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February 16, 2017

How to add fun colour to a kid’s room

How to add fun colour to a kid's room | Growing Spaces

I’m a big fan of decorating with neutrals, but I make an exception when it comes to the kids’ bedrooms, where we’ve taken a more colourful approach. When these were decorated a couple of years ago, we used bright colours that…

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October 26, 2016

Spooky murals for Halloween walls

Halloween murals | Growing Spaces

The twins spotted these funky Halloween wall murals over my shoulder when I was on my laptop and thought they were super cool, so I couldn’t resist sharing them with you too. Created by Murals Wallpaper, these graphic spooky designs…

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February 11, 2016

DIY plywood kid’s desk area and IKEA hack: Ez’s bedroom

DIY plywood kid's desk | Growing Spaces

I realised recently that I’ve never actually got round to properly sharing Ez’s bedroom makeover from last year. I showed you her brother’s indoor climbing wall and flip-down desk, and I did a video about the plywood Ikea-hack in Ez’s…

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January 22, 2015

Indoor climbing wall for an outdoors-themed bedroom

Kids bedroom with climbing wall | Growing Spaces

Up until now the twins have shared a bedroom. They’ve been more than happy with this arrangement, but now they’ve started school (in separate classes) and we’ve been encouraging their independence more we decided that the time felt right to…

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May 26, 2014

Pink bedrooms for girls and boys

Thanks for the great response to the first in my series on gender-neutral kids’ rooms last week (kicking off with the easily gender-neutral colour green). After a chat on Twitter, I decided to take up the challenge to prove that…

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May 19, 2014

Green gender-neutral kids’ rooms

Having boy girl twins that share a room means that we’ve had to find a decorating scheme for their bedroom that suits them both (see the bright shades in our Penguin-books-themed nursery), but even if this wasn’t the case, you…

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March 21, 2013

{Toy storage} Dressing up clothes rack

Whether it’s for dressing up clothes in the playroom, or for main clothes storage in a bedroom, I love this simple unit. Using a low rail for clothes means that the kids can get their clothes out themselves (I’m pretty…

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March 8, 2013

{Toy storage} Use garden planters for toys

One of my top tips for toy storage is to be creative and to put things to different uses, so when I spotted these garden hanging baskets (ok, the baskets in the above shot may not actually be hanging baskets…

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January 13, 2013

{Review} Vertbaudet coat stand

Back in August (!) I blogged about customising the interior of the twins’ wardrobe to do away with the hanging rail and make way for more shelves. What I wanted to create was a separate area for hanging the few…

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