What’s missing in my daughters room

[Mamadooley]

We have a few decorative bits we are waiting on being delivered but does it seem something is missing from my daughters bedroom?

Get stoppers for the windows so they can be left open but no danger of anyone being able to fall out. A key should be left somewhere in the room, maybe blue tack to the top of the frame - it's not very safe from a fire perspective to be in a room with a locked window and not able to unlock it.

Sharpies

A chair and bedside table with a lamp.

@Mamadooley

She will not be left in this room alone ever, and she wears a sleeping bag to sleep, also those Windows only open by a key that is not left in the room

I think it's unrealistic to think she won't ever be alone in her room or that she won't learn to get out of her sleeping bag.

Definitely keep the windows locked, hopefully you can lock them 'on the latch' or it'll be very hot & stuffy.

Also be careful to keep her radiator on ver low or she'll end up hurting her hand climbing up there.

It looks very catalogue pretty, it'll look lovely when she puts the things in there that she wants in there & adds some colour/teddies/life.

Art

At the moment everything touched the floor.

Art on the wall behind the bed will lift the eyes and give the room more oomph

@Mamadooley it’s so gorgeous!
And of course it doesn’t have to get “wrecked” if you don’t want it to, my little girl’s bedroom is like this and she is 4…doesn’t have toys in there or play as such.
I have this colour scheme and I added an artificial plant in a jute basket to bring a pop of texture and green, she loves pretending she’s a dinosaur munching it lol. I would put that at the bottom of the bed or one of those little toddler armchairs from Ikea.

Something like this between the bed and quiet space (I’m assuming, with the canopy?).

beanbag!

@Kolani

A chair and bedside table with a lamp.

Yes.

Colour that isn't pink?

Yes she’s suspected autistic and is in the process of assessment, she loves going in there and closing herself in with the canopy

Personally I'd be moving the box from under the window and adding some different colours in terms of cushions/rug/curtains etc.

If she's anything like mine by the time she's 4 she'll let you know what she likes/dislikes and ask for it to be changed any way 🤣

Books she can reach without having to ask for them.

A few more toys on show.

Pictures on the walls (maybe some by her?) and family photos.

The basket was from homesense and I assume you mean the canopy I’m unsure, I think maybe Amazon

It’s a bit bland and “look but don’t touch”.

The pink is a pretty shade but it’s very stereotyping- the girl who lives in that room is quiet and gentle and very girly. Where’s the fun, the excitement, the adventure?

I’d bring in some less stereotypical stuff, bright colour, things she likes that don’t scream “girl”.

Plants and natural colours and textures, like unpainted wooden shelves, pictures of nature.. have these plants at picture rail height so she can look but not climb up to touch. Plants and natural green colours are proven to to be soothing. They work for people in my family and friends who have autism and MH difficulties.

Bogeys wiped down the side of the bed, nail varnish and make up on the carpet, a tear in the wallpaper, the canopy on the floor behind the ball pit because she's swung on it.........

Maybe that's just my feral kid though!

Ohh she opposite of gentle and girly believe me, she already has the pink wardrobe and bed in our prior house so it’s difficult to veer far from pink unless we buy all new furniture and with an entire new house to carpet and furnish it’s just not an option at the moment so we’ve gone with it

And yes I agree pink is far too stereotyping

It's missing less stereotypically gendered decoration, poor kid. So much pink and hearts

A nightstand or somewhere to put a drink and a lamp or nightlight.

I think to say “Poor kid” is a little ridiculous 🙄 she’s hardly hard done by. She’s a beautiful little girl with a pink bedroom, I’m not sure that’s reason to call child line. C’mon

Ohh she opposite of gentle and girly believe me, she already has the pink wardrobe and bed in our prior house so it’s difficult to veer far from pink unless we buy all new furniture and with an entire new house to carpet and furnish it’s just not an option at the moment so we’ve gone with it

So you can’t possibly add anything in that isn’t pink and girly?

All it would take is a couple of pictures, a toy truck rather than a dolly and a cot, brighter bedding, possibly a different light fitting or a space themed lamp. Bit of lego, building blocks, some spatial development toys.

It’s easy to veer from pink. It would be relatively inexpensive to paint the furniture or use stickers to brighten it up, and get a new drape for the curtain thing or new slats for the blind.

I think it needs more colour, something contrasting. Maybe some curtains.

Some nice ideas here www.idealhome.co.uk/childrens-room/childrens-room-ideas/girls-bedroom-ideas-2-209341 for girls bedrooms that are not so stereotypical, although they still are a bit obviously ‘girly’ and pink and the bit at the end about how to make a girl’s room ‘pretty’ grates, but overall most of the rooms are more neutral.

Bringing in blue also creates a nice contrast and helps break down the stereotyping. You say she isn’t gentle and girly so it seems even more strange to give her such a restricted and stereotypical meek and girly design. Could you paint the wardrobe?

Also jungle wallpaper is cool and can be soothing or exciting depending on the design.