Kids rooms. Those oases of chaos and mess and piles that are often decorated with butterflies and tank engines. Am I the only one who has children with rooms with cribs and toddler beds, but otherwise unrecognizable as cutsie stopovers for the minis? Sometimes I feel guilty about the lack of Dora or Thomas the Tank Engine. At least now I know I'm actually part of a trend toward less cutification and more longer term sophisticated planning for kid rooms of the future.
With today's kids and the problem of toy-drift, parents are buying more furniture with an eye to children getting older, and leaving Barney behind. For parents with the green inclinations, there is no end of organic cottons and natural woods on the market these days.
Meanwhile, is it ok that my middle daughter slept in the laundry room for a year?
[Photo Credit: San Francisco Chronicle]
