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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Hebe Hatton

Small kid's bedroom mistakes – 10 easy design errors you can make, and how to avoid them

Wooden clad kids loft bedroom

It's easy to make mistakes when designing a kid's bedroom. It's exciting, it's fun, you get you use colors you would never dare use elsewhere in your home, and you can go all out with wallpaper and stickers and patterns. It's a chance for you to think like your kid and design a room that they will love. But with all that freedom comes plenty of opportunities to make the wrong decisions. And it's made even tricker when you are dealing with limited square footage.

So in order for you to design a room for your child that works for them, works for you, looks lovely, and has a bit of longevity, we asked designers what mistakes you should try and avoid when designing small children's rooms. From not including enough storage to taking a theme too far (their love of dinosaurs may not last forever)...

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