Kids' bedroom ideas

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

'Children's stuff dictates the decorative tone of their rooms,' says House & Garden columnist Rita Konig. 'It is a fine residue, a child's chamber. Practise y'all want to go full tilt into the fantasy bedroom or let it be a fiddling more fluid? I remember, as a child, a male child I knew had his walls painted with a Star Wars mural, which was amazing. Equally my own girl, Margot, has grown (she is now four), her room has evolved from a sliver of a room off our chamber to what was my hubby'due south study. Information technology still has the black-and-white floral wallpaper from when, in an fifty-fifty earlier incarnation, it was my bedroom, and this has catered for the room's various tenants remarkably well.'

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

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    Paul Massey

    The Queen's Park house where Lonika Chande lives with her husband and son is filled with rich colour and pattern. Papier-m̢ch̩ letters from Edit58 spell out Sasha's name on 'Alice in Wonderland' wallpaper Рa Thirties design by CFA Voysey from Trustworth Studios. A Berber carpeting and woodwork in Farrow & Brawl'south 'Picture Gallery Ruby-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 attic-room feel while accents of blueish run throughout.

  • Romain Ricard

    In the same house, Maria implemented a playroom. Artificial 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 large Moroccan carpet, 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 main colours and graphic prints, but a cosy wrap around headboard ensures there'll be no danger of little ones going bump in the nighttime.

  • Alexander James

    With a Damien Hirst artwork and a vintage chandelier, this piddling daughter'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 house designed by Suzy Hoodless, the children'southward rooms were kept graphic and unproblematic; Suzy hates 'cute' decoration that they volition speedily abound out of - she has used a Børge Mogensen chiffonier as a irresolute table in her own dwelling. Then the simply concession she made to the children'due south ages was bright chief 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'southward south London home is flooded with natural light. The internal windows also emphasises a feeling of height, which is much-needed hither - the construction of an part space in a former school was adjusted to create this 'flat within a apartment'.

    'This apartment is really all about the windows,' designer and owner Gythahttps://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/interiors/existent-homes/gytha-nuttall-south-london-home explains. 'It'southward our one architectural feature, so I wanted them to actually sing for their supper.'

    Despite her classical artful, Gytha has incorporated more modern touches in the flat. She opted confronting cornicing in favour of a cleaner cease and enhanced the New York loft result by painting all the window frames night brown.

  • Michael Sinclair

    This absurd-toned colour scheme is the perfect neutral for cool kids who desire a fashionable sleeping room. The genderless mint shade adds to the vivid feel of the room, which is flooded with natural light. With sophisticated parquet floors and cosy armchair means minimal work is needed to turn this into a welcoming guest bedroom.

  • A stack of pretty mattresses, inspired past The Princess and the Pea fairy tale, doubles up every bit a pull-out bed for sleepovers in this immature girl'southward room by Thou&H Design. A screen marks the partition between the bed and the desk area, which is highlighted by a hand-blocked wallpaper from Hamilton Weston.

  • A panelled recess and two cupboards (ane out of shot) frame the bed in this room by Hugh Leslie. Farrow & Brawl 'Mizzle' light greenish paint picks upwardly on the checked fabric of the curtains and bed.

  • This male child's bedroom by K&H Blueprint has lots of fun details – a ceiling mural depicts the shadow of the suspended aeroplane, while its trail is mapped out in ticker tape that runs downwards the wall. The curtains are in 'Moondog', a Chelsea Textiles embroidered blueish linen by Kit Kemp, which features moons and dogs. They are lined with a red ticking.

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

  • An antiquarian wooden bed with a coronet canopy doubles as a daybed and is surrounded by papier-mâché animal heads from Edit58. The outcome is a mannerly room that volition exist easy to adapt every bit the child grows.

  • Salvesen Graham painted bunk beds in Farrow & Brawl'south 'Hague Blue' which brand savvy utilise of infinite in this small room. Under the lower bunk is a deep storage drawer and there is a built-in shelf at the caput of the bed. Painting the skirting and cornice the same shade every bit the beds ties the scheme together.

  • The drawers and shelves in this room by Giancarlo Valle provide storage for books, toys and clothes and look great cheers to the distinctive scallop edging, which is echoed in the handle-less drawers. It is playful rather than childish, making information technology more likely to stand up the test of time.

  • This doll's house-style cupboard and breast of drawers was an antique find, which has been painted in Fired World'southward '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 pigment. Designer: Patrick Williams of Berdoulat.

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

  • Paul Massey

    Nicola Harding created a sophisticated children's sleeping room in a 19th century London abode. The curtain cloth is by Tobias & the Angel, which as well made the shade seen on the Pooky table lamp. Felix Lighting Specialists made the wall lights. 'Sakura' wallpaper in heaven past Galbraith & Paul and a Vanderhurd carpet provide a foil for a night pinkish 'St Bernard' armchair from Howe and custom-made headboards covered in a matching material from Claremont.

  • Dean Hearne

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

  • Emma Lewis

    In a London firm designed by Amanda Baring, curtains made from 'Les Chiens' cotton from Clarence House add a playful note to a child's sleeping room which features antiquarian piece of furniture and soft colours.

  • Rachel Whiting

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

  • Michael Sinclair

    Prints on the wall in this chamber at Guy Tobin'southward London firm include a cat by the Spanish artist Sam3, a cross-department of a tree trunk fabricated up of tiny illustrations of animals, and a polar bear by Swedish artist Einar Hansen. The modest chair is a Twenties plywood piece past Due east Gomme. Farrow & Ball's 'Parma Gray' provides a bright backdrop to the prints (£43.50 for 2.5 litres of manor emulsion).

  • Elsa Young

    In this small-scale Mayfair flat, space has been maximised with three beds for children in i room. With its built-in bunks, the room feels like a sailing gunkhole cabin. Upholstered headboards and a Georgian mahogany chest add together homely touches.

  • Paul Massey

    Originally Rita Konig's room before the expansion of her London flat, this single spare bedroom would make a wonderful kid'due south room thanks to its unique and quirky blueprint. The curtains are in 'Broadcloth' felt from Hainsworth and the walls are lined in Tyler Hall'south 'Showtime 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 country firm in Shropshire, has enhanced the interiors of this one thousand belongings with her signature mid-century aesthetic without compromising original features. The girl's room features hitting striped wallpaper by The Art of Wallpaper and contains lots of bright, clashing patterns. This fun scheme makes for a lively space.

  • Tim Beddow

    Subsequently visiting her friend Kathryn Ireland in France'south Tarn region, Anne Halsey bought a French farmhouse retreat there and enlisted the help of the decorator to create a relaxed infinite perfect for entertaining. This twin bedroom is decorated with a pastel pink color palette and features white gauzy canopies, which are often adored by children (especially those who like princesses). The subtle scheme is ideal for young and teenage girls alike as this style is both fun and 'grown-up'.

  • Line T Klein

    The owners of this Somerset land house had not anticipated taking on such a large project, merely their conscientious renovation enhanced by modern decorative touches has resulted in a smart, yet comfortable, forever abode. This child's sleeping accommodation has floral wallpaper, a pastel palette and a simple white bed frame, allowing mixed patterns to work well together. The grey and cream carpet is 'Cora' from The Carpeting Company. The scheme is elegant nonetheless far from dull.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    The son's bedchamber in a Chelsea apartment designed by Sophie Ashby has a cloud mural past Surface View - a copy of Constable's Study of Cirrus Clouds. Velvet cushions and a spray-lacquered Danish desk-bound from Ebay add to the blueish theme, while the Zak + Fox fabric on the headboard provides a strong contrast. Animal motifs and a pocket-sized workspace brand this a perfect kid's bedroom.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    In the daughter's bedroom of a west London house, the ceiling has been painted to look like a circus tent, using Farrow & Ball'due south 'Rectory Red' and Paint and Paper Library'due south 'Slate I'. The addition of a big 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 living.

  • Alexander James

    Jamb manager Henry Bickerton has revived a Victorian town house once strewn with pizza boxes with advisedly chosen elements of English country-business firm style. In Henry's son Archie's sleeping room, the striped wallpaper is from William Yeoward, adding a bright element of fun without compromising on the smart aesthetic of the house.

  • Paul Massey

    Taking on the conversion of a disused chapel in Somerset, creative person Jonathan Delafield Melt, illustrator Laura Stoddart and their two children (xi and 13 years old) have made the smooth transition from incomers to long-term residents. In this bedchamber 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 front of the window.

  • Elsa Young

    Resisting the idea of moving or expanding into the basement, the owners of this London firm from the 1850s gave builder Maria Speake of Retrouvius the get-ahead to make structural changes to give their family unit and business the space needed. This children's bedrooms is flooded with light from both the window and skylight, with neat underbed storage to brand the most of the awkward 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, where at that place are plenty small-scale beds for the most riotous of sleepovers. Four-affiche beds, working fireplaces and generous armchairs make them gloriously comfy, but the light color palette, the brightly coloured modern rugs and the carefully chosen pictures and objects dispel any notion of stuffiness. Yellowish is a great colour choice for childrens rooms: it's brilliant, playful and well-nigh importantly gender neutral.

  • Yellow striped walls add playful colour to a brown furnished twin sleeping room perfect for children in a graceful, littoral state house. The twin beds have block-printed quilts from India.

  • Paul Massey

    At that place are four beds tucked into the eaves of this big dormitory-style children's sleeping accommodation at Kate Earle'southward chalet in the French Alps. Each bed has a curtain and a born chest so that the children have their own space and can store personal things. A skylight floods the attic room with natural calorie-free and brilliant colours throughout add continuity.

  • Simon Brown

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

  • Lettering on the wall and a stellar light fixture requite a more youthful experience to this stylish sleeping accommodation in designer Sarah Stewart-Smith'south Herefordshire family dwelling house. The small space is made to experience bigger with a curtain separating the cosy bed area from a seating area with a desk-bound, with the grey colour scheme continued throughout.

  • Paul Massey

    The attic of Kate Earl's mannerly 1920s chalet in the French Alps is the children's domain, and every fleck as thought through and sophisticated as the residuum of the house, however fun. Upwards there is this tiny second bedroom, with ane 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 director of the French textile and furnishing company). Vincent and his wife Bianca hired architect Marika Dru, an old school friend of Vincent's, to work on their Parisian flat, although decided to decorate it - including son Vasco'south room - themselves. We honey the mix of a grand painting with a quirky hanging basket.

  • Tim Beddow

    David and Lizzie Currie discovered Lucy Ford, a decorator later their own hearts, who transformed their bland west London house into a fashionable home to suit their family lifestyle. The cool kids' bedroom features bespoke children's beds and storage units past Alistair Robinson of FT2 Design, brought from the Currie's previous minimalist and builder-designed house.

  • Measuring just 90 square metres, this dwelling to a family of v in Chelsea, London, makes use of every inch of space. Designed by Eve Mercier, the small kids' bedroom features two broad, wall-mounted benches (underneath the loft bed) that are easily transformed into beds (bed-linen is concealed beneath), while a third, drawer bed slides out when needed. "We wanted a versatile space that could easily exist converted into a written report if necessary," explains Eve. A circular, frosted window overlooks the bathroom.

  • Johannes Mueller

    Oversize letters are scattered throughout interior designer Monica Damonte's domicile near Genoa, Italia. Each 1 represents a different family member's initial. The Mint Listing is a good source for vintage messages, with prices effectually £100 each.

  • Jefferson Smith

    In Steffanie Dark-brown'southward 10-twelvemonth-old daughter's bedroom, interior decorator Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay has subdivided the walls for a sock-it-to-me impact, introducing a psychedelic cloudscape ('Clouds Sonic' by Aimée Wilder) to a higher place the picture runway and a restrained impress below ('Tile' by Cole & Son). 'She wanted a funky bedroom,' says Henri. 'I tried to requite her what she was looking for, without doing something that would subsequently bulldoze you bonkers.'

    Taken from the December 2013 outcome of House & Garden. Additional text: Lisa Freedman and Emily Tobin. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Simon Brown

    If you're lucky plenty to have a spare bedchamber or un-tapped attic space, plough it into a playroom. Anne-Marie Midy and Jorge Almada - French and Mexican respectively - take washed this in their Brussels family abode, which they share with their 2 sons, Antoine and Olivier. The couple design modernistic piece of furniture and accessories that are made using traditional techniques by craftsman in Mexico for sale through their design visitor Casamidy. We love how the couple isn't agape to apply a magenta hue on the shelves in a space designed for boys.

  • Simon Brown

    The pattern of this boys' room was dictated by the original chimneypiece in their Brussels dwelling house. The leather headboards are designed past their father Jorge, who runs blueprint visitor Casamidy with his wife Anne-Marie Midy.

  • Emma Lewis

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

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

  • Simon Upton

    The conversion of this Victorian terrace in due west London was a collaborative effort between Thomas Croft Architects, John Cullen Lighting and designer Sarah Delaney. The brief for the kids' rooms at the meridian of the house was to go along them light hearted and comfortable. Task done nosotros'd say.

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

  • Jake Curtis

    Accept a small-scale space? This kids' room designed by Eve Mercier packs a lot of punch. Housed in a petite family unit home (a former artist's 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 tertiary, drawer bed (pictured here) which slides out when needed.

    Taken from the Apr 2012 issue of Firm & Garden. Additional text: Teresa Levonian Cole. Locations editor: Lavinia Bolton.

  • Paul Massey

    Interior designer Samantha Todhunter created this girl'due south room in a home in south London by combining a stunning bespoke bed, fabricated like an extended button-dorsum sofa, with a fabulous feature bullheaded, prints and a zebra impress rug. One discussion springs to mind: fun.

    Taken from the October 2013 event of Firm & Garden. Additional text: Dinah Hall. Locations editor: Liz Elliot.

  • Rachel Whiting

    When it came to designing this Chelsea dwelling house, Stephen Eicker well-nigh enjoyed working on this bedroom, belonging to the owner'south two sons, aged three and six. His starting bespeak was the eldest's obsession with trains, and this led him to the wallpaper by The New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg, which he teamed with a turquoise carpet with red-and-white fabrics. Accessorised with vintage toy trains, the room is original and playful without being overdone or saccharine.

  • Jan Baldwin

    In the children'due south room of Nori Starck's Venetian apartment, tall, padded headboards emphasise the pinnacle of the ceiling with its painted beams.

    Taken from the Jan 2009 issue of Business firm & Garden. Additional text: Olinda Adeane.

  • Simon Upton

    The children'due south bedrooms in Keith McNally's Notting Hill home allow for storage and system - as well as charming touches - similar this Toadstool lamp, £55 at White Rabbit England. The 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 design company Casamidy, aren't afraid to mix things upward 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 one of the children'due south rooms of Harriet Logan and Mark Faulkner's home 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 Finish. Harriet and Mark are the co-founders of Woop Studios, which designs and sells limited-edition prints via an online gallery.

    Taken from the October 2011 issue of House & Garden. Boosted text: Nicole Swengley.

  • Rachel Whiting

    This family home in Notting Hill was the work of Maria Speake, who along with husband Adam owns reclamation visitor Retrouvius. The children's sleeping room is decorated in Maria's playful manner, with bright light-green carpets, bold patterns and fun birch-ply shelving. The curtain fabric is by Svenskt Tenn.

  • Lucas Allen

    This sugariness, galleried play area designed by Trine Miller, has the dual office of creating an audacious play infinite, while likewise keeping toys contained and out of view. 'The idea was that the gallery was very much their private infinite,' says Trine, 'rather like a tree house.' Beneath, a pocket-sized bathroom has been installed.

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

  • Lucas Allen

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

    Taken from the Feb 2009 upshot of Business firm & Garden. Additional text: Liz Elliot.

  • Simon Brown

    While it'southward wonderful to become buck wild with the ornamentation of a child'southward room, sometimes a subtle approach, like that taken in this charming nursery past Emma Burns of Colefax & Fowler, can save time and coin - particularly if the baby is probable to graduate to a bigger room later on.

    Past opting for classic article of furniture and white walls as a base, this space and its contents will hands morph in to a spare bedroom with a modify of bed. The vintage fabric used for the blind is from The Lacquer Chest in Kensington.

    Taken from the April 2014 issue of Business firm & Garden

  • Richard Powers

    'The cardinal with toys is to blueprint somewhere for them to become,' says interior designer Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock. The green ottoman at the pes of the bed in this room doubles as fancy wearing apparel storage and a vault for gymnastics.

    Taken from the March 2014 issue of House & Garden.

  • Paul Massey

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

    From the Nov 2008 Green past Design supplement

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

    Taken from the November 2010 issue of House & Garden.

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

  • Lucas Allen

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

    From the July 2009 result of House & Garden

  • Alexander James

    Colour and pattern both enliven and define this family home. The graphic red and white Vivienne Westwood wallpaper[/link] in the nursery is far more diverting than whatsoever mobile. 'Minor children seem admittedly riveted past it,' says the home's possessor, interior designer Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock.

    Taken from the Nov 2012 issue of House & Garden. Additional text: Lisa Freedman.

  • Sarah Hogan

    Gabby Deeming has created the atmosphere of a New England-way holiday habitation with painted wood furniture and faded stripes. The walls are in 'Faded Damask' by Mulberry Abode, while the bespoke wooden headboard tin can be made to gild past Fafio, and is painted (along with all the rest of the wood work) in 'Bounding main Cliff' eggshell from Sanderson. The bedding is from Romo, and the driftwood side table is Oka.

    Taken from the Apr 2014 effect of House & Garden.

  • If there are 2 failsafe options for decorating a child'due south room, it's bright colour and fun furnishings. For the former, Farrow & Brawl's modern emulsion is a hardwearing, eco-friendly option which is condom for walls and toys. For the latter, a (firmly-secured) hanging chair is the elevation - pardon the pun - of childhood chic. This one is the 'Marrakech Swing' chair, £200 at Urban Outfitters.

    Wall: 'Stiffkey Blue', 'Lulworth Blue', 'Red Earth' and 'Mouse'south Back', £39.fifty for 2.5L water-based modernistic emulsion. Ceiling: 'Wimborne White', £36 for 2.5L estate emulsion. Closet: 'Wimborne White', £20 for 750ml manor eggshell. Woodwork: 'Wimborne White', £twenty for 750ml manor eggshell. Floor: 'Pavillion Grayness', £22 for 750ml floor paint. All at Farrow & Ball.

  • 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 Furniture. The William Yeoward grey fruitwood, 'Aberfoyle', chest of drawers, 'Bellingham' bench, and gray mahogany bed are available at Designers Guild.

  • Simon Chocolate-brown

    'Nosotros loved the absurd, pared-down mode of a house 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 top flooring of this westward-London is devoted to the children, with the son'southward room in off-white and the daughter'due south in soft greenish, plus a bathroom on the half-landing. Hugh's talent for joinery is evident here as well: natural language-and-groove recesses frame the children'southward beds, with capacious cupboard space on either side.

  • Simon Upton

    Iv-poster beds with pale pink bedding and 'Mistletoe' muslin create the perfect country sleeping accommodation. Being well-versed in decorating state homes, Fiona Shelburne knew she wanted to plough this Hampshire business firm into a family-orientated home. She used an English country-house style with a contemporary twist to create a cosy family infinite. The twin four-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 bedroom makes an elegant scheme in this neoclassical pavilion Bradwell Lodge. It is aptly named the 'Pink Room'. A bold Bernard Thorp 'Brimble' fabric has been used on the walls, bed and blind, adding graphic symbol and playfulness. The drape over the bed adds height, and gives the room a cosy den-like feel. Designed as a invitee room, we think the ideas could easily be transferred to a child's sleeping accommodation.

  • Paul Massey

    In this stylish children's bedroom designed by Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay, a fixed and shaped box pelmet with defunction in a stake blue fabric is a smart selection every bit it will not exist apace outgrown when the children become teenagers. The overall result is mod and elegant.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    The children's bedroom 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 dwelling - merely 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 terminate of the mean solar day.

  • Ngoc Minh Ngo

    In this boys bedroom the floor has become a design characteristic. Blocks of wood were stained in a variety of colours before being laid in a parquet style. The result is rustic yet aesthetic, modern only non at all clinical. The union jack pillow on the bed is a witty reference to the owners' time spent in the Britain.

  • Lucas Allen

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

  • Simon Dark-brown

    This children'south bedroom in a Sussex newbuild belonging to architect Ptolemy Dean is nestled towards the top of the firm. The cosy sloping walls are covered in painted wood panelling and busy with a few choice framed prints. The look is finished with witty touches - a dart lath and flags from around the globe hung like bunting.

  • Andreas Von Einsiedel

    This chamber in the Florescu's house belongs to Lizzie and Ion's son Leopold. Pattern - and therefore fun - is injected through the blind, made of Jane Churchill's 'Deverell Stripe'. This room is total of personal touches, for example, 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 called vintage article of furniture made of night wood. Her son has put his own stamp on the room by proudly displaying his drove of toys and curiosities.

  • James McDonald

    The canopy in this girl's sleeping accommodation, designed past Studio Alidad, was intended to go far feel 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 child's room by member of The List Room to Bloom features subtle dusty purple and gold accents against a neutral colour palette (see our white room ideas and how to apply white paint). This pattern shows how to create a child'due south room that is both magical and quite 'grown-upward', which means there volition be no need for a complete redesign within a couple of years.

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

  • Simon Upton

    In this boys' chamber, upholstered headboards add cosiness to the space.

    Anne-Marie Midy inherited this house in the south of France and has since lovingly restored it to refresh the interiors without losing the charm of the space. Decoratively, her touch was calorie-free.

    As much every bit possible, possessor Anne-Marie tried to match the wall colours to those that her grandmother had used, keeping the bedrooms the same subtle colours, just adding 'ribbons' of colour to outline the architecture and 'apparel the room'.

  • Sharyn Cairns

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

    This space tin can be used as a kids' play area or equally a chamber. Its blueprint, which includes a map carpeting and a striped characteristic wall, is both playful and fashionable, making the room fifty-fifty more versatile.

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

    Originally, Claire intended to do the ornament of the house herself. 'Rather naively, I thought it would be enjoyable. To begin, I went to a Graham & Dark-green warehouse sale 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, "Nosotros are going to need help."'

    The addition of a large basement extension to this Edwardian house 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' bedchamber, the white walls, ceiling, rug and bedding are brought to life with patterned blinds, headboards and a colourful carpeting. All of the patterns are unlike, introducing an chemical element of fun to the minimal room. It is the perfect design for a children's bedroom in a holiday home.

    The owners of this newbuild Commonwealth of the bahamas beach house turned to trusted interior designer John McCall to provide their business firm with a British sensibility, practical furnishings and interiors that are not 'also beachy'.

  • Sharyn Cairns

    This sugariness cranium bedroom, which belongs to designer and House & Garden contributor Ben Pentreath, tin be found at the elevation of his gently restored Georgian state house. The cosiness of this room makes information technology a lovely kids' bedroom. The twin beds sit nicely in the pocket-sized 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'southward sleeping accommodation, where grey walls provide a neutral backdrop for unusual design details. A 'Honey' carpeting by Paul Smith, hanging model aeroplane and car print on the wall likewise add together interest.

    Relocating to Oxford later 15 years in Japan and Hong Kong, the owners of this modern Victorian business firm put together a squad of experts to create a generally open up-programme layout full of intriguing design details to capture the imagination.

  • Paul Massey

    Relocating to Oxford subsequently 15 years in Japan and Hong Kong, the owners of this Victorian house put together a team of experts to create a by and large open-plan layout, full of intriguing design details. The spare children's room on the tertiary flooring has specially made built-in bunks.

  • Michael Sinclair

    With a characteristic respect for the cloth of this eighteenth-century house in Bath, designer Patrick Williams has carefully transformed it into a welcoming domicile and B&B. A neutrally busy playroom is filled with traditional toys, keeping with the immaculate restoration of this property without compromising on fun.

  • Elsa Immature

    The twin kids' bedroom in this architect's minimal family unit dwelling is decorated in crisp white with fun splashes of bright colour. Elegant cushions make for a cosy corner on the correct, while the child's workspace features a rustic wooden stool.

    Builder Francesca Oggioni had to set aside her rationalist principles when she was planning a new layout for her listed business firm in west London, so it would work every bit a family dwelling, workspace and backdrop for an extensive art collection. What do yous practice if your aesthetic is Italian modernist just you have just purchased a vi-floor Grade Two-listed Victorian boondocks house in w London? This was the dilemma that faced Italian architect and interior designer Francesca Oggioni six years agone when she purchased her home with her Belgian married man, a hedge-fund director, photographer and art collector.

  • Paul Massey

    This kid's room features a Hans J Wegner bed, which sets the tone for Danish simplicity in this white space. Simple, mod furniture complements the bright and blusterous feel of the scheme, while mustard curtains and a framed print on the wall add colour and interest.

    The design of this room is in keeping with the rest of the business firm, 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 found in skips - include archetype Knoll, Eames, Ercol and Hans Wegner furniture with some contemporary pieces by Hay and Donna Wilson thrown in for good measure out. Artwork, including vintage Carry On posters, a Lucienne Twenty-four hours silk mosaic and work by Pinkish Floyd designer Tempest Thorgerson, hangs on the walls.

    Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons own this modern, colourful Thirties business firm in rural Hertfordshire. Congenital 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-back design to that of a canning factory. This is not a view shared by Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons, still, who have lived in and loved the daring modernist holding for the past few years.

  • Paul Massey

    Heidi Lightfoot and Steve Gibbons own this mid-century house, built in 1936 past the renowned public sector architect Mary Medd. Vintage Star Wars figures are displayed in i of the boys' bedrooms, with the white backdrop making the colours of the furniture and accessories even more striking.

  • Elsa Immature

    In this converted Cotswolds barn, interior designer Pippa Paton has combined modernistic blueprint with natural materials to create a minimalist oasis that maintains its rural identity. This sleeping accommodation, which is flooded with light at the height of the barn, is subtly busy with children in mind. Plain white walls are accented with brightly coloured accessories and soft, comfy 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 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 back design of the house is made playful hither with polka-dot walls (and matching bed linen), colourful soft toys and a tiger carpet.