A Growing Child’s Special Furnishing

It feels like it happens overnight when you realize that your infant is now a toddler. Without even realizing it, your little toddler is old enough for school. Since children grow so swiftly, it is not practical to continually redecorate. A little design plan can save you money and time spent purchasing new furniture every few years.

Loading up on basic furniture pieces with traditional look is a fantastic style choice. Classic picks will stand the test of time. Adding a little piece of yourself to a basic piece of furniture keeps it new for your child’s room. Professionals use many different tricks and techniques to incorporate old furniture to a new and make it feel fresh, and here are a few ideas that may help you do the same.

Wood Furniture, Unfinished: Primary pieces of furniture for a youngster’s room are bed, dresser, armorer and bookcase. Sturdy and well-made pieces of décor, like art wall plaques and art, can last for years if they are able to adapt to your child’s needs. Purchase unfinished wood furniture and wood wall art that can be painted and repainted to accommodate changing tastes in colors, themes, and patterns.

Bed, Convertible: It is very common as the expense of cribs has increased over the years for manufacturers to create the ability for a crib to morph into a child’s bed. The original crib railings can be taken off and shorter railings can be substituted, and you can purchase an extension kit that will make the bed long enough to fit your young school age child. By making sure that your furniture is neutral in color as well as style, it will always make a great foundation for a child’s room. By including new trim and hardware, some furniture manufacturers make it possible for you to update the look of your same basic piece instead of buying new.

Armoire: An armoire is a foundation piece of furniture to include in a child’s room.  It may come with a table surface, which can double as a changing table for an infant, and it can store supplies from blankets to diapers. Excellent for a growing child, the armoire can be designed to hold whatever you need from clothes to toys. Ideal for a study area, the armoire table makes an exquisite desk, and then you can store school supplies in the rest of it.

Changing table morphs to chest of drawers or bookshelf: What originates as a changing table can fold over its top surface to become a dresser. While some changing tables turn into dressers, others become bookshelves, which can be employed to store books or toys.

Bench: A bench with storage below its lid is wonderful for doubling as storage for toys. Be sure to choose one that is easy to open and that won’t crunch small fingers. As your child continues to grow the bench can turn into a reading nook with the addition of some fluffy pillows.

Storage Cubes: Great for storage at any age, the modular storage cubes are a good basic piece of furniture to add to any child’s room. Some modular storage cubes are built such that they can be assembled to create a bookcase or wardrobe, and some have doors that can be attached and detached. As with any furniture combination using classic lines and a neutral color palette makes sure that the storage cubes will remain useful for  a long time.