Decorating With Decals

Mar 25

1-kids-room-wall-decals

Thanks to David Tor­rents, I’ve finally real­ized that wall stick­ers can be fun! I’ve never really been a huge fan of decals, despite my love of art, but even I would love to play around with this set of stick­ers inspired by the work of Dutch graphic designer and teacher Karel Martens (pic­tured above).

As you can see, the Karel Kit is made up of numer­ous, col­or­ful meccano-like parts that chil­dren can stick together to cre­ate their own shapes, scenes and sto­ries. The decals are semi-transparent so they’re par­tic­u­larly effec­tive on glass, as shown above, but will adhere to almost any surface.

I’m smit­ten, and my enthu­si­asm has prompted me to share a small selec­tion of orig­i­nal decal finds – enjoy!

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Back To Basics

Mar 13

Organic Typography Bedding for Kids

I have two spe­cial birth­days com­ing up in April (Miles turns 8, and Dylan turns 17), so I’ve done a lot of vir­tual win­dow shop­ping lately. It’s no secret I love one-off vin­tage finds, and I always enjoy look­ing for the per­fect gift, but this year I’m find­ing myself short on inspi­ra­tion. I guess these guys really do want for nothing!

How­ever, the other day I was brows­ing Present & Cor­rect (a per­sonal fave), and it struck me that you sim­ply can’t go wrong with basic let­ters and num­bers at any age. Mod­ern or old school, col­or­ful or black and white, there’s no short­age of cool kids’ alpha­bet and number-themed prod­ucts, and many will appeal to their design-loving par­ents as well.

Here are some of the things I found…

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Pretty Organized

Mar 06

Organized streamers in Geronimo's balloon studio

Orga­nized stream­ers in the Los Ange­les stu­dio of bal­loon girl Jihan Zen­cirli of Geron­imo. (via glit­ter and pearls)

A drawer of carefully organized glitter and pastels in Martha Stewart Weddings Editorial Director Darcy Miler's craft room.

A drawer of care­fully orga­nized glit­ter and pas­tels in Darcy Miler’s craft room. Would you expect any­thing less from the edi­to­r­ial direc­tor of Martha Stew­art Wed­dings? (via martha stew­art)

Organized swatches and a magnetic strip for tools in a craft studio / workspace

A clever way to orga­nize swatches and a mag­netic strip for keep­ing craft tools close at hand. (via pin­ter­est)

Colorful & organized crafts supplies in bookmaker's studio

Col­or­ful & orga­nized craft sup­plies in book­maker Angela Liguori’s Boston stu­dio. (via martha stew­art)

Organize your craft studio / workspace: picture ledge with rail underneath to hold ribbons or string

Mount a rail under­neath a pic­ture ledge to hold rib­bons and string. (via ikea fam­ily live)

Room for Play

Mar 01

fantastic handmade cabin bed in a kid's bedroom in France - love!

fantastic handmade cabin bed in a kid's bedroom in France - love!

fantastic handmade cabin bed in a kid's bedroom in France - love!

I’m totally in love with this cabin bed cre­ated by French blog­ger Jus­tine of Pepito mi Cora­zon for her son Ito. Be sure to check out her online shop Gaupito as well, it’s filled with won­der­ful & mag­i­cal things for children.

via french by design

Cool built-in storage in a playroom - love the rings!

Kid's room & playroom in an Oslo family home - love the play table!

This Oslo home designed by Archi­tect Espen Surnevik for his fam­ily of five is filled with inno­v­a­tive ideas for keep­ing the fam­ily orga­nized. How cool is that play table?

via bo-bedre.no

Loft bed with legs made using trees from garden, giving it a forest hut feel

Loft bed with legs made using trees from garden, giving it a forest hut feel

Design­ers Johanne & Palle Bruun Ras­mussen made this fab­u­lous loft bed for their son Sigge using legs made from a tree in the gar­den, giv­ing it a mag­i­cal for­est hut feel. The hand-painted sky motif is a per­fect fin­ish­ing touch :)

via design*sponge

Gorgeous Handmade Decor For Kid’s Rooms

Feb 05

Wool Fabrique: Modern, Handmade Children’s Decor From Bosnia

I went on a whirl­wind trip to Play­time Paris last week­end and just had to share my ‘coup du coeur’ with all of you. There’s always so much to see at these events that it’s dif­fi­cult to do jus­tice to every designer, prod­uct, or booth. I tend to run the aisles quickly, trust­ing my instincts and hop­ing to find some­thing that will make me stop in my tracks. And I did.

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Fun In The Kitchen

Jan 30

Sunnyside Egg Shaper - so fun!

Sun­ny­side Egg Shaper
avail­able here for $12

Hav­ing a hard time get­ting your kids to eat their break­fast? This super fun egg shaper may pro­vide just the encour­age­ment they need. Who wouldn’t love to start their day this way! (via kid crave)

When smoke starts coming out of the chimney, the water is boiling!

Home Cook­ing Steamer
avail­able here for $10

We all know that the quick­est way to bring water to a boil is to put a lid on the pot, but how can you tell when it starts to boil? Just wait until smoke starts com­ing out of the chim­ney! Fun :) (via not­cot)

Fun In The Kitchen: Karate Chopper

Karate Chop­per
avail­able here for $12

The black belt let­tuce knife! Your kids will be beg­ging to help in the kitchen when you pull this one out.

French Design For The Young At Heart

Jan 23

Design for the home by L’Atelier d’exercices

Have noth­ing in your house that you do not know to be use­ful or believe to be beau­ti­ful – William Morris.

Where do you go when you’re look­ing for a really spe­cial gift for a friend or a mem­ber of your fam­ily? We all have our favorite addresses, places where we know we’ll find some­thing a lit­tle out-of-the-ordinary, tailor-made for a loved one. As the inter­na­tional design and home decor trade fair Mai­son & Objet kicks off in Paris this week, I thought I’d do some­thing dif­fer­ent today and share a snap­shot of the work by French stu­dio that focuses on design for kids and the young at heart.

Let’s have a closer look!

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Weekend DIY: Simple Tile Flooring For Your Garage

Jan 17

Weekend Project: DIY Tile Flooring

Let me give you a lit­tle back­ground… My stu­dio is above our garage. The craft sup­plies were get­ting out of hand so I decided to store them in the garage below the stu­dio. The only prob­lem was the stained con­crete and stud walls (no sheetrock). I wanted to dress up the space and make the garage more of an exten­sion of my work­space. Basi­cally, I needed tile, shelv­ing, and walls.

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