Rafa-kids - B120 Bench - Special Offer

Room for siblings with F&A bed set

Rafa-kids NEW LOOKBOOK

Custom designed kid’s room

Rafa-kids Bench at H&M

Flexible room for siblings by Rafa-kids

Contemporary toddler bedroom

It was a nice surprise to come across this modern room and spot our Rafa-kids XL shelf in it. Each time I see it in people homes I feel excited and inspired by the creativity and the personal touch. There are so many ways to use XL shelf around children’s room. This toddler bedroom belongs to a little boy called Thomas and was created by Terina Lyell from Oheightohnine. His parents asked an interior designer for a transformation of his room into a 'big boy' space. I like the contemporary look of the room with not so many elements. Sleeping corner with a toddler bed, a large shelf for books and toys, sitting corner and plenty of space to play. The color pallet is very calm with the dominant furniture in natural wood and white and a splash of dark blue here and there.  If you would like to see how the room was looking before and read more about the project, you can step by Terina's blog here. 

I wish you a nice new week! 

Let's Play with Monsters

How does the room of 6 years old look like? My son Robert, who is this age dreams about a 'BIG  BOYS' bed, as he still sleeps in his R toddler bed. He shares a room with his brother, so putting 2 F bunk beds in this space, is simply impossible. We are still in a hunt for a bigger house to make his dreams come true. 

He likes to spend time to draw, to make little notes to us, as he started to learn writing and reading, which is very fascinating! Of course he loves to Play. What about drums?  Or pillow fight, especially when they are so cool in the shape of Monsters…he is very active and he is everywhere. 

In our studio he found his perfect spot under the F bunk bed, where we put the B bench. Do you like it? We designed this bench, to fit between the ladders, and are so happy to see how great it is working  'in action'.  The space under the F bunk bed looks now so defined and different. 

And we made a MOVIE!  

We are absolutely hooked to this new tool, and hope you will like it as much as Rafa do. 

Please watch…it is so much Fun. Don’t forget to turn the music on. 

Special Thanks:

Northseadesign for letting us to use the beautiful laps from their store. 

Manufakturakd - for our Rafa-kids paper garland! 

and Monsters pillows and dots chairs are from Bloomingville mini. 

Cosy winter with Rafa-kids

Few weeks ago I was dancing from happiness in our Rafa-kids studio. We received a special delivery of NEW bench samples in all 4 different wood finishes. It was such an exciting moment!  Not only because we could see for the first time all the colours and how the benches look like, but there was also time for new pictures. 

White B bench was the first one. I imagined a cosy room, with Rafa-kids A teen bed, B bench and L shelf styled with beautiful textures of wool, felt and linen….Colours I like the most at the moment and which are so perfect for Winter season are : Blue, Grey and White. As our L shelf has a metal rod to hang favourite garments, I realised I needed some  beautiful pieces to display for the photo session. Happily we have in Rotterdam the great kids store BonBononTheBlock, where you can always find the coolest, trendy clothes.  Thank you! 

I’m so glad we managed to capture this calm, cosy mood. Just looking at it makes me so relaxed and I can simply take it all to our home for boys. The white furniture, walls and floor give such a great base for a room and to create your own individual world. I hope you also like this wonderful Grizzly carpet and baskets, which are all hand made made in Nepal, and part of Rafa-kids collection from now on. 

Stay warm….! 

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Rafa-kids at Dutch Design Week at Crioll

Do you have already plans for the up-coming weekend ? 

What about visiting Eindhoven DDW, 

which become a heart of modern Dutch design from 22 till 30th of October?  

Rafa-kids is presented at the Crioll Designshop. We are so glad to see this lovely set with R toddler bed and L shelf created especially for the event. Cute and sophisticated at the same time. Our furniture is with a great company of our favourite Danish brands : like FermLiving, LuckyBoySunday or Muuto.  As you know I’m not a big fun of pink , but this is just such a playful and modern, toddler’s corner. Thank you Crioll Designshop! You did such a wonderful work. If you are interested in any more of their products, there is a special - 10% OFF on all orders during Dutch Design Week at Crioll. 

Should we say more? 

Dutch Design Week at Crioll Designshop 

from 22 - 30th October

where ?

Bergstraat 43

5611JC Eindhoven

" Eindhoven is the design capital of the world this week,

 presenting the work and ideas of more than 2500 designers."

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 

Monday inspiration - Toddler Friendly Closet Ideas

Do your toddlers like to choose their clothes? 

or at least like the idea that they are able to take things from their closet and maybe put it back ? 

Well, I think it’s nice to stimulate independence in our children. It is not only handy for parents ( as we can have more time to dress ourself  ) but it also makes our little ones very happy and absolutely proud, that they are able to dress themselves. 

I found plenty of good ideas how to create a children friendly closet. Very important thing to start with - the hight! It will be good if all the garments are at their fingertips. In my opinion, half open and half closed closet is a perfect option. We can hide things which are not as much interesting to look at ( pyjamas, underwear , socks etc ) and expose or hang the favourite pieces. Good segregation of garments which could be named and labeled is an another step to success.  We can put stickers on the drawers or on little boxes to help our toddler to find important parts of his/her wardrobe. Currently very popular option is to create open hangers on different sort of rails ( wooden twig ) . I can only imagine ( as a mom of boys) that girls would love to expose their favourite little dresses and accessories. Wall hooks are also a very nice decorative elements to use. 

Do you have any more nice suggestions ? 

Thank you for the inspiration :  1 - 2 - 3+4 - 5 - 6 - 7- 8