Rooms for Little Ones
DIY Vintage Kids Room
Everyone is talking about how to do more with less in these compromised economic times. Elle Décoration has a feature on a family home where just about everything is second-hand or DIY — from this home-built loft bed with its paint-splattered ladder to modest vintage accessories made from flea market finds, like a DIY mobile made from old toys…
In this kids room, a vintage twin school desk and blackboard lend a retro charm, as do old alphabet charts strung up nonchalantly on the wall.
And anyone could copy this idea: an old busted wire lampshade carcass strung up with vintage (or outgrown) toys.
[adapted from Elle Décoration (source: Ohdeedoh in Europe – Paris)]
The following represent examples of DIY rooms submitted by proud parents of their own creations:
From the minds of Martha Stewart:
Two images from Domino magazine:
