ON THE WALL. WE LOVE IKEA’S BEKVÄM STATE OF THE ART A gallery wall is creatively stimulating and engaging— the perfect finishing touch for a stylish kid’s habitat. > The ideal gallery-wall can include framed prints, pretty plates and ceramics, decorative tiles, lettering and symbols, eco-friendly trophy heads, fairy lights or battery-operated marquee lights, as well as postcards stuck up with washi tape. > On a budget? Scour the Internet for free-to-use printable imagery. Think of vintage advertising or graphic, contemporary and classical works of art that would suit a child’s room. Make sure anything you print is in the public domain. > For a contemporary mood, keep the configuration unstructured. Before hanging up anything permanently, however, place the various pieces on the floor or mark out their shapes on the wall in pencil to be sure that the final result looks visually balanced. Pay particular attention to the spaces in between the artworks. IDEA DON’T SHY AWAY FROM MORE GROWN-UP FABRICS AND STRIKING PATTERNS IN A CHILD’S ROOM. THE FLO- RAL PRINT AND BLACK BACK- GROUND OF THIS UPHOL- STERED BED, FOR EXAMPLE, ADDS A TOUCH OF SOPHISTI- CATION AND WILL NOT NEED TO BE REPLACED IN LATER YEARS. THE DARK FABRIC ALSO ACTS TO VISUALLY ANCHOR THE OTHERWISE LIGHT-FILLED, PASTEL-HUED SPACE.
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