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Kids room ideas
I got the final okay from the wife to take our "dining room" and use it as a kids room. The only precondition is that it can be easily turned back into a dining room 5-10 years from now. (does anyone use "dining rooms" anymore?). Nonetheless, I'm looking for some ideas to make this room a place for my kids to discover, grow, learn new things, etc. Any ideas for what I could do to the room?
Some ideas I'm looking at right now:
- painting it with paint that is magnetic (so you can make the entire wall like a refrigerator door)
- painting it with paint that makes the entire wall like a dry-erase board
- turning one of the corners into a music area (my guitar, accordian, banjo, and all the kids instruments)
- letting the kids paint the room every year?!
I know it's not what's in the room that counts, but what we do in the room. Nonetheless, I'm looking for as many ideas as possible...
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I second the ant farm idea. They are just so cool and fun for some kids. I left mine down in the basement for a year and a half and when I found it again, the ants were still very much alive.
Weird, huh?
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Since you are so involved in designing this room for your kids, you could try a remodeling project to make the room look like a little labyrinth, a lot of interesting corners, different colors and a lot of different things to discover and experience. Make this room a playing grown but also an entertaining study ground. You could try reserving a corner only for surprises and rewards, try thinking like a kid on this one, you won't fail, mobile little walls would work great. As for the dinning room, I don't think your wife will have it once you start building the design.
Jasonn at New Orleans remodeling
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Tony,
I like both your ideas for the walls! My question is, how long will you be in this house? Will this room every be for dining again? If not, I say go nuts and maybe change the theme by seasons.
I have used the Blackboard paint in the past and it is wonderful.
Enjoy you ever-changing space.
Cheers,
Toby
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Like you said, its what you do in the room that counts. Make this your special time together.
What are your kids favorite things to do?
I like the idea of turning one corner into a music corner. Take that idea and go into another corner. How about a discovery corner? Every week you can put something new there. A book about bugs, stars, dinosaurs etc. and along with that you can have a project to go along with it. Get some fossils or bones (they don't have to be real) and bury them in a box with sand. Have the kids dig them up. get a bug house and watch a caterpillar turn into a moth, view an ant farm, etc. make models of the planets, whatever you do make it fun and the educational aspect of it wont even dawn on them. just remember, It doesn't have to be elaborate to be fun!
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My kids are 10, 8, and 6 and I turned my dining room into the "Art room." The table is like a small dining room table, and down the center of it I keep cans full of pencils, scissors, markers, a stapler, etc. And in bins on shelves I have other things like construction paper, glue ... bigger stuff.
On the wall they each have a combination cork board/white board, where they can hang a couple of "works of art" and write messages.
The table is also where they do school projects, and where we play board games.
A couple of other thoughts:
-You can buy white board wall covering. One entire wall of my office at work is covered with it, and it works really well
-I tried making a magnetic wall, and had a tough time getting enough paint on there to hold magnets up
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I know the room would never stay like this in real life, but check out this picture as a fun/efficient way for storage.
http://www.hgtv.com/dc-design-childrens/kids-theater/pictures/page-3.htm...
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