

    In Steffanie Dark-brown's 10-year-old daughter's bedroom, interior decorator Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay has subdivided the walls for a sock-information technology-to-me bear upon, introducing a psychedelic cloudscape ('Clouds Sonic' by Aimée Wilder) to a higher place the picture show track and a restrained print beneath ('Tile' by Cole & Son). 'She wanted a funky bedroom,' says Henri. 'I tried to give her what she was looking for, without doing something that would later bulldoze y'all bonkers.'

    Taken from the Dec 2013 issue of House & Garden. Boosted text: Lisa Freedman and Emily Tobin. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Simon Brown

    If you're lucky enough to have a spare bedroom or un-tapped cranium space, plough it into a playroom. Anne-Marie Midy and Jorge Almada - French and Mexican respectively - have done this in their Brussels family unit home, which they share with their two sons, Antoine and Olivier. The couple design modernistic furniture and accessories that are made using traditional techniques by craftsman in Mexico for sale through their design company Casamidy. We love how the couple isn't afraid to use a magenta hue on the shelves in a space designed for boys.

  • Simon Brown

    The design of this boys' room was dictated by the original chimneypiece in their Brussels dwelling. The leather headboards are designed past their male parent Jorge, who runs design company Casamidy with his wife Anne-Marie Midy.

  • Emma Lewis

    The refurbishment of this key London townhouse was a example of sisters doing it for themselves; interior designer Amanda Baring's sister is the owner. A painting of a political party dress hangs in a frame while curtains made from 'Les Chiens' cotton from Clarence House add a playful note to the bedroom, which mixes an array of print and pattern.

    Taken from the April 2013 event of House & Garden. Additional text: Caroline Clifton-Mogg. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Simon Upton

    The conversion of this Victorian terrace in west London was a collaborative effort betwixt Thomas Croft Architects, John Cullen Lighting and designer Sarah Delaney. The cursory for the kids' rooms at the summit of the business firm was to continue them lite hearted and comfy. Job done nosotros'd say.

    Taken from the July 2012 issue of Firm & Garden. Additional text: Fiona MacLeod. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Jake Curtis

    Have a small space? This kids' room designed by Eve Mercier packs a lot of punch. Housed in a petite family home (a former creative person'due south studio in Chelsea), this multi-purpose room includes a loft bed, two wall-mounted benches that transform into beds (bed-linen is concealed below), and a third, drawer bed (pictured here) which slides out when needed.

    Taken from the Apr 2012 effect of House & Garden. Boosted text: Teresa Levonian Cole. Locations editor: Lavinia Bolton.

  • Paul Massey

    Interior designer Samantha Todhunter created this daughter's room in a domicile in south London by combining a stunning bespoke bed, made like an extended button-dorsum sofa, with a fabulous feature blind, prints and a zebra print rug. I word springs to mind: fun.

    Taken from the October 2013 issue of House & Garden. Boosted text: Dinah Hall. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Rachel Whiting

    When it came to designing this Chelsea home, Stephen Eicker most enjoyed working on this chamber, belonging to the owner'southward two sons, aged three and six. His starting point was the eldest'south obsession with trains, and this led him to the wallpaper past The New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg, which he teamed with a turquoise carpet with crimson-and-white fabrics. Accessorised with vintage toy trains, the room is original and playful without beingness overdone or saccharine.

  • January Baldwin

    In the children's room of Nori Starck's Venetian apartment, alpine, padded headboards emphasise the height of the ceiling with its painted beams.

    Taken from the January 2009 issue of House & Garden. Boosted text: Olinda Adeane.

  • Simon Upton

    The children'due south bedrooms in Keith McNally'due south Notting Hill domicile permit for storage and organisation - too every bit charming touches - like this Toadstool lamp, £55 at White Rabbit England. The Due east Coast tongue-and-groove panelling and plaster walls aren't restricted to the kids' spaces, they're a theme throughout all of the property.

  • Simon Dark-brown

    Jorge Almada and Anne-Marie Midy, the husband-wife duo behind blueprint visitor Casamidy, aren't afraid to mix things up in their home. The boys' bedroom features a mix of leather headboards, maps, vintage airplanes and Marimekko Unikko print cushions.

  • Elsa Young

    The twin beds in i of the children'southward rooms of Harriet Logan and Mark Faulkner'south dwelling house are the 'Mini', by Zanotta. Interior designer Andrew Fossey and Chris Dyson Architects were behind the renovation of the Georgian property in Spitalfields in London's East End. Harriet and Mark are the co-founders of Woop Studios, which designs and sells express-edition prints via an online gallery.

    Taken from the Oct 2011 outcome of Business firm & Garden. Additional text: Nicole Swengley.

  • Rachel Whiting

    This family home in Notting Hill was the work of Maria Speake, who along with husband Adam owns reclamation company Retrouvius. The children's chamber is decorated in Maria's playful way, with bright greenish carpets, bold patterns and fun birch-ply shelving. The curtain material is by Svenskt Tenn.

  • Lucas Allen

    This sweet, galleried play expanse designed by Trine Miller, has the dual function of creating an audacious play space, while as well keeping toys contained and out of view. 'The idea was that the gallery was very much their individual space,' says Trine, 'rather like a tree business firm.' Below, a modest bathroom has been installed.

    Taken from the July 2009 issue of Business firm & Garden. Additional text: Trine Miller.

  • Lucas Allen

    In ane of the children'southward rooms of this home designed by David Bentheim, the bed is set into an alcove, which is studded with LED lights to resemble stars.

    Taken from the February 2009 issue of House & Garden. Additional text: Liz Elliot.

  • Simon Brown

    While information technology's wonderful to become buck wild with the ornament of a child's room, sometimes a subtle approach, similar that taken in this mannerly nursery past Emma Burns of Colefax & Fowler, tin save time and money - specially if the baby is probable to graduate to a bigger room later on.

    Past opting for classic furniture and white walls as a base, this space and its contents will easily morph in to a spare sleeping accommodation with a change of bed. The vintage textile used for the blind is from The Lacquer Breast in Kensington.

    Taken from the April 2014 outcome of Business firm & Garden

  • Richard Powers

    'The primal with toys is to design somewhere for them to go,' says interior designer Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock. The green ottoman at the pes of the bed in this room doubles as fancy dress storage and a vault for gymnastics.

    Taken from the March 2014 issue of House & Garden.

  • Paul Massey

    Chintz and gingham brand up this charming room created by interior designer Edward Bulmer for his daughter, which has a window seat for reading and a miniature sofa.

    From the Nov 2008 Green past Pattern supplement

  • Maria Speake of Retrouvius relaid the 'slightly unimaginative' oak flooring of this dwelling house to transform the basement into a cheerful playroom for the kids. The mix of mid-century influences with bright colour is proof that grown-up tastes can withal be child friendly.

    Taken from the November 2010 issue of Business firm & Garden.

  • Inspired by the Matisse exhibition at the Tate Modern,House & Garden'south ornament editor Gabby Deeming created bespoke wall coverings that pay homage to the joie de vivre of the artist's paper-cuts with the help of the design team at de Gournay. Matisse himself hung many of the works on the walls of his own Paris flat. Positioning each foliage individually allows you to create a wall blueprint that complements your piece of furniture.

  • Lucas Allen

    A sweet play area has been created in the home of Trine Miller by adding a mini gallery on summit of a bath. The wallpaper is from Jane Churchill.

    From the July 2009 issue of House & Garden

  • Alexander James

    Color and pattern both enliven and define this family home. The graphic crimson and white Vivienne Westwood wallpaper[/link] in the nursery is far more diverting than whatever mobile. 'Small children seem absolutely riveted by information technology,' says the home's owner, interior designer Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock.

    Taken from the November 2012 result of Firm & Garden. Additional text: Lisa Freedman.

  • Sarah Hogan

    Gabby Deeming has created the atmosphere of a New England-style vacation habitation with painted wood furniture and faded stripes. The walls are in 'Faded Damask' by Mulberry Home, while the bespoke wooden headboard can be made to order by Fafio, and is painted (along with all the rest of the woods work) in 'Body of water Cliff' eggshell from Sanderson. The bedding is from Romo, and the driftwood side table is Oka.

    Taken from the April 2014 issue of House & Garden.

  • If there are two failsafe options for decorating a kid'due south room, it's vivid color and fun furnishings. For the erstwhile, Farrow & Ball's modern emulsion is a hardwearing, eco-friendly option which is safe for walls and toys. For the latter, a (firmly-secured) hanging chair is the pinnacle - pardon the pun - of childhood chic. This i is the 'Marrakech Swing' chair, £200 at Urban Outfitters.

    Wall: 'Stiffkey Blue', 'Lulworth Blue', 'Red World' and 'Mouse's Back', £39.50 for 2.5L water-based modern emulsion. Ceiling: 'Wimborne White', £36 for 2.5L estate emulsion. Cupboard: 'Wimborne White', £20 for 750ml estate eggshell. Woodwork: 'Wimborne White', £xx for 750ml estate eggshell. Flooring: 'Pavillion Grey', £22 for 750ml floor paint. All at Farrow & Brawl.

  • James Merrell

    Behind the bed in this circus inspired room by William Yeoward, an Eighteenth-century hand-painted screen from Hollyhock sweetly compliments the bespoke tented cupboard from Clock House Article of furniture. The William Yeoward grey fruitwood, 'Aberfoyle', breast of drawers, 'Bellingham' demote, and grey mahogany bed are available at Designers Guild.

  • Simon Brown

    'We loved the absurd, pared-downward style of a business firm belonging to a Swedish art collector, which we had seen in a magazine,' says the owners of this west-London terrace home. Enter designer Hugh Leslie. The tiptop floor of this westward-London is devoted to the children, with the son'southward room in off-white and the daughter'due south in soft light-green, plus a bathroom on the half-landing. Hugh'due south talent for joinery is axiomatic here too: tongue-and-groove recesses frame the children'south beds, with capacious cupboard space on either side.

  • Simon Upton

    Four-affiche beds with pale pinkish bedding and 'Mistletoe' muslin create the perfect country bedroom. Being well-versed in decorating state homes, Fiona Shelburne knew she wanted to plough this Hampshire firm into a family unit-orientated home. She used an English language country-firm manner with a contemporary twist to create a cosy family unit space. The twin iv-poster beds follow this traditional style while adding height to the room. The 'Mistletoe' muslin from Simon Playle adds low-cal and playfulness to the space; the defunction are in 'Delphos Aqua' from Jane Churchill.

  • Paul Massey

    A pink floral bedchamber makes an elegant scheme in this neoclassical pavilion Bradwell Order. Information technology is aptly named the 'Pink Room'. A assuming Bernard Thorp 'Brimble' fabric has been used on the walls, bed and blind, calculation character and playfulness. The pall over the bed adds pinnacle, and gives the room a cosy den-like feel. Designed as a invitee room, we call back the ideas could easily exist transferred to a child's chamber.

  • Paul Massey

    In this fashionable children's bedroom designed by Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay, a fixed and shaped box pelmet with curtains in a pale blue fabric is a smart option as information technology will not exist rapidly outgrown when the children become teenagers. The overall effect is mod and elegant.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    The children's bedchamber at the Playa Grande Beach Club is furnished with twin canopy beds dressed in a playful mix of pretty, sophisticated fabrics. The bed canopies are an easy bit of decorative DIY to recreate at home - simply wire a length of fabric to the ceiling of the room. Vintage leather trunks at the foot of the bed are the perfect place for chucking toys at the end of the day.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    In this boys sleeping room the flooring has get a design feature. Blocks of wood were stained in a variety of colours before being laid in a parquet mode. The issue is rustic yet aesthetic, modern merely not at all clinical. The union jack pillow on the bed is a witty reference to the owners' time spent in the Uk.

  • Lucas Allen

    Cameron Short and his family alive in a restored Georgian firm in Dorset. The end the bed in his children's room is total of teddies and toys. Pretty antique dresses hung upwardly on a line are a witty culling to bunting.

  • Simon Brown

    This children'due south sleeping accommodation in a Sussex newbuild belonging to architect Ptolemy Dean is nestled towards the peak of the business firm. The cosy sloping walls are covered in painted wood panelling and decorated with a few selection framed prints. The look is finished with witty touches - a dart board and flags from around the earth hung like bunting.

  • Andreas Von Einsiedel

    This bedroom in the Florescu's firm belongs to Lizzie and Ion's son Leopold. Pattern - and therefore fun - is injected through the blind, fabricated of Jane Churchill's 'Deverell Stripe'. This room is full of personal touches, for instance, the model of a Cadogan Square house was made by Leopold himself.

  • Greg Funnell

    In a room belonging to one of her sons, food writer Mimi Thorisson has chosen vintage furniture made of dark wood. Her son has put his own stamp on the room past proudly displaying his collection of toys and curiosities.

  • James McDonald

    The awning in this daughter's bedroom, designed by Studio Alidad, was intended to make it experience more 'feminine and special'. The bespoke floral design on the headboard and silk fringe is repeated on the fabric wallcovering, while the ceiling and corona are hand-painted.

  • Brett Charles

    This kid's room past member of The Listing Room to Blossom features subtle dusty regal and golden accents against a neutral colour palette (run across our white room ideas and how to employ white pigment). This design shows how to create a child'south room that is both magical and quite 'grown-up', which ways there will be no demand for a consummate redesign inside a couple of years.

  • Pine bunk beds at Soho Farmhouse with plenty of cushions make for a cosy and relaxed bedroom infinite. Bedding is neutral to preclude the space from becoming a gaudy motel. This is a perfect ornamentation scheme for a kid'south room at a vacation home.

  • Simon Upton

    In this boys' bedroom, upholstered headboards add cosiness to the infinite.

    Anne-Marie Midy inherited this house in the south of France and has since lovingly restored information technology to refresh the interiors without losing the amuse of the space. Decoratively, her bear upon was light.

    As much as possible, owner Anne-Marie tried to friction match the wall colours to those that her grandmother had used, keeping the bedrooms the aforementioned subtle colours, simply adding 'ribbons' of colour to outline the architecture and 'clothes the room'.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    This playroom has a swing, a slide and a lime-wood treehouse bed by François Lamazerolles, available from The Conran Shop. Indoor treehouses are perfect for city homes without outdoor spaces.

    This space tin can exist used as a kids' play area or as a bedroom. Its design, which includes a map rug and a striped characteristic wall, is both playful and stylish, making the room even more versatile.

    'The basement is the real triumph of the firm - information technology doesn't feel subterranean,' says Claire Spencer-Churchill, who shares the house with her married man Dominic and their two children Martha, 4, and Ivor, 2.

    Originally, Claire intended to practice the decoration of the house herself. 'Rather naively, I idea it would exist enjoyable. To begin, I went to a Graham & Green warehouse auction somewhere on the A40. Information technology was a complete bun fight and I felt totally overwhelmed. I came back with one armchair that now lives in the playroom and said to Dom, "We are going to need help."'

    The addition of a large basement extension to this Edwardian firm with bright, modern interiors freed up space on the upper floors for bright and capacious rooms, and created a more fluid layout platonic for family living.

  • Alexander James

    In this kids' bedroom, the white walls, ceiling, carpet and bedding are brought to life with patterned blinds, headboards and a colourful rug. All of the patterns are dissimilar, introducing an chemical element of fun to the minimal room. It is the perfect design for a children's bedroom in a vacation home.

    The owners of this newbuild Bahamas embankment house turned to trusted interior designer John McCall to provide their firm with a British sensibility, applied furnishings and interiors that are not 'too beachy'.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    This sweet cranium sleeping accommodation, which belongs to designer and House & Garden contributor Ben Pentreath, can be found at the top of his gently restored Georgian country house. The cosiness of this room makes it a lovely kids' sleeping accommodation. The twin beds sit down nicely in the modest space and the cream panelling brings light to the room.

  • Paul Massey

    A dresser with mismatched drawers provides a fun storage solution in this boy's chamber, where grey walls provide a neutral backdrop for unusual pattern details. A 'Love' rug by Paul Smith, hanging model airplane and car impress on the wall too add involvement.

    Relocating to Oxford later xv years in Nihon and Hong Kong, the owners of this mod Victorian house put together a team of experts to create a mostly open-plan layout full of intriguing design details to capture the imagination.

  • Paul Massey

    Relocating to Oxford afterward fifteen years in Japan and Hong Kong, the owners of this Victorian house put together a team of experts to create a mostly open-program layout, full of intriguing design details. The spare children's room on the third floor has specially made built-in bunks.

  • Michael Sinclair

    With a feature respect for the material of this eighteenth-century business firm in Bath, designer Patrick Williams has advisedly transformed it into a welcoming home and B&B. A neutrally decorated playroom is filled with traditional toys, keeping with the immaculate restoration of this property without compromising on fun.

  • Elsa Young

    The twin kids' bedroom in this architect'due south minimal family abode is decorated in well-baked white with fun splashes of bright color. Elegant cushions make for a cosy corner on the right, while the kid's workspace features a rustic wooden stool.

    Architect Francesca Oggioni had to set bated her rationalist principles when she was planning a new layout for her listed house in westward London, so it would piece of work every bit a family home, workspace and properties for an extensive art drove. What do you practise if your aesthetic is Italian modernist merely you have only purchased a half dozen-floor Class II-listed Victorian town house in west London? This was the dilemma that faced Italian builder and interior designer Francesca Oggioni six years ago when she purchased her home with her Belgian married man, a hedge-fund manager, photographer and art collector.

  • Paul Massey

    This child'south room features a Hans J Wegner bed, which sets the tone for Danish simplicity in this white space. Simple, modern furniture complements the brilliant and airy experience of the scheme, while mustard curtains and a framed print on the wall add together colour and involvement.

    The design of this room is in keeping with the remainder of the house, in which all rooms are furnished with Scandinavian and mid-century pieces. Heidi and Steve were collecting these before they met. Pieces sourced from dealers and furniture fairs - and even institute in skips - include archetype Knoll, Eames, Ercol and Hans Wegner furniture with some contemporary pieces past Hay and Donna Wilson thrown in for adept mensurate. Artwork, including vintage Carry On posters, a Lucienne Solar day silk mosaic and work by Pink Floyd designer Storm Thorgerson, hangs on the walls.

    Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons own this modern, colourful Thirties house in rural Hertfordshire. Built in 1936 by the renowned public sector architect Mary Medd, Sewell's Orchard was apparently unpopular with the locals at the time, who likened its monopitch roof and pared-dorsum design to that of a canning factory. This is not a view shared past Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons, however, who have lived in and loved the daring modernist property for the past few years.

  • Paul Massey

    Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons own this mid-century business firm, built in 1936 by the renowned public sector builder Mary Medd. Vintage Star Wars figures are displayed in one of the boys' bedrooms, with the white backdrop making the colours of the furniture and accessories fifty-fifty more striking.

  • Elsa Young

    In this converted Cotswolds barn, interior designer Pippa Paton has combined modern design with natural materials to create a minimalist haven that maintains its rural identity. This bedroom, which is flooded with calorie-free at the top of the barn, is subtly decorated with children in listen. Evidently white walls are accented with brightly coloured accessories and soft, comfortable depression seating.

  • Simon Brown

    A twin cranium bedroom has cosy bedding in Emma Burns' one-time stables that she has converted into a weekend retreat. She has put into practice the principles that now guide her professional piece of work as a designer at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler.

  • Richard Powers

    Four bunk beds line a wall of the kids' room in this stone house in Luberon. The paired dorsum design of the business firm is made playful hither with polka-dot walls (and matching bed linen), colourful soft toys and a tiger carpeting.