If housing conditions permit, it is rare that a family refuses to make a child a separate nursery. Cozy, beautiful, filled with bright colors and toys ... Stop! While the flight of fantasy did not take us to the sky-high distances, it is worthwhile to ponder on the topic "What should be the children's room?" And what from what seems to us "typically childish", it is better not to settle in this haven of children's dreams and games?
Drawing walls, drawing windows
Before you start the arrangement and start the repair work, it is advisable to draw the children's project. Even if the artist of you is no. Take a sheet of paper and, trying to observe the proportions, schematically depict the room in which your baby will live. As experience shows, "pregnant" hormones play the same unfortunate role in this business as bad taste.Many times it happens that the expectant mother, being in a joyful anticipation from the upcoming family replenishment, thinks up something that then, after birth of the baby, it turns out to be completely inconvenient, impractical and unnecessary.You can avoid this by drawing a children's project under the watchful eye of a sensible dad.
You need to consider the following:
- Children should be light, but not white and brand;
- it should be beautiful, cozy, but everything is simple enough.
In other words, ruffles and canopies made of fabric - it looks very nice in the photos from the magazine, but in fact it gives so much trouble that no beauty justifies them. All materials that you will use in the nursery should ideally be natural and easy to wash, because the main motto of this room is "Cleanliness in spite of everything" for a long time! Despite the fact that children are used to doing many amazing things: regurgitate, turn over the contents pots on the floor, draw on wallpaper, smear food on furniture, crawl, carefully pushing everything into the little mouth, including dust, crumbs, toy parts ...
Avoid this in one way - clean as often as possible, without leaving even a hint of dirt. And the sooner it will be possible to achieve this, the less you will have occasions to curse the day when you came up with a touching furniture with monograms in your nursery or a trendy open shelving for books. So, going back to the topic of repair, let's sum up. We need the light in the nursery (we choose wallpaper or paint for walls of light, warm colors), it is spacious (do not clutter children's furniture), heat (we put new windows, which do not blow, and batteries - preferably with the ability to adjust the temperature in room).
And again about furniture
Let's try to learn how to properly design a children's room, because choosing furniture for a nursery, we are, of course, based on the age and needs of its future occupant. The easiest way with the newborns is for them, whatever they put, everything is fine. As a rule, and is on his "legal square" the baby of the first months of life is not so much.He is always with his mother - on the arms and sometimes sleeps in the parent's bed, closer to her.
But when the crumb starts to independently master the space of the apartment, you will understand how correct your decision to purchase furniture was.
It is advisable to choose simple light furniture, without a lot of unnecessary details in the form of the monograms and "zagogulins" mentioned above, which will collect dust, if it is intended to put books in the room, it is desirable that they be few (not a place in the children's book libraries) and ideally - put them under the glass, so they will collect less dust, otherwise you will have to vacuum it weekly or wipe every book with a damp rag.
A captious attitude to furniture is also due to the fact that when the baby starts to move uncertainly on his own two, he runs the risk of injuring himself on everything tough, sharp. Therefore it is desirable, that in a nursery there were less corners, prefer furniture with the rounded, soft contours. It is important that the furniture itself is quality - all surfaces are well-processed, smooth, without hooks, otherwise scratch-free and wound on small handles can not be avoided. It is worth paying attention to what the furniture is covered (if it is a wooden, lacquered or colorful coating). Take into account that the baby will not only touch his bedside tables, a table and a crib, but also try them on the teeth. And it is very desirable that at the same time in his mouth are not pieces of varnish or paint.
When a child grows up, the question becomes the organization of his workplace - where he can read, paint, play. The closer the first school bell, the more parents think about the fact that the crumb needs a desk and a comfortable chair.
Very popular is the multi-story cabinet furniture, when at the top, "on the second floor", at the crumb's bed, under it, "on the first", a table, a locker for things and sometimes even a "house for games." "Second floor" was safe - the forester is equipped with a handrail. Imagine that the baby can go down on it, for example, in the middle of the night, half-asleep, going to the toilet. Will he not fall? And how safe are the restrictive handrails designed to protect the tossing crumb from falling? By the way, the two-tier version is more suitable for a large nursery, in a small one, it simply "eats" the entire space of the room.
Purely pure
Why is cleanliness in the nursery so important? Above it has already been said about the ability of inquisitive youngsters to send everything into the mouth for research. But not only in this matter. Our babies are more sensitive mucous than adults. This means that if the room is stuffy and dusty, then the mucous spouts of the toddlers dry up, the crusts that prevent breathing are formed in the nose. The trouble is also that the parched mucous loses much in its protective properties, which means that the harmful bacteria and viruses feel more comfortable, and the colds stick together one by one. And it turns out a vicious circle: the kid is sick, the parents are frightened and tighten the pane more tightly, saving the crumb from the slightest draft, as a result the air in the nursery becomes even drier, and the child continues to ache. This will not work!
Therefore, you can not do without daily cleaning. Desirable wet. Does this seem tiring? In fact, if you do this all the time, cleaning will take you a maximum of 15 minutes. Do you want to facilitate the process? Get rid of children from such "dust collectors", such as carpets, soft toys, books. "Then you should all this riches be vacuumed and periodically sent to the wash.Curtains try to wash at least once a month. Hang in the children's thermometer and hygrometer (device for determine the humidity of the air), often ventilate.
Cleaning rules apply not only to the nursery, but to the entire apartment as a whole. After all, your little researcher is not limited only to his room. Reduce the amount of dust can be using some tweaks: remove books under the glass on the shelves, reduce the number of carpets in the apartment, and those that are, clean up often, clean upholstered furniture, not only with the pollution, but also preventively. To cope with these tasks you will help various household appliances. Maintain a normal humidity under the power of a good air humidifier, monitor the absence of dust - a modern vacuum cleaner, remove dirt - an arsenal of rags, mops and detergents.
Particularly urgent is the question of cleaning, if there is an allergic baby in the house. Here it is necessary to unfold a real battle against dust. The situation becomes even more complicated by the fact that aggressive detergents can not be used, as a rule. Cleaning should be delicate, but high-quality. In addition, in the presence of allergies in the house is categorically abandon carpets and soft toys, give preference to bed linen from natural fabrics, and pillows and blankets - from synthetic hypoallergenic materials.