Kids & Play Rooms

Creative Uses for a Faux Mantle

I have a project in my mind that I’ve not had the opportunity to do just yet.  If ever we finish the basement, my vision is to create a faux fireplace focal point and avoid the “box with cheap carpeting” look.  But it’s got to be fun and kid-friendly. My original idea was inspired by [...]

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Hooking Up Kids Rooms For School

It’s back to school season! To help things along, I tweaked my kids carefree summer rooms a bit in hopes of helping them get ready faster in the mornings and to inspire them to do homework. Ok, so maybe I’ll settle for just getting them out the door with no tears. Here are a few inexpensive tweaks I made…

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Rx for Hospital Room Decor

Decorating children’s hospital rooms is a real challenge. Most hospitals don’t have big budgets for interior design, there are many safety concerns that take top priority and children’s hospitals serve all ages of kids (including the parents). Here are a few easy and inexpensive ideas.

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A Non-Princess Pink Room

Most little girls will want a pink bedroom at some point in their early lives.  Here’s a redesign project where a four year old girl reached a compromise with mom.  A pink room, but without any princess influence. Doable?  Absolutely. For under $200? You bet. The strategy was to let pink be pink, but anchor it with [...]

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The Ultimate Sports Room

I was doing a staging consultation on a lovely home this week. All was as expected, until I entered the basement.

There, before my startled eyes was the most thorough tribute to any football team I had ever seen. Now I’m not a big sports fan, but I felt the energy in this space as if I had 50 yard tickets for the big game. I felt the wind in my hair, the sound of the crowd, the smell of spilled beer (wait, that part might have been real). Game on!

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Third times a charm…the evolution of a girl’s room

This little girl’s room has had three designs over the past three years! From pink, to beach, and now to French Modern. Enough already!

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A kid’s Room – 3 Versions

Hi!  I just added a new post at HomeGoods Openhouse Blog – 3 different arrangements of a kids room, with a redesign angle for the last one.  Yes, I’m being lazy asking you to click over to see it….but you’ll also find great inspiration from the other 6 HomeGoods bloggers as well!  So check it [...]

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How to make a December birthday special

Assuming birth months are distributed evenly, 8.3% of you have a December birthday. And if you’re under 10 and celebrate Christmas, that’s just way too much excitement saved up for just one month of the year.I know.I have an 8 year old whose birthday is just four days before Christmas. So how do we make [...]

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