11 Kids' Beds Built in Dreamland
Encourage kids' journeys to a world of imagination with beds shaped like racecars, boats, a royal nook and much more
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I got into design via Landscape Architecture, which I studied at the University of Virginia. I've been writing about design online for quite a few years over at Hatch: The Design Public Blog.
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It's often tough to get kids to go to bed. Make bedtime more enticing with a canopy fit for a princess, a tucked-away bunk bed that feels like a secret fort or a bed wrapped in a playhouse. The first time I saw a really fun kids' bed was in the 1980s, on the show Silver Spoons, starring a very young Ricky Schroder and Jason Bateman. Little Ricky's bed was a white racecar, and every kid wanted one (we also wanted that train he rode around the manse). Today the racecars have been upgraded to high-end Ferrari models, and other thematic beds have followed suit, from boats to wrestling rings. See if you can find one that might ease your time-for-bed struggles.
A small car is a great transitional bed between crib and big-boy bed (perhaps a future Ferrari). I am sounding sexist; of course a car can inspire your little Danica Patrick or Lella Lombardi wannabes too.
This also can serve as a comfy playroom reading nook.
This also can serve as a comfy playroom reading nook.
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| Have fun with the bed and let it inspire the rest of the room. In this case, the car is parked in swinging London. |
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| An overnight pit stop here, with a hideaway loft overhead, has all the fun of a motor speedway. |
| A wall mural is a simpler way to put hot rods into context. Let you child count down the years until that driver's test with a mural of your hometown (in this case, Atlanta). |
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| A wrestling ring bed is a little WWE fan's dream come true. However, single ladies, if you meet a grown man with a bed like this, recognize that it's a major red flag! |
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| If your child is more of the yacht-set type than the Andretti type, a boat-shaped bed may be more to his or her liking. |
Canopy beds were invented to keep out cold drafts hundreds of years ago, and royalty enjoyed them. Today they are still fit for a little princess.
by yo-yo.co.il
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While kids need a ladder to scale their way up to raised beds, they can have more fun on the way down with a slide.
Nautical style can give bunk beds a boat-cabin feel; a porthole window and marine lights add to the look.
by Slifer Designs
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Bunk beds can take on all kinds of structures. Secret treehouse fort meets sleepy time in these tucked-away bunk beds.
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| You can work a cozy nook for a bed into all kinds of fun kiddo room designs. In this case, a bed is part of a wonderful indoor playhouse. More: Fantasy Kids' Rooms 14 Bedrooms That Grow With Kids For the Kids: Secret Forts Indoors |
Ideabook published on July 19, 2012.
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Thanks for article Becky! Thoroughly enjoyable read.
marcie
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