Two Children's Bedrooms

Project completed: 2018 | Location: Berkshire | Project type: Residential interior design

Our clients had just moved into a new family home in Berkshire and knew exactly where they wanted to start: their children's rooms. Before the rest of the house was touched, these spaces needed to be finished, functional and genuinely loved, so the children would feel settled and happy in their new home.

Children's rooms present a particular design challenge. If you get them wrong they can date quickly - too themed, too young, too specific to a phase that soon passes. Our approach was to create spaces with a personality that felt exciting now, but with enough restraint to grow with the children through every stage between pre-school and early teens without needing to be pulled apart and started again.

As with every project, we began with our in-depth colour psychology and style questionnaire. This process helps clients discover and articulate their own preferences, even if they are not familiar with design terms. For family homes, we extend that conversation to include the children themselves, balancing what they love right now with what will still feel right in five or ten years. Playful themes can absolutely work; but they just need to be interpreted in a way that can morph and change as the child grows.

We worked through detailed 3D visuals with the clients before anything was ordered, allowing them to see exactly how each room would come together, how the colours sat together, how the furniture filled the space, how the character of each room would feel in reality. For busy working parents managing a house move at the same time, that clarity made the decision-making straightforward and removed any worries about getting it wrong.

The finished rooms feel considered without being precious and are enow spaces the children have genuinely claimed as their own.