Tastefully decorated, tidy, ergonomic room plays no less a role in raising a child than talking about beauty and calling for cleanliness. The smart layout of a small children's room, which has everything you need and still has enough space for games and creativity, creates ideal conditions for the development of the child.

All parents strive to ensure that their children have a private room, and that it is furnished in accordance with the age and individual needs of the son or daughter. It is here that the child learns to independently maintain order, protect things, create beauty around him.

Adults, developing the layout of a small children's room, create for the baby a certain standard of a comfortable, rational, beautiful lifestyle. Having become an adult, a person subconsciously strives for the same model in the design of housing, trying not to lower, but to raise the bar.

The advantages of a small nursery

Why, when discussing the layout of a room, do we immediately talk about a small nursery?

First of all, because this is the reality of our days. Most parents allocate the smallest room for the children, since the layout of a modern apartment often leaves no other options - an “adult” bedroom, with an indispensable wardrobe or built-in wardrobe, cannot be placed in this nook.

Secondly, a small nursery is not a reason for grief. With a successful layout of this room, all the advantages of such a choice for a child will appear, and there are many of them:

1. The personal space of the child is scaled with him - the child gets his own little house in which he feels protected.
2. No matter how many toys you scatter, you can still quickly collect them - after all, everything is nearby.
3. The same can be said about things.
4. If two children live in a room, they have practically nowhere to fight, but there is where to keep secrets.
5. It is in a small room that dolls and books with which the child is friends are especially comfortable.
6. If you want to run around, the whole apartment is at your disposal.

All of the above applies to kids, but what is it like for a teenager to live in such a room? Oddly enough, there are a lot of advantages, only priorities change.

1. This room is his untouchable personal space.
2. Parents do not go into the room for their things - there is no place for their wardrobes and shelving.
3. You can arrange a creative mess, but quickly clean up when friends arrive.
4. Friends love to come visit, they love this little lair.
5. Here, only what is needed, everything that has become unnecessary is immediately thrown away or distributed.
6. A teenager periodically makes redevelopment himself, decorates the space in accordance with his own preferences and ideas about convenience, originality and functionality.

 

As you can see, a small room forms the character of a child - independent, thoughtful, independent, enterprising - the main thing is to choose a good nursery layout from the very beginning.

Small - what is it?

I must say that the concept of "small nursery" is rather vague, and before discussing possible layout options, let's decide what size of room we mean.In the projects of well-known designers, a small one is sometimes called a nursery, comparable in size to the area of ​​a modern apartment for a young family. Let's be realistic: a small nursery is a room of 8 sq. m. (sometimes it is even placed in adapted premises of 6-7 sq. m., although this is prohibited by building codes) and up to 12 sq. m. m. And 12 sq.m. - this is not such a small room for one child, but, of course, quite small for two or three.

What really matters

In dreams, everyone sees the room of their beloved child as spacious, bright, with magnificent comfortable furniture and bright accessories. When it comes to a small room, it is especially important to decide what is really important for the good development of the child, and what is secondary.

Let's try to highlight the points that need to be taken into account in order to develop the optimal layout of the children's room, even if it is small. Let's just say right away that they often come into conflict with each other, and the decision you make will reflect your personal priorities in raising children.

Health

The health of a child who spends most of his time within the walls of a small nursery is most affected by the environmental friendliness of materials.

The choice of furniture, finishing materials, floor and ceiling coverings should be taken especially carefully. No matter how you ventilate the room, if you use synthetic materials that are not recommended for children - plastic panels, cheap linoleum, polyvinyl chloride, chipboard, vinyl wallpaper - the concentration of harmful substances in the air may exceed the permissible limits.

Materials that can be safely recommended for a nursery are high-quality linoleum, laminate, wooden parquet, for example carpet – provided that it is very easy to clean and wash. On the walls and ceiling - paper wallpaper or painting with water-based paints.

Furniture is preferably made of solid wood. It is not necessary to use expensive wood species, pine and birch are a great alternative for a nursery. Metal beds come into fashion again - openwork, thin, they bring light airiness to a small child and are absolutely safe from the point of view of ecology.

Psychological comfort

The psychological comfort of children depends not so much on the layout of a small children's room, but on the degree of illumination and aesthetics.

The smaller the window in the nursery, the more significant its impeccable cleanliness and the transparent weightlessness of the curtains. Not welcome partitionsshading any corner of the room. Natural sunlight is an indispensable condition for healthy development, physical and mental.

Color plays an important role in creating a child-friendly atmosphere. Unconditional favorites for children are clean, light pastel colors.

Purity

Easy cleaning of the room teaches children to cleanliness much more effectively than edifying conversations and perseverance of parents: this point must be taken into account when planning a small nursery.

When choosing finishing materials, furniture, evaluate how quickly they get dirty, and whether it is possible, and how easy, to wash them - especially for light surfaces. Are we supposed to be realistic? Sometimes it is easier to achieve a sense of comfort and order in a boy's room by decorating it in dark colors, brown and blue. Is it dark? But it's much better than stained light walls and grumbling mom armed with stain remover.

Development

The physical, aesthetic and intellectual development of a child depends on the layout of a small children's room.

In order to stimulate the child to exercise and give an outlet to his energy, it is necessary to leave enough space for somersaults even in a small room, albeit to the detriment of shelves and lockers. Now you can find on sale miniature, but fully functional sports corners that are mounted, occupying half a square meter of space.

For intellectual development, you need a comfortable play corner and a table for reading, drawing and modeling, and for schoolchildren - a work corner.

The well-thought-out stylish design of the nursery affects the aesthetic development of the child no less than children's artistic creativity, however, a place must be made for it. In addition to the desktop, you can install an “exhibition board” on one of the walls - a special perforated plate, on which it is convenient to attach children's drawings and crafts. For the smallest, many parents set aside part of the wall for drawing - in this case, until the child has grown up, white wallpaper (“canvas” for the first masterpieces) is re-pasted as necessary.

Safety

Safety in a small children's room implies, first of all, the absence of sharp corners and protruding fittings that can hurt you.

Considering that the second level is often used when planning a small nursery, all stairs leading to the mezzanine or to the upper shelves of cabinets must be absolutely reliable.

General principles for planning a small children's room

Nurseries have a universal purpose: here the child plays, studies, sleeps, which is why their layout is based on zoning, but in a very small children's room it can be very conditional - there is a play area on one wall, a work area on the other, and a bed on the third. Any partitions, even low ones, or dividing the space with furniture in a small room do not make sense - they simply will not leave usable space.

Based on this, it is necessary to allocate a zone for night rest, and then, in accordance with age and individual needs - zones for games, sports, study, daytime rest - but in total there should be no more than three or four.

The difficulty of a small room is that it is difficult for a child to concentrate on one lesson. Around, very close, a lot of distracting objects. I sat down to draw - and next to it was a bright book. She does her homework - her favorite doll looks into her eyes. I sat down at the synthesizer - a physics textbook on the shelf reminds me of the upcoming exam.

The main task of zoning a small nursery, especially a schoolchild's room, is to ensure that only what is directly related to his occupation falls into the field of view of the child, all the features of the layout are connected precisely with this.

As already mentioned, in a tiny nursery, perimeter zoning is the most common, but not the only one.

A small nursery for a baby - no surprises

No matter how cramped a room may seem, you can turn it into a comfortable nursery for an infant or preschooler.

There are no problems for the baby - a changing table in a bright place, a bed against the wall, on which direct sunlight does not fall, a small chest of drawers and a basket with a lid for dirty laundry - that's all the baby needs. It’s great if a chair for a nursing mother is also located here. A baby rug and large toy boxes are what he will need very soon, but there is always enough space for this.

When a child gets on his feet, masters the basics of independence, there are usually no big difficulties with planning either, but by this time the children's room for a small child must be arranged so that he distinguishes between the purpose of different zones.

The bed and chest of drawers is the place where he gets ready for bed and gets dressed when he wakes up.Low cabinets, racks or chests are houses where toys are hidden at night in order to play with him again on the rug in the morning. And, finally, a small children's table with a chair - a prototype of the future workplace, where the baby learns the first skills of drawing, looking at books and making pyramids. By this time, mom's chair has usually moved to another room to make room for games.

Often in the nursery there is a high cabinet or shelf at an inaccessible height - there the mother keeps useful ointments, dangerous bottles and various small things with which she treats, cleans, and combs her child. For a small nursery, a shelf is preferable - it does not take up space and is safer in the sense of restricting access to medicines.

No matter how small the children's room is, it is necessary to provide for a sports mini-corner in its layout, they are very compact, 80x60 cm.

The color scheme is soft pastel shades with the inclusion of several bright accents - they can be curtains, furniture, rugs.

Secrets of planning a nursery for a younger student

The features of the layout of a small children's room for a younger student are related to the fact that he needs to learn to clearly divide the time for playing, rest and the time allotted for doing homework. Let the room be small, but its zoning should be done so as not to distract the child from the lessons. Therefore, the key isolated zone is the working one - compact, but sufficiently isolated from others.

A low podium by the window will help to emphasize the special status of the working area, the space under which can be used for storage systems.

Sometimes, to save space, the work area is located under the bed located in the second tier - but in this case it is difficult to provide sufficient natural light.

It is reasonable to place the table “facing” to the window or wall, so that the child has shelves and shelves with textbooks in the child’s field of vision, and the play area remains behind. It is also very important for a younger student that the table and chair fit him in height and are comfortable. It is good if all the furniture of the working area - a table, a chair, shelves and racks - will be from one set or solved in one color scheme.

The night zone may remain the same by this age, but may undergo significant changes due to the lack of space. Starting from the age of six, you can use bunk beds, or those in which the bed is on the second tier, and the first is used as a seating area or storage systems.

In the play area for storing toys, not only low storage systems are suitable - chests and low bedside tables. The child is dexterous enough to use the upper shelves, so tall narrow cabinets, shelving and hanging shelves.

A very important point: when planning a small children's room, do not try to use standard depth furniture - 45 and 60 cm. For children's clothes on hangers, a cabinet depth of 50 cm is sufficient, and even less when placed on perpendicular racks. Under books and toys, as a rule, a shelf depth of 17-20 cm is sufficient. Reduce the depth of furniture, even if you have to make custom-made furniture for this - only due to the optimal depth of cabinets and shelving, you can increase the free space in a small nursery by one and a half to two times.

The color solution, as well as accessories, must be chosen together with the child - let this be his first serious experience in decorating his home.

Small room for a teenager

Of course, I would like to make repairs in the room and forget about it for the next 10 years, but this is not the case with the nursery. The child grows, by the fifth grade it becomes crowded at the children's study table, unless he is transforming, growing with the child.In addition, the room is filled with technology that did not exist before - a computer, audio systems. Where to place all this?

The computer takes a firm place in the updated work area. The playroom disappears from the teenager's room, and a recreation area takes its place. There is a sofa for guests, and musical and video equipment. The bed is either located on the second tier, or it is a folding sofa, which is not very good for the emerging organism.

The small room of a teenager, which he no longer agrees to call a nursery, needs a new layout, a fresh style.

 

Together with the grown-up child, make a drawing, outline a new layout, decide which style of decoration to choose and what furniture needs to be replaced. Furniture often has to be completely changed - this is due to the fact that it must have "adult" dimensions, and with a new interior design.

Teenagers, as a rule, choose a bold, often shocking, design style - loft, hi-tech, minimalism. Girls may like Provence or Art Deco. All these styles can be implemented in a small room, and in a different budget range.

The loft in a small nursery lacks space, but you can make a new layout - move the bed to the second level, make a podium under the work area by the window, remove cabinets and replace them with hidden storage systems, and place the sofa and equipment in the center of the room. Imitation of rough brickwork on the walls and posts complete the loft-style design.

Provence in a small room looks great: sunny pastel colors, small and large floral patterns in textiles, light, “faded” furniture, white walls - such a room will make a teenage girl happy. As well as the Art Deco interior. Despite the “rich” look, such repairs will be inexpensive - spectacular wallpapers, vintage accessories will create a style, and the predominance of white will fill a small nursery with air.

Both Provence and Art Deco are chosen exclusively by girls, and loft, high-tech and minimalism are unisex styles, they are liked by all teenagers.

Since the possibilities of using space are limited in a small room, the emphasis is on stylish accessories, colors, and finishes. Do not be afraid to overdo it, exaggerate - a little theatricality, playing in a teenager's room will not hurt.

Small nursery for two owners

To place two children on eight square meters is not an easy task, but if life dictates such conditions, it is doable.

For children over 6 years old, actively use the second tier. If the ceiling height allows (more than 2.5 meters), two beds can be taken out on the mezzanine. Then on the vacated area everything you need will be located - two workplaces and a common recreation area.

Toddlers will need two cots, but the play area can be shared.

Planning is everything

Everyone wants to create ideal conditions for their child to develop, so that he has enough space for games and study, so that friends come to him. But in real life, everyone proceeds from their own capabilities. If the apartment is small, this is not a reason for grief. For a child, the main thing is that he has a personal room, and its area is not so important.

Even in a small room, with the help of a well-thought-out layout, you can create a comfortable, stylish, beautiful nursery that meets all the needs of the child.

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