Room for siblings with F&A bed set

Industrial Touch in Children’s room

Custom designed kid’s room

Gender Neutral Children's rooms trend

Could you imagine the room of your child in a calm and neutral atmosphere, or you find it to much and a bit boring? The gender neutral children rooms are at the moment very popular, and I like it a lot. The other day, my six years old son was drawing something, and when I asked why he doesn’t use the pink color- he looked at me with this strange look, and said -  “ mom - pink is for girls! “  I was angry, as this was definitely told to him by someone at school, and I’m far from accepting it. 

Anyway, today we are escaping from colours in children’s rooms, and any generalisations what is for boys, and what for girls. Let’s enjoy these beautiful natural textures of wood, linen, cotton. I found this editorial on Zara Home and was positively surprised. Contemporary, with modern elements, kept humble and fresh. I wish to see such an inspiring children rooms more often! 

Monday inspiration - Clothes rack for children's rooms

What do you think about using clothes in children's room as decoration ? I can imagine, it is a shame to hide in the closet, this one favourite, beautiful dress of your little girl, that she waited and wanted for so long. Or maybe the dress she was wering on her first birthday ? We would like to keep this memory forever, right ?  For an older child, having clothes on a rack feels a bit like being in a store,  where you can easily reach it, see whats there and play with it. 

I hope that when we buy less, but very consciously, it would be nice to appreciate the well made, and designed pieces and give them a special place in a child's room. On the other hand, we can hide the rest of garments in a closet.  You can create such a beautiful clothes rack, from wooden sticks, for more natural look or use a standart metal adult Clothes rack. There is a plenty of options if you like the idea. Rafa-kids has also designed a beautiful L shelf with a metal rack to hang the favourite garments of your child. 

Wishing you a wonderful new week! 

Thank you for inspiration

Pictures from creative Instagram moms : 

Picture 1 - kon_tam

 2 - Stylemepretty

3- Huisengrietje

4 - Rafa-kids L shelf via Uberkid

5 - Atelier-sukha

6 - Mavendolls

7 - Vie 

8&9 -nyeartur 

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Clouds and Raindrops decoration for children's room

Let’s start the weekend in dreamy , cosy and sleepy mood….

Don’t you think that Clouds, Moon and the Raindrops are such perfect elements to decorate child’s room ?  I recently discovered, that the Danish brand Fabelab known for beautiful high quality textile products, have created in collaboration with Chispum from Spain, dreamy wall stickers. Clouds with raindrops in blue and pink. They are made with the special watercolour print designed by Anna Thomsen from Trekant Design. What do you think about the simple decoration of Moon and stars by CamCam brand from Copenhagen ? Or just a large raindrops catered from paper and hang next to the child’s bed? I’m so glad to see such a simple, calm products for the little ones. …

Thank you for the inspiration :  Fabelab - CamCam and BigImaginationDesign 

Let’s walk into the forest…..

In some parts of Europe there is already a big layer of snow, but in the Netherlands we still enjoy Autumn atmosphere. We feel so lucky to have sunny days and to see the nature changing slowly…. Few weeks ago we brought into our Rafa-kids studio a ‘nature’ vibe and created a children’s room with NEW Rafa-kids B bench. The set was part of a project called Carte Blanche which we were asked to create by our long partner/stockist in France Les Enfants du Design. I was feeling like a little girl in a candy store, since I could select product from their collection to create this room. Yeeey!!! …it is one of our favourite children’s stores carrying plenty of the best modern products for children which are on the market at the moment. 

What is the story behind the room…

 I wanted to bring into child’s room a charm of natural colours and textures. We set two corners - one with our bench next to the bed and the second is a little “ tea corner” where kids can play. Our Rafa-kids bench is such a simple and elegant furniture which can be used in many different ways. We always want to make our furniture - Playful. I hope you like the tones of mint with the contrasting dark brown textures of wood and wool. My favourites are the different kinds of baskets to hide the kids toys. They give a room a bit of a boho vibe contrasting with the modern simple furniture. I also imagine that the room, can be gender neutral and give calm and nice atmosphere to play. I hope you like it. 

To create this room we selected few of our favourite products from the Les Enfants du Design store: 

Nobodinoz - Pouf and jumping rope, Muuto - Dots , Snowpuppe lamp , Ferm Living - House shelf, Dot Mint little basket, pillow , Donna Willson - Wooly Wood plaid, Bloomingville - baskets, Blabla kids - Cloud Pillow and Mint Doudou soft doll , Chair - Oeuf NYC and white table from Flexa Play. 

Soft and cosy Liv’s room

Finally weekend…

what an intensive and busy working days behind us….

I just couldn’t wait to hide at home under some warm blanket with my coffee.  

The perfect ingredients for a cosy Autumn day for me ?  

Cosy and soft room with plenty of felt, linen and wool. 

Please welcome our Rafa-kids benches in all 4 finishes : wood, whitewash, white and dark chocolate. 

Our new family member is a perfect furniture to put next to the bed. It can become a side table to put your book,or something to draw on and play. A storage for textile, garments and all what you need around. It will look so stylish and organised. We hope you love it as much as we do! 

In Liv’s room you will find: 

Rafa kids - A teen bed in whitewash finish. 

B bench 120 cm in whitewash finish and BB bench 90cm in natural wood. 

We also have a new Linen throws and felt basket in beautiful grey and blue. 

We wish you a wonderful weekend ahead. 

Rafa-kids BB bench - InsideOut magazine - Australia

While we pull warm sweaters to welcome chilly Autumn days in Europe 

at the same time in Australia the first Spring vibes poping out. 

Do you remember my post about a favourite stylist Jessica Hanson from Australia? I adore her work since a long time and always find inspiring what she does. For the October issue of the Insideout magazine she created with Sam Mcadam-Cooper  this amazing Black Swan Ballet dancer set. 

We are over the moon to spot Rafa-kids B bench and A teen bed in this girls’ room.  I remember ones a Rafa-kids customer saying, that our furniture is elegant and light. It was so nice to hear and it came back to my mind when I saw this pictures. Sunny colours used for this set give definitely feeling of a fresh start. 

Modern and Relax girl room

Let’s have a look at this unique and well curated Girl room, which I found on Avenuelifestyle. There is nothing better than to know a personal story hidden behind such a project, which you can read on this blog post : Lolas-bedroom-before-after. I’m not sure if I can say much more about it… 

Why I like it so much ? Definitely this little reading nock, which is custom designed and made by Lola’s parents is my favourite part of the room.  Please also notice the collection of textile, starting from rug, blankets and pillows, the colours are just subtle and cosy, giving a lot of reach texture into Lola’s room. What about the little colourful baskets on the desk matching so perfect with the Maroccan rectangular rug?  They give a bit of boho vibe into this room which is so nice. A perfect, beautiful room, don’t you think ?