Custom designed kid’s room in Australia

Sloane’s modern room

Today I would like to invite you to discover a little girl’s room in Utah, US. Her name is Sloane and she turned 4 few months ago. Her mom’s name is Becky Kimball , happy mama of tree, lifestyle photographer and an occasional blogger. As you can see , she has an aye for a sleek modern furniture designs. Rafa-kids F bunk bed took a central role in the space with very cool accessories and smaller furniture around.  A perfect contemporary clean look of a child’a space! We really like the contrasting green rug, different textures and colours together. If you have a smaller room and limited space a loft bed will create an extra space underneath to play. We are so happy to see this little brave girl climbing her new bed and taking the adventure to sleep so high. That’s so cool, isn’t it? 

We are glad to see this modern room featured in the Littlepeanutmagazine winter issue. 

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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Kids space at vtwdbeurs 2016

Last Friday we went to look for inspiration at the biggest Design and Interior Fair in The Netherlands called - VT wonen&design Beurs taking place in Amsterdam. We were so exited to discover, that the Dutch magazine vtwonen created space for kids in their pavilion. It was not just one little room…it was large and impressive open space.  The main element was a built platform where child can sleep and play and on the other side there was a separate area for working. My favourite element was definitely the built platform with the drawers underneath for all the toys and also a large wardrobe. Open shelves gave chance to expose all little treasures. Just perfect. I really liked the colours combo kept in this era. Grey was contrasted and refreshed with orange, which gave cosy and warm feeling. The working area was dark and calm, with a galaxy theme. Kids’ house was filled with plenty of vintage finds, industrial furniture like chairs or shelves, which made this space look so personal. Such a wonderful atmosphere….

and we spotted Rafa-kids XO game and X stool in black in there!  

Unfortunately on the entire fair it was not much more inspiration for children except this pavilion….I will show you more from the fair shortly. 

Happy weekend my dear readers. 

NEW B bench by Rafa-kids

Please welcome our new Rafa-kids members :

 B bench and BB bench. We couldn't wait any longer to show it to you! 

We wanted to create new furniture which would be good to use under our F bunk bed. Fitting exactly between the ladder legs it is creating a new siting/reading possibility for your child. That’s not all of course! Free standing bench can be used by our toddlers in many different ways. Racing, building, lying or rolling…kids love to play on the floor, don't they?  

Imagine it as a table in the middle of a room. Your child can draw on it or use it for other favourite activities. Under the bench there is space to put baskets, boxes or little suitcase.  It is of course easy to sit, and try to put your little shoes on. Or climb it to grab something from above. The bench can be used by older kids too. We see it as a side table next to A90 or A120 teen beds, just perfect to put magazines, books or clothes.

We have two models : with or without the backrest and two lengths of 90cm or 120cm 

and it is possible to use the benches with all of our furniture.

Simple design of this bench, makes this furniture perfect to use from early years into adultness.

We are in the production phase, so the new benches are going to be available in September. 

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. 

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. 

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.