Rooms
to Grow In : Little Folk Art's Great Rooms for Babies, Kids, and Teens by Daryn Eller, Susan Salzman
Book Description: The best children’s rooms are so much more than
just a place to sleep–they provide a comfortable space for play and study,
offer privacy when it’s needed, and encourage creativity or just quiet
contemplation. A child’s room should also express the personality of
its occupant, or occupants, in a way that celebrates their unique interests
and talents.
For more than a decade Susan Salzman’s Los Angeles custom furniture
design firm, Little Folk Art, has been providing furniture, accessories,
and design consultations for some of the freshest children’s rooms and
play spaces around. Her fanciful room designs delight not only their young
occupants, but their parents as well, with bold, unexpected colors and
motifs that are whimsical but never cloying. These are rooms with an attitude,
as individual as the kids who inhabit them. Design cues come from sources
as diverse as a child’s extensive dinosaur collection, a favorite picture
book, a vintage fabric, or an antique baseball. Each room is designed to
grow and evolve as the needs and interests of the child do–without requiring
an exhaustive overhaul.
In Rooms to Grow In Susan Salzman also addresses some of the most common
challenges parents face in furnishing a child’s room, from maximizing
storage in order to minimize clutter and mess to carving individual sanctuaries
out of a shared room and outfitting an infant’s room on a budget. She
offers insights on creating playrooms the whole family will want to enjoy,
and explains how to make the transition from nursery to toddler’s space
with just a few key changes.
Full of fresh ideas that will be at home with any decor or design direction,
Rooms to Grow In is a much-needed resource for parents who don’t want
to compromise their own good taste while indulging their child’s.
Hardcover from Clarkson Potter
Book Published: 13 November, 2001
Bedrooms
for Cool Kids by Creative Publishing International, The Editors of Creative Publishing
international
Paperback from Creative Publishing International
Book Published: June, 2002
