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Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
The Fine Furniture Design Bedroom Poster Bed King 6.6 1050-767.768.769 is a great choice for a bed that your kid will grow into.
Sharing the bedroom can help children bond. It can also teach them to compromise and this is a good thing since most siblings squabble. Spending some time on how you design the bedroom will reduce the quarrels and bickering. Here are some tips on how you can make your little ones share this supposedly restful area –
Ask for the Kids’ Opinion
If you want the design to be more successful, then be ready to include the kids in making the decision regarding their bedroom design. Young children will be more than willing to pick out the linens and wall arts that will be placed in their room. If you want a bedroom that will grow up with your kids, then be sure to steer them away from the cartoon character section.
Another way to involve the kids in decision making is to consider their individual personalities. If you can, have each child decorate a separate section of the room, then do so. Each one could have a wall covered with the kind of art that they go crazy over. Just make sure that their choices complement each other by providing them with an edited selection where they could take their pick.
Establish Some Privacy
Even when you are setting up a small bedroom, make sure that each child is given some private space. You can achieve this with compartments, individual desks, or separate toy boxes.
Set Some Rules
There are bound to be arguments but your role is to keep them to a bare minimum. You need to help your little ones learn to respect each other. You can begin by discussing that their personal properties should be just that – their personal properties. You should set the rule that they must ask for permission before they touch any of the other sibling’s personal properties. Teach them also that it is important to knock before opening the door. When the kids know about the rules, then they are likelier to adhere to them.
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Involve Even the Youngest Kids
Families that live in smaller homes often have their youngest kid sleep with the parents. More often than not, they spend longer time than necessary especially when the parents do not want to disrupt the routine of an older child.
Don’t fear because in most cases, children can adapt quickly. In fact, they are even happy to share the room with their sister or brother. If you doubt this, then ask other families that have already experienced moving a younger kid to the older one’s bedroom.
Set Boundaries
Apart from the rules, it would also help if you keep the younger child from messing up with the older kid’s possessions. To do this, have the older kids’ toys or properties kept inside a closet or at a height where the younger one won’t be able to reach.
A Secret Place
Remember that everyone needs a hideaway now and then – even little kids. You don’t have to set up a custom hideaway, it can be a simple playhouse or a tepee a few feet away from their beds. This area has to be somewhere where your little ones will enjoy each other’s company without the penetrating gaze of a parent.
A Place for Everything
It is not just important to free up floor space but also other areas of the new bedroom. It is easy for the kids’ bedroom to become messy especially when they have their play area there, too. Children play and horse around so be ready to set up a storage space that can hold all of their stuff.
Most kids are happy about the prospect of sleeping in bunk beds so let them. The underside of beds can also be storage areas for shoes or toys. Better yet, have a special cabinet or chest in their bedroom. The more drawers each cabinet has, the more stuff it can hold.
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016
Fine Furniture Design Bedroom Guesthouse Woven Twin Headboard 1220-434 is the right bed for your little princess.
If there is one good thing about siblings sharing a bedroom is that they get to bond, even compromise. Siblings tend to have misunderstandings but if you plan the shared bedroom carefully, then you can reduce the number of squabbles between them. Here are some tips on how you can make the sibling-shared bedroom a bit calmer –
The Kids Become the Architects
It is a must to include your kids in designing the room. This will avoid future complaints, too, so you had better involve them in the whole design process.
Don’t think that young children do not have an eye for wall art. Have them pick out the furniture, wallpaper or paint, and the accessories. Don’t automatically go to the cartoon character or sports linens that are on display.
Allow your kids to display their individual personalities. Assign a section for each kid to decorate. Each one can have a particular wall to cover with his designs or a part of the floor to scatter cushions. Just make sure that the designs complement each other or you would have a room that spells C-H-A-O-S. It is best to give them a smorgasbord of themes to choose from, preferably those that already complement each other so you won’t have to worry about tantrums later.
Assign a Personal Area
Give each kid an area of his or her own. Make sure that you provide ample private space for each kid even if you have just a small room to work with. This can be accomplished with an area rug, individual desks, or compartments. Separate toy boxes tend to work, too.
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Set the Rules
Every kid needs rules to follow; without them, they will just do what they want without any regard for the consequences. Arguments also result from parents who do not know how to set rules. While rules are important inside the sibling-shared bedroom, it is best that you keep them to a bare minimum. A perfect example is teaching them that they are not supposed to take any toy or property of the other sibling without asking for permission.
Teach also that they need to have private moments at times. Knocking before entering is also a good rule to set.
Even Young Children Can Share
Again, do not underestimate the sharing capacity of the younger ones. Don’t be tempted to keep the youngest child with you in the master bedroom. Older children’s routine can still be established since they can adapt to the youngest child’s nightly bawls.
Teach the young one to put his toys in his own toy box and not to take toys from his elder brother’s or sister’s box. High shelves yet sturdy shelves will also do the trick so that the older ones get to keep their stuff undamaged.
An Open Floor Space
Consider bunk beds when you have kids that are older than six. This kind of bed should provide ample floor space where more furniture or storage units can be installed.
‘Planning to extend or move in the future? Then find a bed that can be separated into two single beds when they no longer look cute sharing a bunk bed.
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A Place for Everything
A kid is naturally messy; expecting otherwise would be futile. Since they are messy creatures, toys and other stuff can be found lying everywhere; condition your kids’ minds to tidy up after playing. This can be better implemented if there is storage for everything.
Creativity Is Welcome
Kids are naturally creative. You can share their excitement for their soon-to-be-shared bedroom by going out with them to shop for the furniture that they will need, design the room according to their taste, and to show your support every step of their creation process. The sibling-shared bedroom project can be fun to make, just give it a chance.
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