Best Design For Your Kids

Designing Your Home for Kids

We believe that a smartly designed home is the best way to rest and revitalize for your next adventure. Putting together your perfect home design is to understand your design priorities and follow them through. Designing for Kids can be tricky, the design needs to be safe on top of being aesthetically pleasing. Having three kids of my own, I learned through designing rooms and play areas for all of them. Here are some insights to my discoveries and some website explorations into kids design.

Tips on Fun for Kids

Kids excel the most when they are having fun. Studies show that they focus readily and learn more effectively. That is why designing interesting and fun rooms for your kids in your house may just be a good start to achieving this.

There are many great ideas to designing that fun and interesting kids room: here are some of them:

1) Adding a drawing canvas in the room.

2) Adding sports facilities, e.g. hoops.

3) Placing a Building blocks section, e.g Lego area.

4) Adding a play stage for fun performances !

5) Using recycling concepts to encourage eco-friendly practices.

Some of the best websites that features fun and interesting kids room designs are listed below:

1) Babble. Unique and fun kid bedroom ideas.

2) Pinterest. Fun Kid room ideas.

3) Home-designing. Kid Room Design.

4) Houzz. Fun Kids Room Home Design Ideas.

5) HGTV. Kids Playroom Design Ideas.

6) Digsdigs. 25 Fun and Cute Kids Rooms.

7) HouseBeautiful. Kids Room Design.

8) House to Home. Children Bedroom Ideas.

I came across this interesting article from ArchitectureArtDesign which features the best drawing canvas/chalk board designs for your kids room. See it here.

Another noteworthy web article from Twistedsifter features space saving furniture for your kids room. See it Here.

Tips on Safety for Kids

Accidents happen in and around the house especially if you have children at home. There will always be that minor scrapes and bruises along the way as kids grow and discover new things. The real problem is when the more serious injuries happen. You will be shocked to know that 90% of these serious injuries are actually preventable !

Accident hot spots in the house, to be frank, can be anywhere ! But the most frequently areas associated with accidents are listed below:

1) Kitchen

2) Bathroom

3) Bedroom

4) Swimming pool

5) Garage

6) Living Room

Most common accidents that occur are :

Batteries or electricution, Burns and scalds, Carbon monoxide poisoning, Choking and strangulation, Falls, Fire, Guns, Chemical poisoning, Laundry packets, Medication poisoning, Sleep accidents and suffocation, Toy injuries and Furniture Tip-Overs.