Safety and Style in Your Child’s Room

Safety and Style in Your Child’s Room

Safety and Style in Your Child’s Room
Text: Mélanie Pratte

Decorating the room of your little cherub is not child’s play! Interior designer Pierre Isabelle tells us the questions we should ask before we start – to guarantee results everyone will love.
Whether you’re decorating solo or with a professional, answering the following questions – which the designer also asks his clients – will enable you to clearly identify your child’s tastes and help you to reconcile them with your own priorities for the room.
Infant, child or pre-teen?Your child’s age will partly determine the theme, colours, style and furniture of the room. Pierre Isabelle also advises choosing decorative touches based on the child’s developmental stage: Brightly coloured mobiles stimulate motor development in infants, imaginative motifs promote creativity among five- and six-year-olds, and so on.
Short-, medium- or long-term?“If the clients tell me they plan to redecorate in two or three years, I recommend more age-specific colours and themes. But if they want the decor to grow with the child, I advise them to choose more classic styles and colours. I also suggest they invest in better quality, more durable paint and bedding,” Pierre explains.
“This factor also brings us to the issue of whether or not the client wants the room’s decor to reflect the latest decorating trends,” he adds. “Once that’s been decided, we can choose from among the (often more expensive) ultra-fashionable items, or else we browse the larger range of more classic ones.” (use hyperlink to continue article)