For the kelly green bedroom - those lamps are ENORMOUS for their bedside tables. Where can they put their books? Their glass of water? Their box of tissues? Their alarm clock? It looks nice, but it's completely impractical for kids OR adults to have so little space on your nightstand.
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If I tried any of this nonsense with my real, live kids, they would laugh in my face. They both have their own ideas about what their rooms should look like, and pale neutrals with designated zones for activities ain’t it. Who - WHO???? - lives like this?
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@Caroline Siecke
These are rooms for people who have nannies and house cleaners. I was hoping for something more practical. But what I see here is an opportunity for the crayons.
Enjoy, rich folks.
A 7 year old and a 2 year old...together?
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Only in NYC would parents consider having boys & girls share a bedroom. Here in the Midwest, everyone gets their own!
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We live in NYC and our kids choose to share a room. Some kids love it.
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coming from a large and extended family:
the headline might better lead with this adjustment:
"Double the Children,
Quadruple the Challenge"
cheers!!
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Where can I find the orange window shades in the first photo?
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These look nice. Guarantee the kids themselves would vastly prefer another bedroom furnished with IKEA.
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@ck Especially the girl who will soon be a preteen sharing with a little boy. I had that exact situation growing up -- was so thrilled when I got my own room.
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This is a bizarre article, written as it is from the perspective of a designer focused on brights-versus-neutrals, accents and accessories, etc. I was hoping for an article recommending space-saving bunk beds, storage containers, etc. Instead, what I got was something that seemed to be aimed at people who have to decorate the children's bedroom in their country house (the kids clearly have their own rooms in the primary residence) to a level where fancy guests walking past the door will deem it sufficiently stylish.
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Love the rugged design of that industrial pendant in the green room which is perfect for a kid's space. In my boys' bedroom, balls and other objects were always tossed about!
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Those are absolutely gorgeous rooms.
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Now, take two kids, let them live in it for a week. Then make them clean it on the weekend. Then do it again for good measure.
Then come back and write this article.
Having two little ones in a bedroom is inviting chaos into your life. You can plan and plan and plan some more, but until you have two forces of creative destruction making forts out of those sheets you picked out and doll beds out of the dresser drawers, all while migrating their whole bed to the floor to sleep on because "the dog does it, why not me daddy?"... Well, you just haven't lived, folks.
Seat belt engineers throw their cars against concrete walls for a reason. Kids room designers should throw their rooms at kid-nadoes.
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Proof that kids can still share rooms, lovely rooms, but still shared.
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"Double the children, double the challenge."
That slogan applies to more than just interior decorating. I wish people would think about it before having babies.
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I agree. This article, while showing beautiful rooms, completely overlooks challenge children really present.
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@JulieB That's because the article is about children's rooms.
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