Design Hints needed for an easy to tidy bedroom that's very calming

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My dd1 is 8 and has (probably) ASD - Aspergers. She seriously seriously (yes I did mean to write that twice ) can not see a mess. At the same time however things get soooo messy that it takes me hours to tidy so I can then clean AND somewhere inside her head she knows its untidy and she starts claiming that she hasn't got enough toys/can't find things and throws herself around etc. We're about to start doing her bedroom up. The things I've come up with so far as being important are... 1)the room needs to be her sanctuary and needs to make her feel safe 2)Calming colour/s - not too much brightness or garishness as this will give her sensory overload 3)thinking of floor to ceiling cupboards where instead of draws she has pull out tubs that she can throw her toys into.

Anymore thoughts - advice

Sounds fab. I work with ASD children at the most severe ens of the spectrum/ have you tried schedules for her to help things getting in a mess. you could also tyr NAS for advice/ideas

I know she's a DD but I find blue to be a very calming colour (no experience of asd, just my personal opinion). My bedroom is blue (as is my living room). My other bedroom (pre-DS) is a deep dusky pink/light purple colour. Both rooms are very relaxing.
Some nice (and cheap) things in IKEA, plain coloured unit-y type things - lots of storage for things to be thrown in (or put in order) and out of sight. I love things like that with lots of different nooks and crannys. Asda also do very cheap sort of covered cardboard units with draws for kids storage. Depends if she'd trash it I suppose.
What about a bed with a curtain round it or a chair with a 'hood'? I've seen one of those in IKEA to. A very small private place just for DD? I've no experience of ASD, just going by what you said, but IKEA sounds like the place for you!

Look at the Trofast range from Ikea which is wooden frame and plastic boxes that come in different sizes. We have pine frame and green white red and blue boxes, but you can get white frame and white boxes too.

Dark (night) blue walls, with or without painted/stick on stars, depending on how that would work for her. Would make the room dark but safe I think.

Depending on whether she would be safe with a high bed you can get a high bed (I think also from Ikea) with a kind of canvas den underneath.

Not sure how easy it is to get in the UK but Marmoleum is a kind of thick padded lino, that may be good for the floor.

Don't just think of colours...consider textures and echoes and light reflections too. And soft edges rather than hard ones.

My ideal room is probably the way I have our bedroom set up. No pictures of people (scary), plenty of soft furnishings to absorb sound as echoey rooms are very difficult to relax in, materials are very easy to touch (not rough or scratchy), surfaces don't reflect light in unexpected ways, there are no hard obstacles for me to walk into when I'm not thinking about co-ordinating myself. There's heavy duvets (can't sleep under light covers) and plenty of storage room. I can't sleep in the dark, so for me there has to be a small amount of light in the room.

Fantastic. thanks guys.

How about a midi sleeper bed? You can store loads underneath and still have room for a secret cubbyhole to play/hide in. We keep our Xmas tree under DS's plus 2 small chests of drawers for his clothes and there's a bookshelf at the front that creates the secret nook.

For my ds who is probably AS, we found he got distracted & anxious with a messy room. So we fitted a wall of the Ikea wardrobes, where you can mix & match the insides. He has various shelves and pull out drawers (lots of different sizes, so good for his various collections). Once the doors are shut, his room looks very clear & calm. We kept the decoration quite plain(although it is a fairly bright blue). We will gradually add pictures etc as he requests them