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Cool Kid's Room
Filled with great advice on how to transform a child's room into an aesthetically pleasing space, this unique decorating book combines two hundred photographs with eye-catching graphics to illustrate ideas concocted by Parisian artists and designers for their own children. Original.
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2004
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April 23, 2012
I've been reading a lot of books on decorating kids' rooms recently, and this is the only one that I like. According to the American books, a child's room should have expensive furniture, a theme that permeates every inch of space, a wall mural that makes the child think he or she lives in a fairy castle/construction site/cave under the sea/cabin in the woods, etc., and a color scheme so strong that even the picture books on the shelf must adhere to it.
This book, which features real kids' rooms from homes in Paris (all the parents are artists or designers), emphasizes a more casual and spare look. It includes close-up images of children's drawings (hung with duct tape or clothespins), a random-looking group of baskets arranged by a child in the corner of her floor, and a collection of shoes that forms a path through a teenager's room (clearly that girl is proud of her shoes). I especially love the charming mishmashes of furnishings found in flea markets, the abundance of kids' own art on the walls, the mostly bare floors except for fluffy round rugs, and lots of pegs on walls where kids can decide what they want to hang (purses, necklaces, dress-up clothes, etc.).
This book, which features real kids' rooms from homes in Paris (all the parents are artists or designers), emphasizes a more casual and spare look. It includes close-up images of children's drawings (hung with duct tape or clothespins), a random-looking group of baskets arranged by a child in the corner of her floor, and a collection of shoes that forms a path through a teenager's room (clearly that girl is proud of her shoes). I especially love the charming mishmashes of furnishings found in flea markets, the abundance of kids' own art on the walls, the mostly bare floors except for fluffy round rugs, and lots of pegs on walls where kids can decide what they want to hang (purses, necklaces, dress-up clothes, etc.).
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