To ask for your amazing box room solutions?

[Islands81]

Poor dd2 drew the short straw and has the tiniest box room in the world. We’ve been here 5 years and I’m currently in the process of binning/donating pretty much all the stuff she had that she never plays with (12 bin bags and counting!).

She refuses to sleep in her high up bed anymore because she once saw a spider (she’s being assessed for ASD and gets a bed in her bonnet about stuff) , so at her request I’ve now bought her a day bed, which has drawers and a pull out trundle underneath. So the big bed is going which is going to create a storage nightmare.

She still has a fuck ton of stuff she claims she can’t part with which is in my room at the moment. Toys, organised into big storage boxes, books, games, the biggest hamster cage in the world, sparkly bags and all that shit. Currently her clothes are not in her room and I can’t see that changing. Where the feck am I going to put all this stuff?

I’ve included a pic so you can see my problem. Please don’t judge the mess (it’s a work in progress!) or the hideous pink walls (she chose them a few years ago and they’re going).

Please share any box room storage miracles that you have!

I need more help O Wise Ones

I’ve painted the room and frankly it looks shite. The colour has turned out nothing like the label on the tin, and it is a weird murky brown-pink. Not only is it a bit horrible, but it will clash really badly with the furniture I’ve bought.

I also think it’s still too dark for the room.

So I’ve decided to paint over it in white and start again. I personally think a really pale candyfloss type pink would look best, but at this stage I’m not trusting my judgement.

Have stared at colour charts until my eyes have started boggling but still can’t make a decision. Help! Am hitting B&Q again tomorrow so need an idea of what I want first.

Could you get some tester pots and try a few colours and then once dried decide on a colour?

Try a different lightbulb.........you need a much brighter one. Honestly will make a real, difference.

I wouldn't go pink either, a really pale, cornflower blue type colour would look lovely.

DD has the box room & we're redecorating right now!

The room is approx 6 foot wide & 8 foot long.

She has a 2'6" bed which sits along the length of the room with chest of drawers next to it for her clothes with cd player, lamp, alarm clock etc on top.

She has 3 large tubs under her bed for toys.

At the end of her bed she has a slim bookcase that's 4 foot tall. She has lego models displayed on top & books & cuddly toys on the shelves.

The wall opposite her bed has the window & heater & that wall is kept empty otherwise she doesn't have much floor space.

Her bedding is kept in the airing cupboard. Any clothes that need hanging up goes in the wardrobe in our bedroom.

It used to feel really crowded as she had shelves mounted on the wall & a tall bookcase at the end of her bed. It's much better now just needs painting & a new carpet.

Tester pots would be a sensible plan but the problem is I live far away from any DIY store, so it would be a right mission to have to go back again. Also the whole house is in chaos, the contents of her room are in my room and I’ve got half of IKEA in the living room in boxes. It’s starting to drive me mad and I just want to get the painting finished and the furniture built.

Would a cornflower Blue not look wrong with the blue of the furniture (genuinely clueless about this sort of thing!)?

And re the lightbulb, it looked horrible in daylight too. I was hoping it might magically change whilst I was out but it didn’t.

It looks to me the colour of walls that have just been plastered. It’s going to bother me forever if I leave it like that!

We have a room like that and a few years ago built a basic frame below the window, 3 bits of wood fixed onto the wall studs, a wooden front that I painted and the slats and wood they rest on were reused from the old bed, the mattress fits nicely on top, then underbed drawers.
It's freed up the rest of the room, plenty of ikea wall storage, shelves a desk etc & it looks great!
It can be done

My girls room looks just like that! Fairly similar dimensions.
We got a shorty bunk bed (we had a lovely little one that extended but my older daughter decided to start staying over again so we had to get her a bed too) and at the end of the bed (there's about 1 and 1/2 foot between the end of the bed and the wardrobe) we have a Stuva wardrobe with extra drawers in the bottom and a shelf at the top, and one of the Ikea boxes on top. We have a single tall Trofast unit that fits between the door on the left and the chimney breast, and a single set of tall drawers the other side of the chimney breast.
We got a set Trofast for the hallway just outside her room - the one that goes up in steps? - so extra toys go there and we have 2 slim Ekets on the wall in the hall for the kids books. There's not much room in my boys room either as there are three beds in there so the extra toy boxes come in very useful.
All girls bits like MLP and bunting and sparkly girly stuff goes on the walls as much as possible. Her CD player and fake flowers live on top of her drawers next to the bed. And we have a unicorn cardboard box thing that houses her CDs and lives on the windowsill. Oh, and the eleven million stuffed toys and plushies and MLPonies all live on the bed. Somehow she fits in there with usually a cat or two for company!
All in all, I have to make sure I get rid of stuff when she's not here (she is diagnosed ASD too) and she doesn't notice, and I make sure any boxes stuff goes under the bed. It pays to be organised and sort it out when she's at school. It is totally doable though.

@Islands81 we originally had a Minnen that you're looking at and it's a beautiful bed, really great too. My girl is a big 8 year old and she had plenty of room in it. Shame we had to get the bunks instead as I miss that little bed

Bear in mind the space to build the bed. Our space fitted the bed perfectly but because the screws went in on the outside of the bed we couldn't screw it together because there wasn't a mm of space.

Place marking as i may need
I have a 4x4 KALLAX and I think I need to ditch it. It’s just too big

Thanks everyone - furniture is all bought - got the Minnen bed which will go under the window, the stuva/wardrobe and chest of drawers along the long wall on the right, matching stuva toy box for the hamster cage to sit in on the shortest wall next to the door, 4 squares of kallax to go on the wall above that, and a stuva wall cabinet that will go somewhere around the bed, going to see where it looks best when all the other furniture is in. Also bought a bean bag storage thing for cuddly toys, and just bought this which can be a bedside table as there won’t be room for one next to the bed because of the radiator. Lamp can go on the windowsill and I bought a cloud light which fixes onto the wall from ikea which can go over her bed. Also going to get some spice racks on next trip to ikea to go behind the door for books (managed to just stick to the essentials on the last trip as it’s january and I’m poor!), as well as no doubt other frivolities that we come across.

It’s just the paint I need to make a decision on now! It looked so much lighter after two coats of white, so I think a very pale pink would be best. It needs to match the blue of the stuva furniture I’ve bought.

I've just been looking through dh dulux colour chart, what about something like these. The lagoon falls is like the wardrobe

We have Dulux satin bow. It's a really lovely soft pale pink. It would work well in a small room as it definitely doesn't suck any light out of the room. I'd take a pic but I'm lying here in the room in the dark trying to get my daughter off to sleep

Try downloading the dulux visualizer app, found that really helpful when I just couldn't decide

Not RTFT so may be repeating info from pp but could try a shorty bed? My dd has a king single that is only 5'9" long I bought online for her room which is long but incredibly thin. then you could put it under the window and you could rack out the walls with Kallax units from Ikea.

Lagoon falls is the sort of colour I was thinking.

My dds room is pale pink and it looks awful as her room is so small. I think It's a very, draining colour.

We're going for a very pale, cornflower blue with white woodwork and white furniture. She has pink bedding etc and it should go.

Just need to do the boys room first.........he's having blues (( walls )), grey (( bedding )) and red (( red Kallax boxes )) but all white furniture. (( he wanted the whole room red but I kindly pointed out it would be like living in the birth canal ))

Op, the colour blue innthe picture you just posted is exactly the shade I was thinking.

Mezzanine level? If the ceilings are high enough

She’s adamant she wants pink...and she claims to love the way it’s painted at the moment, but it would look bloody awful with the blue furniture. Would blue paint and blue furniture not be a bit too blue?

We have dulux blossom white in Dd’s Room, it is definitely pink but pale.

Maybe leave the colur if DD loves it.

Dont rush it, seriously paint it again next year!

If she likes it let her keep it.........definitely change that bulb tho.

Leave most of it white and paint just the end wall pink? Then it'll be super light and pink so you don't upset DD?

Plus then you can be lazy and only repaint one wall