Design Project: Aiden's Room
The Space: An oversized upstairs bedroom with a large window and a tall, elaborate ceiling.
Design Challenge: Create a bright, fun space for a 9 year-old boy, add a desk and storage, balance room proportions.
Solution: Along the bed wall a metal loft-style bed is placed over the existing queen-size wooden bed. Bold wall graphics in bright, cool colors evoke a mountain horizon, balancing the tall wall and adding visual interest. The loft bed and the fort-like area created below it are fun for sleeping and playing. An existing wood dresser is paired with a retro desk in bright orange and a modern aluminum chair. Long drapes in a colorful leaf pattern frame the large window, and wall-mounted bins provide extra storage. A narrow wall adjacent to the window is paneled in natural wood to add interest to the long wall. In Aiden's room modern shapes combine with natural textures and themes to create a 'modern mountain camp'.
Design Challenge: Create a bright, fun space for a 9 year-old boy, add a desk and storage, balance room proportions.
Solution: Along the bed wall a metal loft-style bed is placed over the existing queen-size wooden bed. Bold wall graphics in bright, cool colors evoke a mountain horizon, balancing the tall wall and adding visual interest. The loft bed and the fort-like area created below it are fun for sleeping and playing. An existing wood dresser is paired with a retro desk in bright orange and a modern aluminum chair. Long drapes in a colorful leaf pattern frame the large window, and wall-mounted bins provide extra storage. A narrow wall adjacent to the window is paneled in natural wood to add interest to the long wall. In Aiden's room modern shapes combine with natural textures and themes to create a 'modern mountain camp'.
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Design Project: Noah's Room
The Space: A 10' x 10' upstairs bedroom without distinguishing features. The 9 foot tall ceiling adds a feeling of space, but dwarfs furnishings.
Design Challenge: Create a space using bright colors for an active 7 year-old boy, add a desk and storage, balance the scale of the room, add a focal point.
Solution: Walls provide the impact in this room with the use of paint and a distressed-brick patterned wallpaper. Colorblocking balances the high ceiling and directs the eye to the new focal point: a life-sized motocross graphic that seems to jump from the wall. Traditional dark wood furniture is paired with a modern diamond-plate steel faced desk and chair. A composition of shelves, wallpaper, paint, and graphics provides balance and interest to the desk wall, while metal gears and wheels act as wall art. The use of large-scale blocks of color take the eye to the room's perimeters making this small room feel more spacious.
Design Challenge: Create a space using bright colors for an active 7 year-old boy, add a desk and storage, balance the scale of the room, add a focal point.
Solution: Walls provide the impact in this room with the use of paint and a distressed-brick patterned wallpaper. Colorblocking balances the high ceiling and directs the eye to the new focal point: a life-sized motocross graphic that seems to jump from the wall. Traditional dark wood furniture is paired with a modern diamond-plate steel faced desk and chair. A composition of shelves, wallpaper, paint, and graphics provides balance and interest to the desk wall, while metal gears and wheels act as wall art. The use of large-scale blocks of color take the eye to the room's perimeters making this small room feel more spacious.