How to arrange the perfect room for a teenager
A Life / / December 19, 2019
Eugene Zhdanov
Interior designer and decorator. Author of the popular blog Instagram.
1. Listen to the wishes of the owner of the room
If the design of children usually deal only with the parents, the teen room - own space almost formed person who wants to be an adult and to express their opinions. Therefore, if you do not want to miss with a choice of furniture, curtains and wallpaper, better listen to the occupant of the room and make a list of his wishes.
2. Provide convenient storage items
Make a reliable investment in the future and set a spacious wardrobe with a corresponding internal content: drawers, rods, shelves. Especially if you want to teach your teen to snug clothes storage and do not wish to see scattered around the room t-shirts and jeans. Very handy when the internal elements of the cabinet easy to transform - to change the height of the shelves and rods, adapting to changing the child's growth, and also to vary their number.
3. Equip space for video games
Teens often spend a lot of time in front of a computer or game console. Fight this pointless, so it is best to create a comfort zone in the room
video game. If your teenager prefers to play on the console, it is very important to think about where and at what height will be placed TV. The distance to the screen should be calculated in proportion to the diagonal of the device.TV diagonal inches | The optimum viewing distance, meters |
32–46 | 2–2,9 |
47–55 | 3–3,5 |
56–60 | 3.6 or more |
Remember that the eyes should be looking at the screen center. If you place a TV above or below the line of sight, will have to throw back or lower the head.
4. Create a work area
The workplace should not only be comfortable, but also to customize schoolboy on a serious way. Where better to put your desktop? Where there is nothing to distract a teenager from school: away from the TV and other devices that make shift attention. The ideal solution - set the table in front of the window. The fact is that any artificial lighting - this is an additional burden on the eyes. Therefore, it is good if there is an opportunity to place a workplace under a window or next to it. If you allow the height of the window sill (75-78 cm from the floor), it is possible to "build", turning it into a full table.
5. Think about a place to store school supplies
Textbooks, notebooks, protractors, pens, pencils, and dozens more school supplies - all this must be a separate place. The simpler and more compact storage system organized school things, the easier it is to maintain its order. You can pay attention to the shelves for the children of the IKEA, in which the shelf portion may have an open structure, and the part is designed with facades or in the form of boxes. In the future, if the need will disappear in the boxes, they are easy to clean, thus adding the usual open shelves for books.
6. Consider the use of gadgets
Youth room - a lot of different gadgets that require a lot of chargers and, as a consequence, leads. If you do not want them to be entangled the room in advance, think about the proper location of outlets. They can be placed on two levels. Lower - 20-30 cm from the floor. Upper - directly behind the TV screen. Both levels are connected by a cable channel, built into the wall.
To cope with the chaos chargers You can use the USB-sockets with built-in adapter. Modern companies (for example, Legrand and Schneider Electric) offer a lot of modifications. The socket may be single or double, with the additional force regular USB-connector, equipped with a switch. There are models with special holders for gadgets.
7. Plan area for socializing with friends
Agree: not very good, when the guests are seated on the bed. If your teen a lot of friends whom he is pleased to invite to her, it's time to arrange a cozy lounge area with a comfortable couch (and if allows the size of the room, it is also a chair). This space will be comfortable to read, watch television and socialize.
8. Choose quality materials
Speaking of finishing materials in the teen room, we mainly talk about the wall coverings. In the course can go and wallpaperAnd paints, and removable panels, and combinations of several materials. On the wall can be applied by painting, graffiti and stencilled drawings, decorative plaster. Most importantly, remember to paragraph 1: should pay attention to the child's wishes. Color, pattern, material must conform to his ideas about comfortable and beautiful room.
In the book "Children of your dreams" you will find even more tips on how to build a comfortable and safe room for a child of any age. Eugene Zhdanov, a designer and decorator, tells how properly zoned premises in accordance with the the age and needs of its inhabitants, how to choose eco-friendly finishing materials and elements clearance. All in order to create a comfortable space in which the child will develop, learn and create.
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