How can I organize my child's room to accommodate different purposes?
Well, kids' rooms are different because so many things go on in a kid's room. Kids do homework in their room usually, they play in the room, they sleep in the room, they have friends over in the room. There's a lot of things that go on in a kid's room. So, it's really nice if you can create different spaces for these things. A lot of times kids' rooms will have built-in units. I always like having a desk space in that built-in unit and sort of putting all their desk items, sometimes their art items, in that area. Having a play station, basically, or an activity station where they can have the toys that they would be building things with and creating things with. That's also a good thing to have. And I've also done things before where we've literally taken out 2 closets and done a built-in and created low activity areas with pull out drawers where you keep all the crafts materials, things like that. So, when you're working with a kid's room, it's really important to really like visualize all the things that a kid is going to do in that space and try to create a space that really works for them. So you have to keep that in mind. You're not just thinking, okay, I'm going to sit in this room and watch TV because that's not really what kids just do in rooms anymore. You also want to create a reading area. What's fun is having big bean bag chairs that you can also plop down in and your child can and read stories. And, when you're not in there, they can have fun. They can just lie down on them and read a book or do something like that.
