These kids’ rooms are indeed beautiful and inspiring and the details are amazing. I always get the yearning to decorate the girls’ room in some really put together way like this – but then am so inspired by so much, I can’t decide which way to take things. Does this happen to you? Or is this just me who has her head spinning with all of the incredible options?! If so, please share your experiences in the comments below!
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The Steinman House, 1956, Malibu, California, by architects Craig Ellwood and Jerrold Lomax, was restored by designer Michael Boyd. The children’s room flaunts a midcentury masterpiece—a George Nelson Marshmallow sofa by Herman Miller, with a cowhide rug and Jasper Morrison cork stools. The shelves of vintage colorful toys are also quite wonderful.
PHOTO: ROGER DAVIES
Fashion designer Jenni Kayne’s comfortable
Los Angeles home, by the architecture firm
Standard, was designed for family. In the kids’ playroom, mini furnishings and a teepee, are matched with custom-made storage cabinets for toys. And the walls are adorned with creative hangings.
PHOTO: ROGER DAVIES
The bunk room in a
Hamptons, New York, guesthouse by architects
Leroy Street Studio and designer
Thad Hayes provides plenty of space and simplicity for visitors. The color-blocked Nurseryworks bunk beds pack a geometric punch in the otherwise serene space. (August 2011)
PHOTO: SCOTT FRANCES
In her Manhattan duplex, designed by David Mann of MR Architecture + Design, magazine editor Darcy Miller Nussbaum created a whimsical mural, at left, for her daughters’ playroom. Simple furnishings are mixed with a floor-to-ceiling collage of family photos, and sweet decals for the pillars.
PHOTO: NIKOLAS KOENIG
On Mercer Island in Washington State, architect
Eric Cobb created a modernist glass-and-concrete residence for an entrepreneur and his two daughters. In one of the girls’ rooms, which features a desk chair by Arper and a rug by Pottery Barn, walls painted in Benjamin Moore’s Capri Seas give the room a feel of the Caribbean, especially as it overlooks the water. I would not leave this room if I lived here!
PHOTO: PAUL WARCHOL
In a 19th-century
Manhattan townhouse, Leroy Street Studio created this space on the attic level for a multifunctional boys’ room. Decorator
Christine Markatos Lowe designed this complete living solution with bunk beds and desks by Nurseryworks and a custom-made sectional sofa by Vladimir Kagan. What’s great is that the kids can sleep, study, play and relax in their own mini-apartment.
PHOTO: WILLIAM WALDRON
Publishing executive Robert E. Abrams and his wife, Cynthia Vance, recruited Joel Barkley of Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects to create a sleek, barn-inspired retreat in upstate New York. In the bedroom of their son, a tapestry version of Robert Indiana’s Love is the focal point of a custom-made ash bed/storage unit. The woven ethic rug and earthy color scheme finish this room off perfectly.
PHOTO: PIETER ESTERSOHN
