Apartments – family houses
For children
Children deserve special treatment as they can be divided in to at least four groups
First group consists of babies and toddlers, which are either about to be born or were born already. They can be in the room or some other common space with their parents until they reach so called nursery age.
Second group represents children in the school age. Little first grader should already have his room adapted to studying.
Another breaking point comes when a child becomes adolescent and starts attending high school. And once again, when he goes to the college or applies for his first job. It´s necessary to pay a lot of attention to modifying the room for your child, and sometimes it can even get quite expensive. But if you follow some simple rules, you can succeed in preserving their furniture from elementary school right until the college. All you have to do is buy some accessories from time to time or adjust colors, which does not ruin one´s budget.
It´s very important that designer can learn a lot of information about the family. The family and its vicinity should be familiar with the fact that their assistance will be necessary to some extent.
If any member of the family wouldn´t be ready or interested to learn this important information, the project may not turn out as good as we need it to. And that would be a pity, even though some change for the better would surely happen anyway. While saying this, I also want to declare that I treat all the information I learn about the family as strictly private, and I never share it even with another family members. Nobody needs to be afraid to tell me about his demands, requirements, desires, or things he would like to experience in his life. Unless he would want it some other way, his family is not going to know about it. It´s a secret enclosed between me and my client. I also work with birthdates, horoscope and numerology.
The most important things to learn are: who lives or works in the house, what suits each of the family members and where they spend most of their time in the house. Father may, for example, be an entrepreneur. Mother doesn´t want to stay on a maternal leave, she wants to return to her work. It´s important to observe, whether the kid´s room suits him and works fine with his character. Each and every child is different – shy, timorous, or too fast and energetic on the contrary. Nowadays it´s very common to say fast and restless children are “hyperactive”. I wouldn´t say they are hyperactive, unless they all would be hyperactive. Contemporary children like to do many things at once but that has a purpose. They will need these skills in their life because they will be expected to master much more knowledge, be faster and more receptive than we had to be.
We had more time to think through what we want to do after school, they will unfortunately not be that lucky. So if your kid is allegedly hyperactive, you should in fact be a happy parent. Your kid is not sick. He will be able to absorb more information during most of his life. It will, though, be more demanding on your parenting skills. But if you manage to understand his needs, your child will be able to absorb loads of information very fast and use it as a benefit in his life. And that´s why I always treat children´s room with a special care. I work with parents but I am also interested to learn about the taste of their children.
Children and parents often like very different things! I would suggest letting children show their opinion freely. I want them to express what they like and wish to have in their room. This process can successfully eliminate even such problems as bullying. Smart layout of child´s room can help him to feel fearless in society; room can support him in not letting the society to oppress him. Sometimes child starts to confide. He becomes capable of speaking about his relationships with friends, whether they like him and how he feels in the school or crowd. Children often attend many hobby groups, parents and schools altogether have big expectations of them, and they don´t have enough time to rest on their own anymore. Children are sometimes really overwrought.
Modifying the apartment in the case that parent wants his child to devote to team sports also has its specifics. Child who does individual sport and child interested in team sports should not have their rooms equipped alike. The room of a future successful hockey player should be different from the room of a future tennis player. The hockey player needs a zone bringing support among the team, success. On the other hand, if we want our child to become good at tennis, we don´t need him to be a team player but to be an individuality. A violin player needs to be both – a soloist and a team player. We have to support his sensitivity and artistry. If we want out daughter to become a painter, we modify the artistic zone and pay attention to the things she has in this zone, whether they suit her interests.
Same mechanisms apply to siblings. If they share the same room, we have to adjust it so they won´t interfere with each other. In the case they have separate rooms and don´t like each other, they don´t cooperate, they fight and argue, it´s necessary to align their rooms in order to stop this rivalry and change it into fondness and helpfulness among them.
Pets
We love animals!
Because I am a former dog owner and current owner of a beautiful Persian tomcat, while my friends have various pets from mice to apes, I was forced to contemplate also on the issue of conditions in which our pets live and rest. It´s important to incorporate them into the space around them, and create comfortable typical or atypical nest for them. We can also rebuild your rabbit house or hen house – you neighbors will wonder what´s that thing in your garden but your animals will live in peace and order.
