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  • Forget Walls, Your Kid's Bedroom Needs Bookcases (and a Shingled Roof)

    If I were a kid, this would be my dream bedroom for real. A tiny nook, shelves of books, a roof. If only there were a room big enough in my house, I'd totally lobby to squeeze this into one of the rooms (for my seven-year-old, not for me. Sigh.).

    Of course, this is an original and I'm hardly the expert craftsperson, sooooo ....

    Check out the end result. Dreamy, isn't it? (The entryway is underneath the flamingo.)

     

     

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  • Wee Wonderfuls: Full of Great Ideas for Kids Rooms

    Here on StrollerDerby, we talk a lot about kids rooms, toy-cluttered houses, and what to do about them.  So when I stumbled across Wee Wonderfuls, a fabulous website, personal blog and craft store by Hillary Lang, I knew I had to share it. 

    You can shop for a  "Stitchette" embroidery pattern or a "Put Together Kit" (Big Footed Bunny, Robot Boy, and more!) to spruce up your kid's room, or you can just admire Hillary's superb taste in everything from crafts, to art, to home decor (she did one whole wall of her newborn daughter's room in vintage doll quilts - you've got to see it!), and gather ideas for your next decorating project. 

    One look at her son's and daughter's vintage-meets-modern, calming, gorgeous rooms and you'll want to start all over again with paint samples and hours spent looking for just the right lamp on Ebay.  Don't say I didn't warn you! 

     


  • P'kolino Clothes Tree is Functional and Fun

    pkolino clothes treeThe jackets and sweaters and dress-up clothes and butterfly wings and belts and necklaces and (now that we're in swimming season) the goggles and bathrobes.

    These are things I pick up off the floor of my daughter's room daily. And every day I mutter, "I really need to get some hooks up in this piece."

    When I saw the whimsical P'Kolino (a play on the Italian word for "little one," piccolino) clothes tree ($94.85), I thought, "Perfect!"

    At four feet high it's just the right size for kids to hang things themselves, and there are plenty of low-hanging branches. The colors are fresh and modern. Best of all, though, is that the tree can literally be a "tree" or whatever your children want it to be when they are playing. Though in my house, I'm sure it would always be "that thing that holds all the stuff."

    Actually, we could use a forest of these. 

     



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