Product Description

Kids need room to grow and rooms that grow with them. Today's parents are looking for design ideas to enliven, organize, and give identity to their children's rooms that can evolve as their child grows. Here are imaginative room designs for infants, toddlers, and kids that are fun, durable, and flexible. Each chapter offers full color photos of fresh and innovative design ideas for children's bedrooms, bathrooms, playrooms, and studies. Information on fabrics, wallpapers, wall murals and other accessories like curtains, chairs, night lights, table lamps, and rugs are all presented with information on what works for kids' rooms throughout childhood. Interviews from experts in this area of design as well as insight from actual parents and children who have created successful spaces at home are included to guide parents as they create the right decorative style and elements for their child's space.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #842994 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Anna Kasabian has 28 years of experience as a writer, editor and communications professional. She writes about interiors, interior design, garden crafts, home and garden preservation projects, and architecturally significant properties. Her byline appears in Woman's Day Special Interest Magazines, The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, New England Travel & Life, Yankee Magazine's Gardener's Companion, and Boston Elegant Wedding. New work will appear in Coastal Living Magazine. She has also been featured on National Public Radio's Boston affiliate, WBUR, Homestore.com, an online magazine, and as a guest on HGTV.

Customer Reviews

A very special and "user friendly" how-to guide
Kids' Rooms: A Hands-On Decorating Guide by interior design expert Anna Kasabian is a very special and "user friendly" how-to guide for creating wonderful rooms crafted especially to meet the needs of children. Filled from cover to cover with a wealth of tips, tricks, techniques, and enhanced with full-color photographs of delightful, inspirational, and friendly room designs and colors for young people, Kids' Rooms provides practical inspirations for home owners and apartment dwellers, from creating safe and fun play areas for children of all ages, to soothing bedrooms for boys or girls, to babyproofing for an infant's safety. Kids' Rooms is an especially enjoyable and very highly recommended instructional guide for parents wanting to cherish ambiance, practicality, and originality in the decor of their children's rooms.

A decorating "must-have"
If you have children and are considering redecorating their rooms, you MUST HAVE this book! The details and suggestions are wonderful. There are even lots of helpful hints and project ideas which are practical and easy to do. I have rarely found so many unique ideas on decorating children'ts room all in one place. Especially appealing is the use of "real" children using their thoughts, ideas and actual rooms. A book well-worth referring to over and over again!

Search no further...
Anna Kasabian has done it again! Her latest book will appeal to all pocketbooks and tastes. She offers a unique array of ideas from accents to basic furnishings in a concise, easy to follow style.The book is a wealth of creativity, practical and beautiful, to boot. The photographs are wonderful. The book even contains drawings by children of their dream rooms, which are both poignant and illuminating. Grandparents, this is the book you've been looking for. You can't go wrong. Best of it's sort.