What should be considered when setting up a youth room?

Traditionally, a teenager’s room is set up in such a way that the teenager has everything they need to do their homework in peace and a place to retreat to for themselves and their friends. That means a desk with a chair, a bed, shelves, a wardrobe, and places to sit and sleep for guests. But that’s boring – original ideas are needed!

When a teenager’s room is set up, the boy or girl is usually between eleven and fourteen years old. That means: You and your child have a few intensive years ahead of you – but also before you set up the teenager’s room itself. Every day a possible change in taste and one or the other attack on the door included.

A good compromise between you as a parent and your son or daughter is therefore to choose color-neutral, timeless, and durable furniture for the teenage room, some of which may even be moved to your first apartment. Young people can live out their styles and taste through the design of the walls and the decoration of the youth room.

You can use a 3D room planner online or as an app to set up the youth room perfectly and to have a visual idea in advance of where which piece of furniture fits best and what is perhaps still missing. When planning, make sure that you separate the different areas of the youth room from each other. This is how you create visual order and harmony. When visualizing the furnishings of the youth room, it is also important that you record all windows and sockets correctly. Because: The desk should be on the side of the window, for example, and have at least one socket nearby. Your child also needs electricity near the bed and in the reading corner.

Setting up a youth room: 5 valuable tips

The basis of a teenager’s room is clear – but the details make the difference. Here are the most important points that you as parents should consider together with your offspring when setting up the youth room:

Tip 1: Parts of the children’s room remain

If you were already thinking about converting it into a teenager’s room when you bought the children’s room, you are now financially relieved and have one less thing to worry about. Furniture that grows with the child and is height-adjustable, such as the desk, maybe repainted or an element added. Other pieces of furniture from the children’s room could also be reused in the youth room, in the sense of sustainability – provided they can be processed and color matched.

Tip 2: Storage space, storage space, storage space

Storage space is just as important in a teenage bedroom as privacy. It is therefore advisable to pay attention to the multifunctionality of a piece of furniture. For example, a bed with drawers or an integrated pull-out guest bed. Shelves on the walls also help create storage space. If you want to prevent chaos on the shelves, you can create additional, opaque storage space for small items by placing crates or boxes in matching colors on the shelves.

Tip 3: Make room for friends

Chatting with your friends, learning, or just lazing about – is essential for the development of young people. When transforming the children’s room into a youth room, the space for friends must not be forgotten. For example, beanbags are suitable, which can be used by your offspring as a reading or study corner when their friends have gone home. If the beanbags are made of water-repellent and easy-to-clean nylon, like the models from Lazy Bags, then teenagers can even take the comfortable seating furniture with them to the terrace.

Tip 4: Furniture ideas for a small youth room

Space-saving pieces of furniture for furnishing rather small-sized youth rooms are loft beds or bunk beds. Depending on the model, they either offer space under the bed for a desk or even for a reading and relaxation zone with beanbags and small shelves with storage space for books and all sorts of odds and ends. However, if you are furnishing a smaller teenager’s room, it is generally more advisable to use cupboards with doors instead of shelves, because shelves quickly give the room a chaotic look if they are not kept in order. A wall unit with an integrated desk is also recommended for a small teenager’s room, as this allows you to get the most storage space out of the room. If there is no space for seating in the teenager’s room, a sofa bed or day bed solves the problem and offers a bed and seating area in one piece of furniture.

Tip 5: Atmospheric lighting

Apart from the room lamp, a youth room should be furnished with a desk lamp and a bedside lamp. If you don’t want to buy an extra lamp for the reading corner, one of the two can also be used as a reading lamp.

Decorate the youth room stylishly

Parents should leave the finishing touches to the design of the teenage room to their child. After all, it is about the individualization of one’s own space. Just setting the budget and standing by your son or daughter in an advisory capacity is not easy, but you should respect the development of the individual living area in the family home.

There are several ways of decorating the youth room – starting with the question: what should be on the walls? Just color? A few wall decals? Or, at least partially, a wallpaper? Murals with a 3D effect are very popular at the moment. The selection includes natural motifs such as various crystals, geometric shapes, landscapes, and floating patterns. These wallpapers have an impressive effect on a room and should therefore only be used on one wall.

But of course, a wall design does not make a safe retreat. This requires photos with friends, plants, souvenirs from trips and excursions, awards, small personal collections, lots of pillows, a few stuffed animals, and things that are needed to practice the hobby. When it comes to furnishing a youth room, in principle everything can be used as a decorative element. Provided the resident sets the scene skilfully. For example, photos look particularly good on a chain of lights with special clips. This also provides indirect lighting. Pillows should differ in size but less in color. There should be a connecting color for all pillows.

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