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Cool Interior Tree Home: Best Kids Bedroom Design Ever? There are a lot of ways to make a nice bedroom, but for kids there is an element of excitement that is just as important as bedroom size and style.
As these pictures illustrate, a cool bedroom for children can be a virtual fantasy world in itself – in this case by making the outdoors the driving interior design idea and central concept of the bedroom space. Complete with climbing ropes, ladders, swings and all kinds of hidden storage spaces, this bedroom brings all of the elements of an outdoor play space inside and makes the room feel like a self-sufficient home at the same time. The best part, of course, is the tree house in the center of the room – who would not have enjoyed that as a kid growing up?
Space Saving Furniture: All-in-One Multi-Use Desk Design. The designers at o4i have won awards for all kinds of cutting-edge industrial design, some conceptual and some actual.
Based on a thoughtful analysis of actual work patterns this desk design idea takes into account real-life uses of spaces and furniture, arriving at a solution that is both logical and highly creative. This so-called Office Singularity is based on the idea that there are three ways in which we work, relax and interact within or office areas – social/interactive, functional/focused and casual/private. We meet, present, socialize and collaborate while standing up on one side of desk, sit and prepare, produce, work alone at another and summarize, synthesize, chat and contemplate lying back at the third.
While (or perhaps because) this design is so simple, singular and elegant one still has to wonder whether they have gotten the problem right – despite the incredibly elegant solution. Lofted Space-Saving Furniture for Bedroom Interiors. Tumidei is more than just a furniture company – they construct modern and relatively inexpensive (no, not cheap) pieces of furniture that they also create compositions from – interior design photos that you can use to shape your own space.
Holy Hideaway Beds! Best-Kept Bedroom Design Secrets. People seem to have an aversion to the idea of a hidden fold-out wall bed, perhaps dating back to the infamous classic: the built-in Murphy Bed.
These days, however, there are amazing high-tech beds designed by companies like BonBon around bedroom design ideas of high style and ideals of space-saving multifunctionality. Some of the best of these hideaway beds are like secret rooms that blend invisibly into an interior design scheme and others add as much space as they displace. One of the most clever fold-out bed innovation is increased storage integration – from beds hidden behind shelves that rotate out of the way to ones that fold down with the shelves still in place by below the extended bed, such as those in the pictures above. The images do not even do the designs justice, as the seams are nearly invisible even upon close inspection. Not Just for Kids: 7 Space-Saving (& Adult-Sized) Loft Beds. Adults sometimes have trouble with the associations a bunk bed conjures to mind.
Lofting full-sized beds may be the best-kept secret when it comes to bedroom layouts: they can make room for entire desks or dressers below and represent a far cheaper alternative to moving apartments when you run out of space. Consider, for example, these stand-alone ideas and built-in solutions from via Remodelista. Minimalist metal ladders and railings can make a lofted sleeping area feel much less childish, while decorative touches can integrate an elevated portion of a bedroom without rendering it visually detached from core themes of material, color or decor. Toddler Tower: Smooth, Safe & Stackable Kids Bunk Beds. Function drives this four-piece modular design, but it manages a modern look despite the thoughtful, child-friendly elements that went into its elemental plan, creative construction and careful color selection.
First and foremost, smoothed and softened polyethylene edges (for the ladder as well as the loft and bed units) make it safe to assemble, play around and sleep within the blue-toned stack. Aside from stability and and durability, cleaning is a necessary consideration with kids in the mix. At the same time, though, there is a retro-modern look that appeals to adults as well – and a rounded simplicity that speaks to stylistic configurations and defies cheap construction materials and techniques. Finally, the stacked elements can be broken down into component pieces to create a single-level sleeping area, or variably used to facilitate a fort or toy storage zone on one level or the other. Design by Marc Newson. Loft Bed turns Single-Floor Studio to Two-Level Apartment. The thought of loft-style sleeping may bring back childhood memories of kids’ bunk beds … but for urbanites in small not-quite-double-height apartments like this one in New York City, clever space-saving furniture designs like this one can also help make the most out of tiny-interior dwellings with low square-footage, narrow layouts and limited access to natural light.
A few simple white wall and ceiling/floor planes added by KSWA help divide spaces within this (essentially one-room) redesigned residence, creating an entrance passage – while providing enclosure from above and the side for part of the kitchen and a desk workspace below. The resulting small hall has a side ladder leading up to the bedroom. Also, by thickening the vertical-wall zone a hallway closet is created for much-needed additional storage as well as further structural support for the loft space above. Interactive Interiors: Convertible Kids Bedroom Furniture. There is an unfortunate tendency for people to think of interior design as a binary proposition: there are fixed elements (structure, furniture and fixtures) and there are flexible elements (furnishings) which are small, light, additive and non-essential.
Designs like these, however, can teach children from an early age that the line between permanent and portable is not so cut and dried as it may seem as illustrated by the GAB children’s furniture design company. Rolling bed units over comfortable child-sized couches, for example, allow kids to maximize play, work and relaxation space during the day but shift their interior space to sleep at night. Movable tables and beds on wheels make it possible for each child sharing a room to customize the space when they are using it and to open up more room during the day by tucking one bed beneath the other, adding fun and functional to a simple small space design.