This beautiful and practical book contains just enough information for you to design and decorate friendly and stimulating spaces for your children--without getting sidetracked by impossibly ambitious schemes. "Children"s Room Essentials" begins with a section on Bedroom Styles, which covers rooms for babies, rooms for girls, rooms for boys, and shared rooms--with advice on how to adapt the rooms as children grow. The second section, Living Spaces, gives special attention to play spaces, eating spaces, and bathrooms. Here you"ll see how decorative planning works in practice, with the help of plenty of colour photographs of real homes. Hard-working bullet points supplement the text, and each style section ends with an inspriational photo-montage page. Finally, an invaluable directory of resources tells you the best places to find what you need.