Kids' rooms often tread transitionary territory when it comes to modern design. What might be good for a five-month-old may not work well to when he or she is five years old. The residents of these seven houses found ways to accommodate their growing broods while still maintaining their unique aesthetic sensibilities (ie. not succumbing to a toy-strewn existence). With clever space-efficient structures that subdivide rooms to ample storage that makes it easy for kids to clean up after themselves to bright textiles that can easily be swaped out when the wee one no longer likes them, there's no shortage of ingeneuity in the slideshow that follows, a follow-up to our popular round-up from 2009.
In a former fishermen’s cottage outside Copenhagen, Peter Østergaard and Åsa Olofsson have carved out a cozy, light-filled home. A small bed for their daughter Maja, 6, is tucked under the eaves in the renovated attic. Though it’s a tight fit for the family of four it’s not yet cramped, and for a while longer should fulfill Olofsson’s original fantasy: “a house where we could live close together but not on top of each other.”
Photo by Jonas Bjerre-Polsen.
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