Monday inspiration - Rafa-kids furniture in children's rooms

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There is nothing so touching and inspiring for me than seeing Rafa-kids furniture in real homes of our customers. I thought I will show you few recent pictures for our Monday inspiration series. 

Our idea was to design a smart packaging for our furniture so we can easily ship them around the world. It is working so well now. Most of the time it takes only one week to deliver worldwide. It is so amazing that there are children sleeping in our beds in so many countries, even as far as US, Singapore or Australia.

Like you see, our furniture is easy to adopt to any modern deco. The simple design is standing out in a room without being too much. Our customers tell us, that our furniture is looking better in real than on the pictures. I think it is the matter of experiencing the quality in real. Only when you see the product you can truly appreciate how well it is made. Quality, that is what we care so much about. It is important how the furniture looks, of course, but how it is finished, packed and how it will hold for many years to come is as important too. 

Seeing pictures of kids using our beds always makes my heart bit faster….

We fill so lucky to be part of their every day life. 

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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 

Monday inspiration - blush pink with blue for children’s room

Today we are talking about unique two colour combination instead of one . The most cliché colour hues for boys and girls - PINK and BLUE. Panton selected for 2016 Rose Quartz (baby pink) and Serenity (baby blue). I find it very interesting that they decided to put together this combination. I noticed very strong movement in gender equality in fashion and secretly hope the genderless trend will start to be more present in children deco too. I believe that style should be above all this traditional perceptions of what ‘should be’ for  boys and for girls, especially if we talk colours. 

Both colours, blush pink and blue, stand strongly on their own and while also complementing each other beautifully. My favourite colour combo will be the dark blue and black along with sweet pastels. It is a brave and modern colour mix. We are not very much into blush at our own house, even though my older boy always really liked the salmon colour, close to blush. I gave him some soft pink pillows next to dark blue bedding and it is looking very nice. Haven’t heard comments about it so far, so I will advice to try this colour combo around. Very refreshing. 

Thank you for the inspiration - photo credit :  1 - 2 - 3- 4 - 5-6+7- 8- 9 -10-11

Rafa-kids Special OFFER

It doesn’t happen very often that Rafa-kids offers a special price for their furniture, 

but today is the Happy Day!

We just received a batch of Rafa-kids furniture back from the photographer, 

who was making product pictures for us. 

The beds were just taken out of the boxes for a shoot and then repacked. 

We can’t of course sell them as new from the factory, so we thought let’s make a

special deal out of it! 

Please contact us at info@rafa-kids.com  if you are interested in one of the following : 

F bunk bed , A teen bed and R toddler bed in WHITE, NATURAL or DARK CHOCOLATE, 

we also have one A teen bed in WHITEWASH. 

We will be happy to help you further! 

Monday inspiration - botanical vibe for children’s room

I’m back with our Monday’s inspiration for children’s room. I find Spring time so inspiring and  this season gives me such a good energy to change things at home. Nature is awake and the botanical trend seems just so perfect to bring also indoor. I wrote already some other post about greenery here:  Green Wall. 

Today I take inspiration form botanical prints and patterns which are such a wonderful motives to adopt in kids deco. Don’t’ you think? It doesn’t need to take a lot of time and costs much. We can put a wallpaper with floral pattern in small part of the room, or poster with floral motives, or get a bedding set and pillows with some floral details. If you have more space and patience, what about creating some real garden with your kids.  We just started a little indoor garden with my 5 years old, and he just loves it. Every day he is checking if the little zucchini and broccoli are growing. It’s not only looking great but our kids learn to take care of it and grow little nature in their surrounding. Interesting, especially for the city kids, as mine. I think this is one of the greatest trends happening since a long time…..

Thank you for the inspiration / pictures credits : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9+10 -11

Child’s room metamorphose

It doesn’t happened often that two well know Sweden’s stylists take a challenge to redesign a child’s room. Don’t you think ? Pella Hedeby interior stylist and blogger at Stilinspiration and Frida Ramstedt who runs the most read interior design blog in the country - Trendenser, took the task. You can even see movie from the metamorphose here. 

I really like the moodbord Pella Hedeby created for this room. She choose white base and then played with some contrasting elements without loosing the texture and playful accents. Before the metamorphose the room was having very dominant stripe wallpaper on entire wall and one open space in the middle to play.  

Pella and Frida created three areas in the room :  sleeping area with the freshly painted grey bed, table with chairs and then teepee corner with toys to play and hide. The striped wallpaper was taken off  and all the important elements were putted lower and grouped together in one place. We forget sometimes that children’s hight is different than adults and they experience the room from a bit different perspective. One long shelf is created to put pictures, toys and favourite belongings. The colour palette is calm and cosy.  

I wish to see much more of such a nice room makeovers from stylists who normally do not work with kids deco.