Interior design — a room of her own

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A bedroom for a fourteen-year-old who will be a graphic designer — where colour bends the ordinary forms of a room into new shapes.

The room from above: window wall, violet desk, yellow chair, olive shapes across the walls

Brani & DesiA teenager’s bedroomInterior designFeatured in Creative Home X, Malaysia

The idea

The first room of your own arrives in the teenage years, just as body and mind change fastest. This one belongs to a fourteen-year-old who loves art, graphic design above all. She is sure she is unlike other teenagers — and that one day she will be a famous designer. Her parents wanted to encourage that, and trusted us with her space.

Design brief

Client: A fourteen-year-old girl who loves art — graphic design above all.
Ambition: To become a famous graphic designer, one day.
Brief: Her first room of her own, for the years when body and mind change fastest.
Method: Divide the room into zones by function, and give every zone its own feeling.
Tool: Colour. It bends the usual forms of the room and its furniture into new shapes.
Outcome: A space that feeds her imagination and leaves her free to think and to dream.

Long view: wardrobe, posters and the reading corner — the long view

Bed, window wall and the faceted wardrobe — violet from ceiling to floor

The round wall clock set into an olive shape — the clock

Colour is the layout

We divided the room into zones by what each one is for, and every zone carries its own feeling. Colour does the rest: it bends the usual forms of the room and its furniture into new shapes, which change the way a girl who loves art thinks.

Olive#B2A226walls, ceiling and wardrobe

Violet#CF9BE3desk, bed, ceiling and floor

Saffron#EAA918the chair, the pillow

Mint#C6EBD6the reading-corner cushions

Paper white#FBF8FDthe calm between the shapes

The desk by the window with a yellow chair and tilted shelves — her desk

Desk, monitor and a white octagon on the violet wall — the octagon wall

The door, the work zone and violet stripes across the floor — door to desk

The ART WORLD typographic poster — art world

Bed, posters and the wardrobe from the cat's corner — the wardrobe wall

Wardrobe and the tilted mirror reflecting the room — the tilted mirror

Yellow and mint cushions in the reading corner — cushions

A blue backpack and white sneakers on the floor — left on the floor

Wide view from the reading corner across to the work wall — from the reading corner

Desk by the window wall with the clock — window wall

Tilted white box shelves on the violet wall — tilted shelves

her room,
her rules.

“More freedom to think and to dream.”

That is the main function of the space: to feed the girl’s imagination — and to leave her room to become who she says she is.

In the press

Creative Home X Lifestyle · Malaysia

Bright Ideas — Kids’ Room Special, Vol. 144, pp. 66–68

Page 66: the Bright Ideas opening spread

“Graphical, futuristic and fascinating.”Lily Wong, Creative Home X

“Colours are all around, ‘melting down’ in one corner.”Lily Wong, Creative Home X

“There’s nothing random about how forms, shapes and lines come into a formative interplay.”Lily Wong, Creative Home X

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