The layout of the nursery should take into account the interests and needs of children, which, of course, will change as they grow older. In the room for kids there should be enough space for safe outdoor games, and for a schoolchild or teenager you need to organize a full-fledged and comfortable study place.
Dividing the nursery into zones
If you arrange different zones in your personal room, it will be easier for your child to develop the habit of order, when it is clear where and what should be. It is especially important to allocate a work area for the student, because this creates comfortable conditions not only for doing homework, but also helps to get used to the daily routine.
Sleeping area
When arranging a recreation area, the age of the child is of great importance. It is not recommended to purchase a bed for children to grow into. Fashion changes, new materials appear, and the child will get tired of sleeping on the same bed all the time.
For kids, play models are purchased that are decorated in the form of cars or elegant cribs with a canopy. It is recommended to arrange the sleeping area in a well-lit place (near the window), but away from radiators. It is dangerous if there are sockets or live electrical appliances (electric heaters) near the bed. It is believed that placing a bed opposite the door (or next to it) is prohibited. However, it is advisable that the child sees those entering the room.
For schoolchildren, you can install multifunctional beds (sofa bed, loft bed). Since the child has to pay more attention to his studies, a work area is set up near the window opening, and the bed is moved deeper into the room. In compact rooms it is advisable to install functional transformable furniture. Such products allow you to save space by combining several zones in a small space. It is better to place the bed-table near a window so that the work surface is well lit during the day.
Work corner
The peculiarities of planning a room for a teenage student are that a significant part of the time is allocated for completing homework. And the work area must be arranged in such a way that children are not distracted from their studies. With the correct layout, the workplace is positioned “facing” a wall or window, so that the playground or sports area remains behind the back. Shelves with books near the table and shelves with notebooks above the table will help develop attentiveness and concentration. The best option is if the table is placed by the window (in front of the window opening) or on the side, but the light should fall on the surface from the left.
An interesting idea is to highlight the work area using a podium. Moreover, in rooms with high ceilings, you can build a bed into the structure, which can be easily taken out while sleeping. In low rooms, the podium is used for storing things - it is enough to equip several drawers. When arranging a work area, it is important to ensure safety, so special fences or railings are attached to the free side of the podium.
When planning a children's room in a Khrushchev-era building, it is advisable to combine the workplace with the bedrooms by installing a transformable bed or a loft bed. Sometimes such designs are bought for a nursery for two children. You can place furniture along one wall or adjacent ones. The choice of the appropriate option is determined by the size and shape of the room. When arranging a work area on the first tier of a loft bed, additional lighting must be installed.
Game Zone
This area is of great importance when arranging a room where small children live. You can highlight the area with a bright carpet or low drawers for storing toys. When designing a play area, it is important to delimit the area for active games and for creative activities (a small round or square table and chair). It is advisable to place small open shelves with bright boxes near the walls. It will be easy and interesting for children to take out elegant boxes and put toys and art kits there.
Children like to separate the play area from the room with small screens. Such structures are made of lightweight panels, and they can serve as a house or hut.
As the child gets older, the play area loses importance. Children develop new interests and hobbies. For active children, it is necessary to allocate a place for arranging a sports corner:
- standard set includes wall bars, rings, rope. For a nursery in Khrushchev, an L-shaped complex that is fixed to the wall is suitable. Such structures do not take up much space and are most often mounted in the corners of the room. Such a corner does not occupy an area of more than one square meter;
- It is recommended to install a U-shaped sports structure in a children's room for two or three children. Such complexes take up a little more space, but their advantages are increased functionality and the ability for all children to play sports at the same time.
When installing sports equipment, it is important to ensure that the structure does not interfere with the free movement of other residents or the placement of other furniture in the room.
Disadvantages of large cottages
Oddly enough, the fashion for large houses has not yet passed and one can often see sad pictures of concrete expressionism outside the city.
History is silent about why the little boy is called “Uncle Fedor,” and why he was forced to form a gang without documents and hide from his relatives for a long time. Thanks to a vigilant employee of the rural post office, the fugitive was discovered and defeated by the facts.
Let's consider the most popular reasons not to build a large cottage:
Unfinished. As a rule, large cottages take a long time to build, if not frankly, years. You may end up in construction bondage that will last forever. For this money, you can build a small, comfortable house and live now.
Difficulty selling. The real estate market is overflowing with offers of large and expensive cottages, which are very difficult to sell. And if you talk to an experienced realtor, he will tell you that the cost of such buildings often reaches cost, and in fact, the owners, at best, recoup the costs of building materials.
Inconvenience of movement. Moving around a huge house can quickly become tiring, especially for older people.
Storage systems
When arranging storage systems in a small children's room, you should not use large bulky cabinets. Low shelving or chests of drawers are quite suitable:
- Shallow cabinets (up to 50 cm) are installed for storing clothes. For a children's room of 10 sq.m, you can choose models with perpendicular stands and then narrow furniture will fit perfectly into a small room;
- For storing books and toys, shelving or open cabinets with shelves 15-20 cm deep are quite suitable.
For small rooms, it is better to order individual furniture models, since the modest depth of cabinets or shelving will significantly increase the free space in the nursery. An excellent option is low corner structures that use the “dead” corner area and minimally reduce the usable area of the nursery.
You can now install a wardrobe in the student’s room. If the room has an elongated shape, then it is advisable to install the structure over the entire width of the narrow wall. In this case, you will be able to visually slightly adjust the length of the room. If the door panels are decorated to match the color of the walls, the storage system will become visually invisible.
An excellent way to arrange hidden storage systems is to install podiums. Options for the location of structures and their sizes can be individual. The parameters of the podiums are determined by the size and shape of the room, the number of children and their preferences. Most often, the podium is mounted near a window. At the same time, a work corner or play area or bedroom is set up on the site.
Sleeping location
High-quality sleep of sufficient duration and depth is the key to the successful development and productive activity of every person, and especially a child. To place the bed, it is better to choose an isolated area that can be placed on a podium, behind a folding screen or curtain made of thick textiles.
The free space under the podium can be used to store personal belongings, a change of bed linen, and pillows. For a small children's bedroom, it is better to use furniture with a transformation function, for example, a wardrobe bed.
Zoning techniques
When arranging a nursery, it is important to remember that sometimes it is difficult for children to concentrate on one activity, so the main task of planning: when zoning a room, children should have objects in their field of vision that are directly related to one area of activity (only study/play, sport).
The most common principle of furniture arrangement is around the perimeter of the room. If children of different sexes of about the same age live in a children's room, then it is recommended to visually divide the room into parts. You can highlight the needs and wishes of children with color and furniture:
- For the girl's territory, warm colors in the interior are selected (peach, light green, sand, soft lilac). Near the bed you can install a small soft chair, a neat bedside table or chest of drawers;
- cooler shades (blue, grayish) will highlight the boyish half. For a boy, you can choose a bean bag chair and attach a sports wall in the corner.
If the children have a big age difference, then when planning a children's room for two it is already necessary to take into account the differences in the daily routine. It is better for the student to allocate a section of the room located near the window in order to organize a full-fledged workplace. Tall narrow bookshelves installed next to the table or hanging shelves above the tabletop will help save room space. The area for small children can be highlighted with low chests of drawers for toys.
The layout of a children's room with a balcony allows the balcony to be used for different purposes for children and teenagers. Most often, play or sports areas and a study corner are designed. A mandatory requirement is that the balcony must be safe and insulated.
How to effectively arrange furniture?
There is no optimal option for arranging furniture, however, given the small area, many designers advise placing pieces of furniture as close to the walls as possible.
Provide a combination of open and closed storage shelves.
Even if your baby is still very small, be sure to organize a small workspace. At the table he will be able to perform various creative tasks: draw, sculpt from plasticine, assemble a mosaic, etc. You can make such a table with your own hands using our master class.
If the nursery has an unusual shape, try to use the space taking into account the existing geometry. A specialist in the manufacture of custom furniture or an interior designer can help with proper planning.
A bed combined with a wardrobe combines two functional areas at once, allowing you to free up usable space.
Corner option for placing beds in a small room. This layout saves space in the common nursery.
Layout recommendations
Sometimes, when arranging a children's room, parents use old furniture - a bulky chest of drawers from the living room or a large old bookcase, an impressively sized chair. And they forget that all these items take up very valuable space that the child needs for free movement. At each stage of a child’s life, different options for planning a nursery are used, which take into account a certain minimum set of furniture, correctly located in the room.
conclusions
By and large, the convenience of living in a house is influenced not by the number of squares, but by the proper distribution and planning of this space. You can make a house of 200 square meters with a well-thought-out and flexible heating system, you can intelligently and super-conveniently distribute a space of 20 square meters (of which there are many examples). There are no universal solutions, so the choice is yours. Just in case, let me remind you that my wife and I settled on a house of 40 square meters, and we do not regret our decision at all.
But how can you wisely manage your twenty, forty or two hundred squares? Are there any rules, patterns, tricks? Let's talk about this.
Baby room
There should be no unnecessary furniture in rooms for small children. The room itself must be planned in such a way that during games or during active movements there are no serious obstacles that could cause you to trip over or tip over.
Young children need a lot of time to sleep properly at night and during the day. Since light is very important for babies, it is better to place the sleeping place near the window, but not close to the radiator. It is also not recommended to place the bed on the window-door line to avoid drafts when ventilating the room. The rest of the furniture can be arranged in a free order - at the discretion of the parents. Most often, a comfortable chair/small sofas are placed in the corners, and chests of drawers for things and toys are placed near the walls.
Replacing bookshelves
If you don't have enough space for a proper bookshelf, try installing floating shelves. They might not be able to hold the last few Harry Potter books, but anything under 300 pages should fit. It's also a great way to create a functional and stylish wall in a small space.
Zoning a preschooler's room
The child grows up and the sleeping area becomes a rest area only at night, so the bed can be placed further away from the window. Depending on the number of children and the shape of the room, you can choose different beds and arrange them in several ways:
- A bunk bed will fit perfectly into a children's room with two same-sex children. Usually the older child sleeps on the upper bed, but this issue is decided individually;
- If a boy and a girl live in a room, then it is preferable to organize separate sleeping places. In a narrow, elongated room, beds can be placed against one wall, and in a square-shaped room, they will fit perfectly near adjacent walls;
- sometimes the sleeping places are placed nearby. In this case, small bedside tables placed between the beds will help visually zone the children's sleeping places.
The child's play area and work area are moved closer to the window opening. Kids are becoming more diligent and spend more and more time assembling construction sets, putting together puzzles or coloring magazines, so good natural lighting is required so that they have to strain their eyes less. The child does not yet need a full-fledged desk, but it is advisable to choose comfortable furniture for classes. A small bookcase or wall shelves for books will take up little space in the room. This additional furniture is installed in the work area to make it faster and more convenient for the child to get books.
More space is already needed to store things. For compact rooms, it is better to select modular furniture systems, hidden drawers that are built into the bed or into wall openings. In a room with two children, it is better to put two compact wardrobes than one bulky one.
Choice of colors and materials
The most suitable colors for decorating a nursery are soft pastel colors: light shades of yellow, gray, orange, light pink, light blue, beige combined with light green, lavender, white, etc.
Remember that to decorate the nursery it is necessary to use high-quality and environmentally friendly materials, because your child will spend a lot of time in this room.
Laminate or parquet is perfect for finishing the floor. But the carpet should not be large; it is advisable that it fills only the playing area. This way, less dust will accumulate in the room.
A room in light beige shades with neoclassical furniture design is suitable for teenage children, however, it is better to add color accents here too.
Regardless of the chosen shade of the walls, make the ceiling white so as not to visually reduce the height of the room.
The neutral background of the walls will allow the child to concentrate well on homework.
There are quite a lot of details in this interior that overload a small room, but the white background of the decoration compensates for this feeling.
If the children's windows are oriented in the north direction, choose a warm palette for decoration: this will create a psychologically comfortable and cozy atmosphere in the room.
Room for a teenager
Children spend more and more time at the table, so special attention is paid to the arrangement of the workplace. For studying, it is advisable to allocate a place near the window so that the working surface is illuminated as much as possible by natural light. In a narrow, long room, the role of a desktop can be played by a tabletop mounted in a window opening. If you install hanging or built-in shelves on the sides of the window, you will not have to install a special bookcase.
In a room with two children, it is not always possible to arrange full-fledged workspaces for both students directly in front of the window (narrow window opening). In such cases, it makes sense to install structures that combine a table and a shelving unit. Such furniture is placed along one wall or at opposite, adjacent ones. Sometimes for one child you can equip a traditional set (bed and table), and for another you can choose transformable furniture (table/bed).
The layout of a children's room of 9 sq.m allows for efficient use of space if you choose a loft bed for furnishing the room (the bed is located above the workplace). Such furniture allows you to combine two zones – working and sleeping – in a small area. The freed up space is used to install a sports corner or organize a recreation area.
Increasingly, a room for teenagers is decorated in a minimalist style, which is characterized by functionality and simplicity. Light neutral shades are used to decorate the walls, which visually enlarge the space. Thanks to the small amount of furniture, it is easy to rearrange the room. For a convenient layout, a minimum of items is used: a table with an armchair, a bed, a small tall wardrobe. Additional storage spaces (for books, equipment) are mounted shelves.
Designing a comfortable bedroom correctly
The bedroom refers to the personal living space that every family member must have. This living room is used for sleeping and relaxing, which means it must be isolated from other rooms. One bedroom can accommodate two beds, for example, for a married couple. In other cases, when designing a new house, it is best to plan the living space at the rate of one bedroom per adult or child.
In housing with a high degree of comfort, each resident has his own personal room. In this room, ideally, you can not only sleep or relax, but also work, study, and receive guests. Thus, we have the following optimal bedroom sizes:
- 8 sq. m. – at least for one person. It is not advisable to arrange a bedroom in a smaller room;
- 10-12 sq. m. – minimum bedroom size for two people;
- 13-15 sq. m. – medium-sized bedroom for two. It is sometimes called the master bedroom;
- 12-14 sq. m. – a bedroom for one person in a comfortable house;
- 16-18 sq. m. – a matrimonial bedroom in a house with high comfort.
It is worth noting that it makes no sense to unnecessarily expand the area of the living room reserved for the bedroom. A larger room becomes less cozy, which is not good for the area you decide to designate for sleeping.
Bedroom sizes in houses and apartments
However, the recommended minimum for most countries in the world remains 8 square meters. m. In such a room you can put not only a bed, but also a cabinet, a closet for linen and personal belongings, as well as a desk and an armchair.
A comfortable bedroom for one person has the shape of a rectangle. Then a single bed and other pieces of furniture are perfectly arranged there. If this is a bedroom for a married couple, then it is better to choose one that is close in shape to a square. It is highly undesirable for a sleeping room to have sharp corners - this makes it uncomfortable and impractical for furnishing and cleaning.
If we are designing a bedroom from scratch, we need to make sure that its depth is no more than twice the width. And with a room size of 20-24 square meters. m. you should also take care of a beautiful complex floor plan in which you can arrange niches or alcoves.
It is very good when the design of a living room involves dividing it into functional zones. A comfortable bedroom includes not only a place to sleep and relax, but also an area in which clothes, books are stored, there is a place for morning exercises, and there is also a designated area for a dressing table. Next to the bedroom, as a rule, there is a bathroom: a bathtub and a toilet.
What does an ideal bedroom look like?
Another significant detail when choosing a place for a bed is the location of the windows. If possible, it is placed parallel to the light front and so that the sun's rays do not shine into the faces of those sleeping.
The work or study area, on the contrary, is located near the window. Places for storing clothes and other things are located further from the windows, in a darker part of the room.
One of the most important conditions for the comfort of a bedroom is its insulation. That is, the room should not be a passageway, but in order to get into it, a corridor is built. It is undesirable for the door to the bedroom to open from the living room; it is unacceptable if the bedroom is directly connected to the kitchen.
To make storing clothes, shoes, books and other items more practical, built-in wardrobes are placed in personal living spaces.
A built-in wardrobe can run along the wall, occupying its entire surface, be located in a niche, or replace a wall or partition between two rooms.
For homes with a high degree of comfort, a dressing room is installed; as a rule, it is adjacent to the bedroom. This room is fully adaptable for storage, and can also include an ironing board, mirror and dressing table.
For boy
When planning a room, it is important to take into account the interests of each child and his preferences. The baby definitely needs a lot of space for active games, and therefore there should be a sports corner in the room. The play area is furnished taking into account the child's wishes. For lovers of constructors and puzzle collectors, you should place a comfortable table near a window so that the tabletop is illuminated as much as possible by natural daylight. It is advisable to place a rack next to the table, on the shelves of which it will be convenient to lay out boxes and arrange assembled models.
In a teenager's room, pride of place is usually given to the computer desk. The play area successfully turns into a relaxation area where a sofa is installed for guests. In order not to lose a full-fledged sleeping place, you can install a loft bed or arrange a podium by the window. In a nursery for two boys it is better to put a bunk bed. To save money on tables, it makes sense to attach a long tabletop near the window, on which there is enough space to arrange two workplaces.
Playground equipment
Modern psychology recognizes the theory of child development through play (play activity is different for each age period). Playgrounds for young children must be equipped with soft carpets.
If desired, you can purchase special educational carpets from IKEA (subject paintings of traffic rules, images of flora and fauna, alphabet and numbers). This area is supplemented with a table with board games, a magnetic or interactive board for teaching writing, counting and reading.
For girl
When choosing the layout of a room for a baby, all principles of decorating a child’s room are followed. Many parents associate a girly room with a four-poster bed, lots of pink bows and pillows. Indeed, some girls dream of a princess room, the style of which involves a pink palette and elegant furniture. These dreams are most often realized through the use of elegant finishing materials and bright decor.
A girl’s children’s room should also have a full-fledged sleeping area, a play area and storage systems. It is recommended to place a table in the play area, at which it will be convenient to make crafts and dress dolls. It is also advisable to place a low rack with open multi-colored boxes to make it convenient to fold toys and doll clothes. It is better to leave some shelves for arranging souvenirs and framed photographs.
A large mirror must be installed in a schoolgirl’s room so that the girl can preen herself before going out. The best option is a wardrobe with one mirror panel. In this case, you need to make sure that the bed is not opposite the mirror, otherwise this may cause psychological discomfort.
In a spacious children's room for two girls, the beds can be placed with the headboards against the wall. And then, to separate the sleeping places, a part of the wall is used, against which a low chest of drawers or compact bedside tables are installed. As a rule, girlfriends often come to visit a teenage girl, so it is important to arrange a place for receiving guests - several armchairs or a sofa. It is better to place furniture close to the door or near the work area.
It is also important to pay attention to the “gaps” between pieces of furniture. Since these areas of the area are classified as “dead” zones, if used correctly, it will be possible to maintain more free access to other areas.
