Cabinets are a convenient element of the storage system. It is a must to have a closet in a child's room: this will make it much easier to teach the baby to be in order. Considering that there is a huge selection on the market in terms of both design and construction of cabinets, it is easy to choose the right option for any nursery. The photo below shows practical and stylish variations of this piece of furniture.
Pictures of furniture
At the moment of visual acquaintance with such material, children learn to recognize pieces of furniture. Pronounce their names accurately. Additionally, they gain skills in comparing quantities and proportions.
Pictures on the topic of furniture for children of senior preschool age are motivating material for the development of artistic taste. They help you learn to think figuratively, describing interior items in detail.
Criteria for choosing a cabinet for a children's room
Any piece of furniture that will make up the decor of a children's room needs careful selection. When planning to purchase or make a custom cabinet for your child’s wardrobe, pay attention to the following criteria:
- furniture material must be safe for humans and the environment. Most often, experts recommend purchasing furniture made from MDF - environmentally friendly and affordable (compared to solid wood);
- furniture should be safe from the point of view of the risk of injury, so it is better to avoid facades with mirror and glass inserts in a room with children (in bedrooms for teenagers this ban can be removed), corners and bevels should be rounded;
- the closet should be functional and comfortable - it should be easy for the child to open (pull apart) the doors and pull out the drawers (it is necessary to install a limiter to prevent the storage system from falling out);
- safe and durable fittings - you should not skimp on these furniture elements, because they will be used frequently;
- the lower shelves must support the weight of the child, because a closet is not only a system for storing a wardrobe, but also a place for hiding;
- the structure must be stable (if the cabinet is built-in, then all fastenings to the walls, floor and ceiling must be as strong as possible);
- ease of operation and maintenance - surfaces from which it is easy to erase fingerprints, traces of children's art and other types of contamination;
- a design that not only fits organically into the interior of the room, but is also liked by the child himself.
Sectional pictures of furniture
Pictures of furniture for children in kindergarten can be used in cut form. To do this, the finished colorful images are divided into parts of regular/irregular geometric shape.
Starting from early preschool age, the child is able to match puzzles and put together a picture. The benefits of such activities cannot be overestimated. They contribute to the development of the following functions and abilities:
- logical and spatial thinking;
- fine motor skills, coordination of movements;
- orientation in space;
- making independent decisions;
- fantasy;
- creative skills;
- visual perception of information.
Didactic games
Pictures on the topic of furniture for children are often used as visual material for educational games. Their range is varied. Such fun is aimed at the overall development and development of the child as a person.
- “What will this be needed for?” The child needs to correctly name the piece of furniture in the picture and describe its purpose (what they do with it in everyday life, where it can be placed).
- "Find the odd one out." A radically different image is specially added to one of the groups of pictures (by purpose, location, color, size). The child is given the task of determining what is superfluous.
- "Get things in order." In front of the child is a diagram of an apartment with different rooms and chaotically laid out pictures of furniture. The goal is to arrange the furniture in its place, as is customary in real life.
- "Part of an object." In all pictures, the furniture is shown without a certain element (the back of a chair, the armrest of a chair, the leg of a sofa, etc.). Children need to point to the missing part and name it.
- "What common". The task is to find common characteristics among different furniture (elements - legs, backs, etc., or color, shape, material).
- "Find the difference." Children need to find differences in pieces of furniture similar to the previous game.
- “What is this item?” It is required to describe certain furniture with various epithets. Give it a detailed description using adjectives. You can arrange a competition between subgroups of children. The team that comes up with the most characteristics wins.
- “Put it all together.” It is necessary to assemble a piece of furniture from puzzles, an entire furnished room. If there are two identical sets of puzzles, older children can compete in the speed of completing the task.
- "Shop". A child can make a conditional purchase of a headset only if he correctly pronounces the name of the furniture in the picture.
- "Repair". In all pictures, the furniture is shown without a certain element (back, legs, seat, armrest). Children need to name the missing part, what it can be made of and what tools are needed to repair it.
- "What is this". The child needs to recognize and name the furniture based on individual parts of the set.
- "Big small". Invite the children to compare the furniture in the two pictures and determine which is larger and which is smaller.
- “Name all the pieces of furniture.” The image contains chaotically placed furniture, dishes, plants, things, etc. Children find and name only furniture.
- “How this furniture is made.” The child should reproduce the sequence of actions when making an object. To do this, you need to prepare a manual diagram that shows: the material, the manufacturing process, tools and the furniture itself.
- "In our house". The task for kids is to list all the pieces of furniture that they have at home (by room).
If you prepare a variety of pictures of furniture for children, you can come up with any didactic fun on your own. Invent your own unique gaming method of teaching and developing children.
Wardrobe options for children's wardrobe
Freestanding wardrobe
One of the simplest, most affordable and popular wardrobe options for a children's room is a free-standing module. The advantage of such a piece of furniture is its mobility. When the child grows up and the room needs reconstruction or rearrangement, the closet can be moved to another place. Among the disadvantages of non-built-in cabinets, we can only note that they, as a rule, take up more space than their built-in counterparts.
The rule “the less fittings the better” is ideal for decorating a child’s room. The fewer locks, handles, fasteners and levers, the less chance of injury. That is why models of wardrobes and chests of drawers that will be installed in children's rooms often do not have fittings on the facades - they are replaced by hand-friendly slots in the surfaces themselves. By using slots and holes instead of handles to design internal storage systems (drawers), you save space in the depth of the cabinet.
A custom-made free-standing wardrobe will fit perfectly with all the elements of the interior, but you can also find interesting design options among the ready-made solutions presented in online stores of goods and home furniture. An original choice of color or shape of the facade, unusual decor or connection to a specific theme will help create an original and attractive atmosphere for the child in his universe - the room where he spends a lot of time.
In a teenager's room, you can use larger and more laconic wardrobe options. For large storage systems, it is recommended to use light shades of design - this way, even a large-scale design will not look oppressively monumental and will not burden the image of the room.
Built-in wardrobe
Any built-in structure is the most efficient use of available space. The advantage of such cabinets is obvious - the lowest space costs and maximum space for placing items of clothing, shoes, sports equipment, toys and more. A built-in wardrobe can not only be located in a convenient niche, but also occupy a space with complex geometry that would be difficult to use for other interior items.
A closet built into a specially created or existing niche in the room is practically a pantry for storing a wardrobe. Even a shallow niche can become space to accommodate a spacious closet. Some parents prefer not to close such a built-in storage system with doors (as a last resort, use curtains). Others prefer to hang facades that will be easy for a child to open. It all depends on the age of the child and the amount of free space in front of the closet (for unhindered opening of the doors).
If you decide to use doors to close a built-in closet, then consider using interior door designs. If the front of the cabinet and the door of the room look the same, this brings balance and harmony to the interior.
For a large built-in wardrobe, you can use doors designed according to the accordion principle. Opening such a structure will require half the space than conventional hinged facades. Using slatted inserts in cabinet doors will allow air to circulate within the storage system.
An excellent solution for a child’s room is a wardrobe with built-in lighting. As a rule, a sensor inside the cabinet is triggered to open the doors, and the backlight turns on automatically. At any time of the day, in any room lighting, you can quickly and easily find the thing you need.
In order to make optimal use of the available space in the children's room, storage systems for wardrobes and more can be built “around the bed”. A pair of symmetrical cabinets are installed on either side of the headboard. Considering that structures are most often located from ceiling to floor, in the upper part it would be reasonable to connect two modules with a mezzanine or an open shelf.
Another way to save space in a children's room is to build a closet around the doorway. Shallow storage systems literally frame the door, creating a spacious complex with shelves and drawers, rods and cells.
A built-in wardrobe is the best option for using the useful space of a child’s room. Situated from the ceiling to the floor, the closet is a spacious storage system that will fit not only your child’s entire wardrobe, but also bedding, sports equipment and much more. Sliding doors allow you to install a wardrobe close to other pieces of furniture, thereby saving precious meters in a small room.
One of the innovations in the production of furniture for children's rooms is the use of black magnetic film for making facades. The child will be able to draw with crayons on a dark surface, attach their drawings, photos and crafts with magnets. Ample storage turns into a creative hub.
There are many ways to decorate the facades of modern cabinets - from the most expensive photo printing and laser engraving to affordable stickers. Such stickers can match the theme of the children's room and depict your favorite characters. Another advantage is that after time, if you get tired of the decor, you can get rid of it without damaging the surfaces of the facades.
If we talk about filling the cabinet, which will serve as a storage system in the children's room, then no special design ideas are required in this case. Hanging rods must be placed at a height “with a margin”, taking into account that the child will grow, which means that the clothes will take up more space in length. At the bottom of the closet, at the height of the child, it is necessary to place wardrobe items needed on a daily basis. Drawers and containers of various modifications (fabric, wicker or plastic) will help organize order in a children's closet.
Corner cupboard
Corner modification storage systems can be of two types - built-in and non-built-in. Each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. A ready-made solution for a corner cabinet, as a rule, is cheaper than a custom-made one, but the latter most closely matches the needs of a particular room and fits perfectly into its dimensions.
A corner wardrobe in a child’s room is a storage system that allows you to create the maximum amount of space for a wardrobe, while occupying the minimum possible amount of square meters. Corner designs allow you to make the most efficient use of space into which it is not easy to fit other furnishings - the corner of the room.
Wardrobe – part of the “loft bed” structure
A loft bed is one of the most popular options for organizing a sleeping space in a child’s room. This design allows you to save useful space in the room, which is very important for small-sized dwellings. The sleeping place is located at a certain height in relation to the floor, and the entire space under it can be used to organize storage systems or space for activities and creativity.
Another way to create storage and sleeping systems is to make functional pieces of furniture in an ensemble. A wardrobe can be part of a furniture block containing a bed, a workplace (usually a console) and other types of storage systems (chest of drawers, open shelves, mezzanines).
