I am a monthly contributor to Everything Home Magazine. It is an online magazine where bloggers are the writers and feature spaces that catch our eye for the section we write for. I was excited when Collette, the editor asked me to write for their "Kids Spaces." I have two daughters and am always on the look out for unique ideas for their space.
I found Brittany York on Instagram and love every single picture she posts. Her home is so gorgeous!
Her kitchen is beyond charming.
She also used the hashtag #ehkids to share her unique kids space on Instagram that I featured to find kids bedrooms to write about. You can see more of Brittany's home on her Blog, Duchess of York.
When Brittany started planning her boy’s rooms she really wanted them to feel bright, fun, and just really youthful! She wanted the space to be somewhere her boys could hang out in and feel proud to call their own. She was a little more free spirited with their spaces and stepped out of her comfort zone a little bit with colors.
She said that it obviously shows in the playroom and she is so glad that she did because it’s one of her favorite rooms. I asked her if her kids had an opinion about the décor of the room and this is what she said “Neither of them had much interest in designing their rooms (too young to care, I guess) so this mama had free reins!”
Brittany’s two kids are currently sharing a bedroom so they use their 3rd bedroom as their playroom. Both rooms fill the entire square footage of their 2ndfloor. Once you walk upstairs you enter a totally different world, and it’s run by kids. She said they do confine most of their toys to their playroom.
She found that the kids were getting super distracted by toys while they were trying to get them to wind down for naptime or bedtime. Because of that she wanted their room to be free of distractions and filled with more beneficial things that helped promote quiet time, like lots and lots of books. In the playroom each toy has a place, its own basket on its own shelf.
The playroom also serves the purpose of their homeschool room, she I tries to keep it organized that way things can be found quickly and easily. Every couple of months Brittany will go through the toys while the boys are napping and fill a donation box with things they haven’t played with in a while. The boys never know they are missing and it helps keep the mass of toys they always seem to be collecting under control.
I asked Brittany what her main inspiration was for the kid space. She said it was those triangle vinyl decals from Urban Walls. She had seen them all over Instagram and Pinterest and just loved how easy and fun they were. They add that dramatic effect of an accent wall, but they don’t take the same commitment that say paint or wallpaper would.
In the playroom she planned the room around Ikea’s ABC poster that is hanging above the craft cart. She loved the colors in it. It is bright and fun and she wanted the playroom to reflect that.
It was also really important to her to have a full chalkboard wall in one of the rooms. In their previous home they had one in their kitchen and she loved to sit and doodle with the boys. She said “It was just a lot of fun for us and I was really sad to leave it behind when we moved.”
Brittany shopped Ikea and flea markets for her kids space. She scored the boy’s beds at a garage sale for $10, a little paint and they were good as new. Their bed side table, which is a vintage school desk she got at a flea market for $5. The kitchen in the playroom is from Ikea and Brittany adores it.
I asked Brittany what her son’s favorite part of their kid space was and she said it was the rocket ship tent that she bought from Land of Nodand it is actually their favorite spot in the entire house. They love curling up inside of it with a book, their iPad, or a flashlight at night. It’s ALWAYS their first and only hiding when we play hide-n-seek.
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