Features of choosing a children’s wardrobe
A number of nuances for choosing:
- For newborns and children up to three years old, furniture items are selected by parents. In this case, preference is given to designs that are highly durable, stable and have a light color scheme in calm shades.
- In a room for two children, you can put a two-section wardrobe, providing each child with a personal corner for things.
- It is advisable to decorate a small children’s bedroom with more compact mini-models, corner designs, sliding wardrobes or transforming products.
- It is better to equip a children’s room for three children with one large and roomy design, since three separate wardrobes will take up a lot of space.
- Original models in blue, green, brown and other restrained shades are suitable for a boy, and products in lighter, not necessarily typical pink colors will fit perfectly into a girl’s room.
- In a bedroom for children of different sexes, you can place a rack or a partition wardrobe, which will simultaneously perform two functions, storing things and dividing the space.
- For a teenager, it is advisable to use larger structures with a laconic design, with the expectation of increasing the internal filling. Also, when choosing, you should take into account the taste preferences and wishes of the owner of the room.
What kind of material is there?
The following materials are suggested for production:
- Plastic.
- Wooden.
- Chipboard/MDF.
- Fabric.
- Glass.
The photo shows a room for a teenage boy with a wardrobe made of wood.
When choosing a cabinet, first of all, pay attention to the material and its characteristics. The design should be as safe as possible to operate and environmentally friendly.
The photo shows white MDF wardrobes in the interior of a children’s room for two girls.
Types of cabinets for children
Main varieties:
- Sliding wardrobe. It is quite convenient and currently a very popular solution. The sliding wardrobe can be located in a corner, placed along a wall or built into a niche. Thanks to the sliding system, this model significantly saves space and helps to create a cozy and stylish design.
- Wall-mounted. This modular piece of furniture includes separate hanging elements that can be arranged in any order. Such a solution will be an optimal and alternative option instead of a large bulky wardrobe in a small room.
- With open shelves. Designs without doors, having internal or side sections, provide very convenient placement of all necessary items.
- Closed cabinets. Such cabinet furniture can differ in different sizes, depths, single-leaf, double-leaf or three-leaf design.
- Transformer. Quite an interesting and unusual option, which involves not only storing things, but also transforming, for example, into a work area with a table. Such designs can be a wardrobe bed or be built-in and combined with a TV stand or any other pieces of furniture.
- Shelving. Will be an excellent choice for a school-age child. A rack with multiple levels and compartments can be easily filled with books, drawing materials or construction sets and can even be used as a partition to zone the space.
- Tall cabinet. These roomy, yet compact models are quite narrow and tall and are especially suitable for decorating a small room.
The photo shows a built-in three-section wardrobe in a children’s room.
A certain type of cabinet is distinguished by its purpose and, due to the correct choice, allows you to develop a child’s aesthetic taste and instill the concept of personal space.
Types of cabinets by purpose
There are several options:
- For children’s clothing. This wardrobe is equipped with pull-out shoe drawers, hangers, hooks or a pantograph for clothes. The main thing is that the design is accessible and convenient. A very advantageous solution is a spacious wardrobe, which provides the ability to change clothes right inside.
- Bookcase. It should be particularly durable and have shelves that can withstand heavy loads. The most convenient configuration for a child is considered to be a simple, narrower model, in which it is possible to arrange books and textbooks in only one row.
- Linen. Its interior space is divided into a place for linen and a wardrobe compartment. This design is most often equipped with small pull-out drawers, boxes for clothes, shelves and rods.
- For storing toys. It can be a design with open shelves for plush toys or a product with drawers that are suitable for storing small game parts.
The photo shows a girl’s room with a white wardrobe decorated with mirrors.
Such models facilitate convenient storage and distribution of items, provide an opportunity to ensure order in the nursery and teach the child how to properly organize space.
The photo shows a blue bookcase in the interior of a boy’s nursery, located on the attic floor.
How to place a wardrobe in a children’s room?
Popular placement options.
Corner wardrobe
Efficiently organizes space, saves usable area and frees up space for games in the center of the room. Corner products are quite roomy and are intended for storing toys, children’s clothing or shoes. Such designs can be of radius or rectilinear design.
The photo shows the interior of the nursery in light colors, decorated with a semicircular corner wardrobe.
Wall-to-wall
A large tall wardrobe along the entire wall, thanks to the ability to place a large volume of things, will free the room from unnecessary items and make the environment more neat and uncluttered.
Around the window in the nursery
The structures located near the window opening have a fairly high functionality. This area is equipped with a small wardrobe, a home library, or models are used in which you can place educational materials or simply various small items in the form of photographs, certificates, etc. Very often, two shelves, tall units or U-shaped cabinets are installed around the window.
Above the bed
It is a rather original and functional option, which is an excellent solution in case of a lack of storage systems. In addition, this arrangement perfectly complements and refreshes the design of the nursery.
The photo shows a two-tone wardrobe located above the bed in the interior of the nursery.
In the doorway
Wardrobes with mezzanines framing the doorway provide significant space savings and a convenient place for necessary items in a small room.
In a niche
This placement allows you to optimally use the niche and organize the living space. Such designs can feature a variety of facade decor, which can be a continuation of the walls or, conversely, have a bright and accent design.
The photo shows a boy’s room, decorated with a multi-colored wardrobe built into a niche.
Shape and size of wardrobes
A modular design with cubes, which can be arranged in any way, is especially unusual in appearance, which opens up space for design ideas and fantasies. Also very original is a product in the form of a kind of ladder or a slanted slide, most often having an open design. Such models are very practical and functional and completely change the atmosphere in the room.
The photo shows the interior of a room for a teenage boy with a yellow glossy L-shaped wardrobe.
A truly stylish design solution is a wardrobe in the form of a house, giving the children’s room a certain fairytale and elegance. No less popular, maximally capacious and functional are L-shaped products, which do not clutter or overload the room.
Color scheme
A properly selected range will give the nursery a particularly harmonious look. For example, with the help of a white wardrobe, it is possible to give the design tenderness, purity and add visual volume to it. Models in black or wenge shades have a more unusual, modern and even slightly pompous look and fit perfectly into spacious rooms with light-colored walls and a neutral ceiling.
The photo shows an orange wardrobe in a boy’s room.
Thanks to the blue shade, you can create a calm, peaceful and surprisingly fresh design, and thanks to turquoise, you can achieve a very interesting and unusual interior. The space becomes quite elegant with the use of a pink palette, to saturate the environment with new colors, bright orange and yellow colors are used.
The photo shows a children’s room for boys with a blue wardrobe placed along the entire wall.
Ideas for designing wardrobes for children
An ideal piece of furniture is a wardrobe with a mirror, which not only represents a very effective decor, but also helps to add additional light and spatial depth to the room.
The photo shows the interior of the nursery with two wardrobes with mirrored doors decorated with patterns.
A rather unusual design idea is to decorate facades with beautiful drawings, stickers or photo printing, with cartoon characters, fairy-tale landscapes, racing cars, favorite animals and other images.
The photo shows a wardrobe decorated with drawings of animals in the interior of a boy’s nursery.
Photo of unusual cabinets for a nursery
The designs can have the most unique design and configuration, for example, for small children, they often choose products in the form of Dutch houses or a fairy-tale castle with turrets, which, due to their zest, originally complement the design of the nursery. A laminated or slate cabinet-board is also a rather unusual solution, which is a great opportunity for drawing.
No less original are models in the shape of a gingerbread man, which are suitable for decorating a children’s room, both for a boy and a girl, or cabinets with additional built-in lighting, allowing you to diversify the everyday and ordinary interior.
Recommendations for internal filling
A children’s wardrobe has a universal purpose, can be used to store a wide variety of things and have different filling options. The interior space of the model for clothes should be divided into several sections, in the form of a wardrobe with a rod for hangers and drawers for small items, the rack is filled with shelves, separate compartments for toys and open sections for books or textbooks.
To keep the room in order, the structures are supplemented with drawers and baskets for things, in the nursery of a growing schoolchild, boxes of various sizes and heights are installed, which are suitable for placing sports equipment.
A selection of photos for girls
A nursery for a girl is often decorated with models in more delicate white, beige or pink shades, which can be decorated with cute drawings and patterns, mosaics or stained glass inserts. Quite often in the room of teenagers there are designs with a mirror inside the doors or wardrobes.
The photo shows a children’s room for two girls with a wardrobe located above the bed.
Ideas for boys
In a boy’s bedroom, wardrobes are installed in white, light blue, gray, blue, brown or darker shades, which can differ in the most unusual configuration and design of the facade. For a teenager’s room, choose compact, highly functional items.
The photo shows a white wardrobe with multi-colored shelves in the interior of a boy’s nursery.
Photos of cabinets in various styles
For a nursery in the Provence style, elegant designs with patina in delicate colors, with unobtrusive decor and simple lines are preferred; for the classics, cabinets with elegant lines, exquisite design and natural texture or wooden tall cabinets combined with glass are typical. Due to the symmetrical shapes, such products always look very organic.
In a room decorated in Scandinavian style, simple models in light colors with a glossy or matte finish will be especially appropriate; for a country-style interior, furniture made of natural wood, decorated with a small, discreet ornament or natural patterns, is perfect.
The photo shows a children’s room in a modern style, decorated with a wardrobe in a two-color design.
Modern design involves the use of modular products, built-in models, transformable wardrobes or compartment designs. Most often, these pieces of furniture are made in pleasant colors, which makes the atmosphere in the children’s room especially favorable. In a loft-style room, cabinets stylized as antique look interesting, in the manufacture of which, for example, rough boards are used.
