Room for Children


Book Description

The first book to present excellent design for children's rooms, these unique spaces are created by well-known designers, parents, and often even the kids themselves. Proving that good design is not just for the rest of the house, Room for Children takes children's spaces with creative seriousness. Whether for a newborn, toddler, or teenager, the rooms shown here enrich the experience of childhood while inspiring with their imaginative design. Showcasing work by top-notch designers, including Kelly Wearstler, Charlotte Moss, Alessandra Branca, Amanda Nisbet, and Thomas Jayne, among many others, the rooms offer a diversity of styles, from traditional to modern, formal to whimsical. Whether in apartments, houses, or country homes, for a single child or for several children, each creates a vision of childhood at its best. In addition to bedrooms, children's spaces devoted specifically to work or play areas illustrate clever solutions to typical design problems. With stunning photography by top interior photographers, such as Pieter Estersohn, Paul Costello, William Abranowicz, and Melanie Avecedo, Room for Children proves that children's rooms are a new frontier in design and is sure to appeal to designers as well as kids and their parents.




Kids Rooms


Book Description

Here are rooms that kids love-and the creative know-how for making these designs your own, whether your rooms are large or small, your kids tiny or twelve. Each chapter is packed with full-color photos of fresh ideas for designing children's bedrooms, bathrooms, playrooms, and studies. Information on fabrics, wallpapers, curtains, furniture, and rugs helps you navigate the vast array of choices available. Interviews from design experts, parents, and kids help you create decorative style that's real, that's fun, and that's just for kids.







The Smart Approach to® Kids' Rooms, 3rd edition


Book Description

Another updated bestseller in the "Smart Approach" series, The Smart Approach to Kids' Rooms starts with the premise: "Think like a professional." Parents will find all the inspiration and information they need to create any kid's dream room. Chapters include a basic primer on the general principles of good design and how to apply them to individual needs and lifestyles. Topics include: working with color, choosing furniture, organizing space, storage, special ideas for walls, windows, and floors, plus safety tips. One chapter addresses designing for children with special needs.




Kids' Rooms


Book Description

In a new how-to handbook from the author of Debbie Travis' Weekend Projects shows parents how to combine function, fun, flexibility, and creativity into designs for children's rooms, explaining how to incorporate youngsters' own wishes and suggestions and how to create a safe, comfortable room suita




Fodor's Disneyland & Southern California With Kids


Book Description

Providing helpful guides to traveling with children, these easy-to-use handbooks offer a variety of fun-filled, educational, hassle-free activities available in cities and regions around the world, along with planning tips, addresses, admission prices, age appropriateness and nearby lodgings and restaurant recommendations.




Great Kids' Rooms Collection


Book Description

From practical to storybook themes, hundreds of imaginative, beautifully decorated rooms for kids—from infants to teens. Ideas themed for both girls and boys. Inspiration for paint colors, furniture styles, window treatments, bedding, creative storage solutions, and fantastically inventive play spaces. Special appendix gives guidelines for choosing child-safe furniture, fabrics, and accessories.




Reinvent Your Kids' Rooms


Book Description

60+ decorating projects and ideas to quickly and easily transform your child's room in a day, a weekend, or during a complete remodel Step-by-step photographs.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell


Book Description

This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers--from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling--that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price.




Kick the Clutter


Book Description

Shares hundreds of strategies, fast fixes, and trouble-shooting tips for organizing living spaces and controlling clutter, in a guide that counsels readers on how to identify objects that are truly loved and needed while preventing vulnerable areas from becoming problems. Original. 25,000 first printing.