Preschoolers are realprincesses. Fragile, gentle and a little eccentric. They love teddy bears, games and lace dresses. Today, using a real example, we will show how you can decorate a room for such a lady. “Tenderness” is what Tatyana Aprelskaya, the creator of this children’s room, called it. She, like no one else, knows what little girls want, because she is a mother of 7 charming little girls. In the children’s room that we are looking at today, the designer created a light and slightly vanilla atmosphere for the 6-year-old princess. She told us about the techniques used for this in a short interview. Tatyana Aprelskaya In 1997, she completed interior design courses. Since 1998, she has been regularly published in the magazines “Ideas for Your Home”, “Modern Home” and other publications. She is actively involved in creating design projects and implementing them. She has created a number of unique developments for low-income families with many children, as well as for her 7 daughters. She has achieved her greatest success in the field of redevelopment. In 2006, she graduated from the Sholokhov Moscow State Pedagogical University (specializing in graphic artist). At the moment, she has over 1000 projects, both completed and sketched. Creative credo: "Not a single square centimeter of useless space!" — Tatyana, what is the footage of the designed children's room? — On the floor - 15 sq. m. Plus 3 sq. m - a mezzanine sleeping area. — Who was it created for? — The customers of this project are an intelligent family with 2 daughters. This room was intended for a 6-year-old girl, cheerful and romantic. — What were the wishes of the customers? — The family had lived in rented apartments for a long time, and all its members were tired of the cramped conditions and ordinariness. Therefore, when they acquired a spacious apartment, their natural desire was to allocate a separate room for each person and fill all the rooms with coziness and unique individuality.
— What style did you choose for the design?this room? — The customers, leafing through the magazine "Ideas for Your Home", saw my publication "Country for a City Dweller". They liked the style of a country house, so they turned to me with a similar order. But, since there were girls growing up in the family, I decided to soften the style a little and replaced country with Provence. — What colors predominate in the nursery? — If country is characterized by heavy brown beams, then Provence is wood painted in light shades. All the wooden elements of this room, beams, doors, furniture are a delicate cream color. The walls are lavender. And fuchsia-colored accessories were used as active accents. — Tell us about the furniture. — In the room, as in the whole apartment, there is no store-bought furniture, except for chairs. We made everything ourselves. The table, bed, wardrobe doors, loft bed decking and railings, staircase steps and shelves are made of solid pine, painted and varnished.
— How did you work with textiles and decor?— I selected textiles to match the furniture. I accidentally came across a fabric with cats playing with a ball of yarn and couldn’t pass it by! I sewed pillowcases from it in the form of bags on a string. Continuing with the cat theme, I painted cat paw prints on the walls with my own hands. — Were there any difficulties on the way to implementing this project? — The most labor-intensive were the windows in the wall between the nursery and the living room. These are real glass windows of a round shape. But the craftsmen managed to do everything neatly. — Did everything turn out the way you wanted? — The completed renovation almost completely corresponds to the sketches I drew. A little improvisation took place when choosing accessories and lamps. — Does this nursery have its own special features? — A mezzanine bedroom above the wardrobe. This is my invariable technique. In this case, it is accessed by a staircase, the steps of which fold down to form a secret room for playing with dolls.
Photo provided by Tatyana Aprelskaya
Interior design rooms in Provence style for a small princess
