Outdoor Bedrooms for Kids

May 1st, 2008

Turning your childs room into an artificial outdoor space makes for a unique decorating idea! Plus, surrounding them with reminders of the outdoors and items to climb, hang, swing or slide on make for tons of fun. 

Here is a video of our youngest taking advantage of the furniture in her brothers’ room. The climbing wall was easy to build. I went to the lumber yard and got a board cut to size and then painted it and mounted some climbing holds with bolts. I drilled some holes on the sides and zip-tied it to the ladder on the bunkbed. There is a slide on the other end, making for a circle of fun.  

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Another fun idea is an indoor swing…if there’s room that is. I’ve seen some fun one’s like this at IKEA

 

Expandable tunnels are such a blast too!  Plus, they’re an easy clean-up item and can fit in tiny spaces. Warning: This item looks so fun parents will be tempted to play inside and possibly get stuck! No, I’m not talking from experience… ;)

Anyone have any other decorating ideas to post on Nature For Kids?


One Response to “Outdoor Bedrooms for Kids”

  1. kris on May 2, 2008 2:27 am

    Ha! Awesome ladder for the bunkbed. I’ve seen climbing grip ladders for outdoor swing sets and playhouses, but I’ve never seen one on a bunkbed. Your daughter looked superstoked.

    Lissa and Rosie met me at the climbing gym today for lunch. I tried to get Rose onto the wall, but she didn’t really get the concept. Maybe she needs to learn to walk first.

    It’s not necessarily a decorating idea for kids, but I’ve been working on wallpapering a small wall in my home office with USGS 7.5-minute topographic maps. I’m buying most of the Wasatch Range, and cutting off the borders around the map, so I’ll end up with a giant map of the mountains just outside my door.

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