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KIDS’ ROOMS that grow with your child

eeping up with the evolving requirements and demands of your child is a skill every parent has to master, so when it comes to planning and decorating their bedrooms, (often a place for work, rest and play) then the specific requirements of these smaller humans really come into focus. Change; it happens gradually and yet comes around surprisingly fast. Where a cute cot once stood, in the space you carefully created even before your bundle of joy arrived, you now have a ‘big kid bed’, and those small cuddly toys have been replaced with board games, Lego scale models and a library of books. Forwardplanning the fundamentals of this room will ultimately save you money, so investing in some long-term thinking should mean you will buy once, not thrice. This type of forethought can start from the very beginning once you know which

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