Sweet dreams with Rafa-kids

I always wanted to create a magic room which would be all about children’s dreams and sleeping time. Unique space filled with dreamy soft colours and textures….

and here we are : new room created by Rafa-kids - we called it Sweet dreams. 

I’m not afraid of dark colours for children’s rooms. I think they give a feeling of cosiness to a room. I decided to create a space, with different dark elements : curtains, wall paint and dark furniture - in this case R toddler bed in dark chocolate. The base of the room was then kept in one atmosphere and calm.  All the accessories, which gave this room a personal character where selected with more present colours in mind: pink, orange and yellow. I wanted to give the room more details and soft girly character. 

For example, dark knitted lamps were personalised by adding little pink metal butterflies. New bedding in Rafa-kids collection ‘Ashes of roses’ was just such a perfect choice for this room. Reach texture of stonewashed linen and the deep and elegant colour of it. Together with grey and pink lavender pillows make all this look so perfect. 

Do you remember animal drawings from our Rafa-kids lookbook? They were designed for us by Asia Gwis / Kavka design. Well, we brought them into real life with us and made wall stickers to decorate. Do you like it?  We think they should be part of Rafa-kids collection very soon. 

What do you think about the wardrobe / storage wall to expose the garments, shoes and toys?  The grey colour is such a good base for these kind of projects….and if you will look very carefully you might discover a new Rafa-kids design already……

Special Thanks to:

Rotterdam kids store - Bonbonontheblock

for all the beautiful clothes 

from Mini Rodini, The Animal Observatory, Kidscase, GreyLabel , Stella McCartney Kids, 

and store in Sliedrecht - Loods5 for furniture and accessories: 

Eames rocking chair, Bloomingville rug, great lamps and baskets. 

NEW A teen bed - wide and comfy

It took us a while, but we did it!  We had plenty of customers asking for designing a wide and comfortable bed for their kids. We tried, we sketched , talked about it and talked even more.  Then we looked at our classic A teen bed which is a part of F&A set combination, and thought, well, why not to try and make a wider version of it. It is such a simple, elegant bed - do we really need something more? Let’s try it. 

Few weeks ago we got first prototype in Rafa-kids studio and we liked it a lot from the first moment we’ve put it together. 

If you have a lot of space in your child’s room and would like to get a bed which will go for years, 

I think we have an answer for you -  A teen bed. 

It is a very slim bed design with a great material efficiency. 

The best of both worlds: very sustainable in production and beautifully minimal in design.

Beautiful products from the collage: 

Rafa-kids NEW A teen bed  120x200 cm

Pantomime - Round pillow

White Stone Washed Linen Set 

White Stone Washed Pillows 

S shelf natural + white metal

White basket 

Colourful blocks - Millergoodman 

This is my Happy Place

I’m always so exited to see our Rafa-kids furniture in ‘real’ children’s rooms. This time it is even more special, since we can see how our furniture is growing with them when time passes. Two years ago I showed you this playful toddler room in Sweden: Antoines-Leonors-Room.  Peggy, mom of 4, created this room for her little boy Antoine and his little sister Leonor. Rafa-kids bed become part of this creative playground for children. Now, the little boy is not so small anymore. He is 6 and shares a new room with his sister Leonors who is 3 1/2 now. 

As their mom explained, she tried to put first a bigger bed next to the toddler bed, but the arrangement didn’t really work well.  We could not imagine a better option, than adding the F bunk bed above the toddler bed!  What I like the most about this set of beds, is the chance to create a little world under the bunk bed  for a younger sibling. Peggy did it so well.  Leonors sleeping area is looking so cosy and inviting. I’m sure it is for her a safe territory where she feels good and hopefully sleeps well!  

You can read personal story of Peggy and how she created this room here: 

Antoine-Leonors-bedroom.  Thank you for the lovely pictures! 

NEW Rafa-kids A teen BED

Finally we are ready to show you Rafa-kids NEW A teen bed!  

Following so many requests from our customers to make our classic A teen bed in bigger sizes, we are so happy to introduce A90 and A120 beds. The new sizes are respectively: 200x90cm and 200x120cm wide.  

We created this playful boys space, to show you how nice it is to have a bed in the middle of the room. It’s simple and elegant design makes the biggest piece of furniture in a bedroom almost disappear. The bed is very low, so visually doesn’t take much space and you will have so much pleasure to decorated it. Pillows and plaids, favourite cuddles and personal belongings will definitly take a first place in the room. Since the bed doesn’t have any headboard, it also makes it very flexible to position in a room. 

I can only say- Let’s play with it! 

Cosy corner for siblings

Today we are crawling under Rafa-kids bunk bed ….

 it’s a cosy and comfortable little corner for a little girl or two girls sharing a room …

or friends coming over to play and sleep….try to imagine all the possibilities!  

If children share a single room, putting two - one persons’ beds in it, can be not an easy task if we do not have a lot of space. Rafa-kids thought about it.  That’s why we’ve created F & A beds. Each bed can be set apart in the room or put in different positions together. We have so much fun imagining this little corner with F&A beds in white, to show you how beautiful the sleeping - playing corner for children can be. 

Under the F bunk bed there is enough space to put a night shelf, or table, a few suitcases for personal belongings and little boxes for all the treasuries. We need them all, right?  Rafa-kids M shelf fits also perfectly next to the A teen bed. This will give an extra possibility to hang favourite jewellery, bag or softies, which your child would like to have around his/hers bed. 

Rafa-kids is known for a little yellow obsession, so that’s why you see

 it back in this cheerful and positive room.  We hope you like it as much as we do! 

Products on the pictures : 

F&A bed set Rafa-kids , storage baskets , Apple Pillow - grey , Umbrella bedding , 

S shelf and M shelf from Rafa-kids, Geometric pillows + rug - Ferm Living, Little Boxes - Hey. 

KidZinspiration and Rafa-kids at M&O in Paris

We were so happy to collaborate with KidZpiration for the January M&O in Paris.

KidZpiration is based in The Netherlands and  distributes a range of high end, design driven toys and kids lifestyle brands to a wide variety of retailers in Europe. We met Maiko (founder)  in our studio to talk about the coming fair. KidZpiration  is carrying very beautiful products for children, from brands like:  Wee Gallery, Smiling Planet, Rock&Pebble, GreenLullaby, Fabelab and others.

Like you can already see on the pictures we clicked very well with KidZpiration and our Rafa-kids R toddler beds went to Paris. Danish textiles from Fabelab were presented on our beds, in two different corners. On one of them you could see our natural finish bed and L shelf with bedding and accessories with soft colours . The other corner was black&white and on our Rafa-kids XL shelf were presented amazing little toys from Rock&Pebble. We are very pleased to share our furniture with other brands, since we believe this way we can create new, fresh and inspiring content. 

Olive Loves Alfie - London

We are very exited to receive a fresh press material from children’s store Olive Loves Alfie in London.  

9 years ago they opened their first store dedicated to kid’s world and last year they have launched a new store Olive Loves Alfie East in London's newest postcode E20. Perching on the edge of the Olympic park they have found an urban idyll. The store is run by interior design lover Ashlyn Gibson , creative director of two interior books. I presented you one of them here:  Creative childrens spaces. 

Don’t you think our Rafa-kids R toddler bed look so representative and beautiful ?   If you are in London, now is the chance to see and touch our furniture in this inspiring space. We could not be more proud. Please have a look for more details:  Olivelovesalfie. 

new WHITE at Rafa-kids

Let’s start a new year in white, clean and stylish way. 

Do you feel a new energy to organise your space, to clean it and make things work better? 

I definitely do. 

Please welcome our Rafa-kids furniture in pure white finish. Last year we introduced R toddler bed - limited edition in this colour and it was a big success. Many of our customers asked for it and that’s why we decided to gave it a try! They were so right.  The new white collection is absolutely stunning. 

F bunk bed with the A teen bed in pure white finish, is a perfect furniture set for a modern space. We designed it for children which share a single room. The younger child ( from 6 years)  can enjoy his bunk bed and the older one ( from 8 years) can have the slick A teen bed . These two beds are in adult size and can be used for many years in different configurations.  

Let’s welcome this stunning WHITE pieces into our children’s rooms.

Let’s cuddle....

After very difficult weekend and all the happenings in Paris last Friday, I though I will bring a bit of light and softness into my today post…. 

Inspired by cheerful and sunny orange colour I combined it with sober tones of grey, patterns of birds wallpaper and a graphics touch. Grey is my favourite colour and I talked about decorating with grey here : children room’s with grey. 

Instead of painting the entire wall in grey I decided to make a small head board next to the bed to make it more cosy. Delicate pattern of birds on the wallpaper brings the dreamy atmosphere in this room. I got it from Chispum  and you need to believe me, that putting a wallpaper was never so easy. It’s like a big sticker with glue and you can just put it on and easily take it off, when you are ready for something new. 

And then I wanted to add a lot off soft accessories into this Autumn toddler’s room. Blankets, pillows and soft toys, we never can have enough of them. Blablakids soft toy Cat and Unicorn are designed by Florence Wetterwald. They have such a poetic, simple and vibrant look and are knitted by Peruvian artisans. Everything is made from natural fibres of exceptional quality and making the line irresistibly soft and cuddly. I feel like to cuddly them myself. I wish I can cherish every day, what I have and give my kids a lot of extra kisses and cuddles….. 

Rafa-kids product selection, where you can find it ?   

R toddler bed in natural finish 

Shelf M from Rafa-kids new collection

Stickers planes

Wallpaper birds 

Orange wool blanket 

Standing lamp - Loods5

White knited big pillow - Loods5 

Moustache Pillow - Blablakids at Rafa-kids

Soft dolls Cat and Unicorn - Blablakids from Rafa-kids 

White chair Casalino - Tafel-design 

Woodenball Snake -  Designfuersheim