Your child has grown, it is time to turn the pink baby of a little princess into a cozy room for a teenage girl. The adolescent period is a difficult stage, a serious physiological restructuring of the body occurs, and psychological stability is slowly forming. It is almost impossible to please a girl of this age (12-14 years old), today they like one, tomorrow another, so try to go around the "underwater reefs". When discussing the design of a teenage room for a girl, try to avoid ready-made solutions, invite your daughter to a dialogue, allow the teenager to become the chief designer of the project.
Style selection is a crucial step
View interior magazines together, select your favorite illustrations, identify financial opportunities, make a plan of work. According to your character and hobbies, try to interest your daughter in eclecticism, minimalism, country style or chebbi-chic. Maybe a child likes to travel, wants to decorate the space with interior details reminiscent of Greece, Spain, Scandinavian countries? Creating a teenage interior is a great game, an opportunity for family members to get to know each other better. It is better to drop the gloomy seriousness, treat the process with humor. Designing a room for a teenage girl together is fun and interesting. Solving this problem, there is no need to strictly follow the style canons, it is more important to get a room where your girl will be comfortable learning lessons, relaxing, talking with her mother and her friends.
Avoid difficult decors, "television" design: published interior projects take into account the interests of other children. Paste the wall surface wallpaper for painting. Daughter wants green, purple, orange walls? Agree Let the choice of shades seem wild - the look of a teenager is very different from the vision of an adult. Perhaps a bright color burst better expresses the internal state.
If the child doesn’t like the color, use the Tom Sawyer method. Cover the floor, window with the film, glue the ceiling-wall and the floor plinth with a wide masking tape. Invite a company of friends to your daughter, hand them paint cans, rollers, protective clothing, close the door. The room will be transformed in a few hours. Refreshment after work required.
Zonal division of the room
Making a living space for a teenage girl is more of a psychological challenge than a designer fantasy. Parents will have to arm themselves with the knowledge of adolescent psychology, designing the interior of a grown-up daughter's room.
Divide the room into zones: wakefulness, training sessions, rest. Give the center of the room, the area near the window under the active space, provide a private character to the corner of sleep.
Think carefully about the lighting project. It is necessary to plan at least three groups of fixtures:
- top;
- working;
- bedside
Overhead lighting is preferable to issue ceiling lights, flat shades. The volume chandelier is possible when creating an interior of a certain style (classic, Provence, modern).
Carefully calculate your security settings: dancing, playing, gymnastic exercises, trying to remove a sweater (especially if your daughter has grown and the ceiling height remains the same) can cause the chandelier to fall: the ceiling will be broken, the child will be frightened, wounded.
As a source of light in the working area, it is better to use table lamps on brackets. Such a lamp provides sufficiently strong illumination, can move back and forth, and is adjustable in height. Lamps of this type are easy to select, considering the style decision of the room.
Lighting a bedside area is not a night light for a little girl who is afraid of the dark. Requires a full bright lamp that allows you to read books, review magazines, make diary entries. The switch button is located at a distance of 40-50 cm.
Main items of furniture
The main rule of the design of children's interior, regardless of age, is not to clutter the space. Children must move freely, so place only necessary items here.
Provide a comfortable workplace near a source of natural light. If the training table is adjacent to the longitudinal wall, pay attention that the sunlight must fall on the left. Transparent one-legged masterpiece of design looks attractive, but inferior to the functionality of the desk. Roll-out or stationary bollards, lockable drawers are capable of storing school trivia, diaries, little “sekretiki”.
Consider the length of the outstretched arm near the table, plan open shelves or racks with doors. From there it is easy to get a textbook, a necessary notebook, a contour map, and exhibits of collections and sports awards will be perfectly located here.
An important piece of furniture is a dedicated wardrobe compartment, a wardrobe, a tall wardrobe, where you can hang outfits. Nearby you need a large mirror. A teenage girl of 12-15 years old pays a lot of time to her appearance, it is important to take this into account when planning the design of the room of the future girl. In the presence of a spacious, convenient storage, it is easier to agree on the implementation of the rule "Things do not roll on a chair or bed, they are put in a closet."
Be sure to provide a full bed in the bedroom, avoid the option of a folding sofa. Make life easier for your daughter: modern children are very tired (school lessons, workouts, music, art classes), so they are often physically unable to make out the bed.
The choice of hobbies of girls 12-14 years of age dictates the placement of additional furnishings that can make the projected space more comfortable:
- fashion, its own appearance (for most teenage girls) - a dressing table (all adults are completely against it, but decorative cosmetics, lacquer, jewelry will appear, let them be kept inside the boxes);
- sport, fitness - a corner for workouts, morning exercises, yoga classes;
- in-depth study of biology, chemistry - an enlarged working surface (experiments, herbaria, drawings);
- music is a musical instrument, a rack (notes, records, discs);
- painting - easel, shelves of complex volume (paints, brushes, paper, albums of picture reproductions).
How to please a teenager?
In addition to the main overall furniture, decorating the room of a teenage girl of 13-15 years in a modern style, it is possible to use some decorating finds that will make the interior more functional, emphasize the respect of adults for their new life span of the daughter.
- Cork (magnetic) board, where it is convenient to attach the necessary pieces of paper, little notes, pictures, lesson schedule, all sorts of trivia, or a surface painted with black slate paint. It should be placed near the desktop, slightly shifting the line of sight.
- Lack of heavy multilayer curtains. Window opening is better to draw light curtains, carrying only aesthetic value. The blackout function will be perfectly performed by roller blinds, the child will simply create the effect of being closed from prying eyes, just pull the cord of the chain mechanism.
- When going to the company of girls, you should provide a large number of places where you can stay. Use bean bags, volumetric decorative pillows (soft things after gatherings are easy to put in the pantry), padded stools, a narrow chest upholstered with soft material is suitable - a real treasure of girl "treasures".
- Place a folding tray table near the head of the bed. Lightweight construction is useful when you need to put a book, phone, put a glass of milk, a plate of cookies or a starry night light.
- Offer to hang outside the door signs "the path is free" and "brick". Your daughter is almost grown, has the right to their own free time, individual lessons. Do not violate the boundaries of children's permanent parental control. Let a teenager at least partially control his world, feel the consent of adults to take into account his mood.
Leave the wall free
Leave one wall of the room free, so that a girl of 12 - 14 years old will consider the design, following her own preferences. Let him hang posters, posters, posters, authoring photographs (if he is fond of fixing the moments of real life), drawings, collages that reveal the individuality of a teenager. An honorary board, sports awards, a schedule of achievements, a geographic map with flags marking family vacation routes, and maybe a dream trip are echoes of the inner world of a maturing person, the opportunity for parents to start an interesting conversation aimed at maintaining the necessary emotional contact with a teenager.
Order prints of large-format photos, modular pictures, using photo tours, interesting family trips.
Empty wall gives a huge scope to the imagination, gives rise to unrestrained fantasies. A good way to strengthen the integrity of the family, a design method that takes into account the conscious desire of parents to know their own child better, is to offer their 16-year-old daughter to paint a free wall on their own. The picture figuratively expresses the thoughts that excite the adolescent, will provide an opportunity to improve family understanding. Let him draw one, invite friends. The delight that inspires children when they feel that they are creators is inexpressible. A bonus for parental courage girl will receive a significant increase in status in the eyes of peers!
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