Designing Sports-Themed Rooms for Kids
The San Diego Union-Tribune has an interesting article about an interior design firm that was challenged to design a lacrosse-themed bedroom for the kids of potential new home buyers. Designer Kim Hosking talks about the challenge of designing rooms for children, and how kids have become more involved in the decorating process:
“One thing that's starting to happen is that the kids and the whole family unit are part of making the decision. We want to get them excited about moving here. We want them to picture themselves lying on the bed doing their homework, picturing themselves putting their trophies up and those kinds of things.”
What's interesting is that, while specialty rooms are nothing new, kids have taken them to new creative heights recently -- aided in large part by ideas they gather from both home decorating TV shows and the Internet.
“Kids are so much more savvy these days... They get on the (Web) and figure out what they want to do. They're involved a lot of times in designing what the room is going to look like and come in with their own ideas... It tends to be a very good springboard for them saying, 'I want to do something like this or that.”
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