Designed Calm kids' rooms

A storybook kids' room, one corner at a time

A trunk where the costumes live. A table at just the right height for drawing. A mushroom stool, a story-time blanket and a cat who keeps the night-light. Each corner starts with one good piece.

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The dress-up corner

A black vintage trunk bench with brass buckles, open and overflowing with a blush tulle skirt, a plum velvet cape and fairy wings, a gold crown on its lid, a knit bunny in a crown in the open drawer, and costumes on a peg rail beside a round mirror with little lights.

The dress-up trunk

A special trunk where the costumes live

Give dress-up its own backstage. A vintage trunk bench holds the tulle, capes and wings under the lid, with stockings and wands in the drawers. Add a low mirror and a peg rail, and getting dressed becomes an occasion.

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A small child seen from behind, wearing fairy wings and a gold crown, kneeling at an open black trunk and lifting out a plum velvet cape, with a knit bunny in a party hat sitting on the trunk and costumes hanging above.

Choosing today's costume

After Halloween, the costumes keep going

Don't pack the costumes away on November 1. Keep them in the trunk where little hands can reach, and they turn into a year of pretend play.

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Corners for making and reading

A live-edge cedar table on black hairpin legs used as a child's drawing table on a moss-green rug, with a small child seen from behind drawing toadstools and a fox, a felt hedgehog on the table, and three stuffed animals on a wall ledge.

The woodland drawing table

A coffee table at exactly kid height

At 16 inches high, a live-edge cedar coffee table makes a lovely drawing table. Add two floor cushions and a cup of pencils. It will still be a coffee table when they've outgrown it.

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A thick ivory ribbed faux fur blanket draped over a child's rattan armchair, with a knit bunny tucked in and an open picture book on top, and a knit fox and a felt owl sitting on a wall ledge above.

The story-time nook

The softest blanket in the house

One very plush blanket turns a small chair into the place everyone wants to read. This one is furry on both sides, washes in the machine and comes in a baby size too.

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A bamboo storage bench with a cream cushion and three fabric drawers tagged 1, 2 and 3, holding little shoes, toys and folded sweaters, with a knit bunny on the cushion wearing one yellow rain boot.

The 1-2-3 bench

One for shoes, two for toys, three for clothes

Three drawers, three jobs. Number the handles and tidy-up turns into counting: shoes in one, toys in two, clothes in three. The cushion on top is for putting on boots.

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The woodland room

A stained-glass lamp with a black cat's face glowing at dusk on a cedar mushroom stool beside a child's bed, with a knit black cat toy looking up at it and a felt moon with a sleeping mouse on the wall.

The night-light

The black cat who keeps the lamp on

A little stained-glass lamp with a cat's face gives a soft, warm light for bedtime stories. Here it sits on a cedar mushroom stool.

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A golden cedar mushroom-shaped stool used as a bedside table next to a low wooden bed, holding a small mushroom lamp and a book with a felt fox asleep on it, against a sage wall.

The bedside toadstool

A real cedar mushroom by the bed

Each stool is cut from one piece of cedar root, so no two are alike. At 14 inches it's the right height beside a low bed, and it works as a seat for getting socks on.

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A cedar mushroom stool set as a tiny tea table with acorn-cap cups and a small teapot on a moss-green rug, with a knit bunny and a felt hedgehog sitting on linen cushions.

The woodland tea party

A tiny table for very small guests

The same stool makes a tea table for bunnies and hedgehogs. Acorn caps for cups, a jar of leaves, two cushions, and the party is set.

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Two live-edge cedar corner shelves in a sage corner holding books, a felt toadstool, a jar of acorns and a felt squirrel, above a cedar mushroom stool with a basket of pinecones and a tiny fairy door at the baseboard.

The woodland corner

Two little shelves and a fairy door

Hang a pair of live-edge cedar shelves low in a corner for treasures: acorns, a few books, a felt squirrel. A tiny fairy door at the baseboard is the part they'll show every visitor.

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