![]() The kids have now outgrown their dated room decor and we are in the process of redecorating and reorganizing their bedrooms. The older my kids get the more I am drawn towards minimalism and a calm (sometimes monochrome) decorating scheme. We love where we live because it’s close to nature, and we decided to embrace tiny house life with our three kids Lage (thirteen), Maria (ten), and Frida (five). ![]() I am originally from the USA, but I moved to Sweden nearly sixteen years ago, when I married my husband David who is from the mountain region of Sweden.Įven though our home is only 22m2 smaller than the average Swedish house it feels small to me when I compare it to the average American home that I grew up in. Monochrome can make small rooms feel bigger!īecause we are five people living in a small house 100 m2 (1076.39 ft2) the idea of using a monochrome color scheme made sense to me not only because it could help my daughter feel calmer, but because it could make her room feel bigger. Could monochrome, minimalism, and organization help my daughter’s ADHD? I believed that exchanging her toy storage system from IKEA with plastic pull-out boxes, for furniture with drawers and doors would create a calmer environment. I hoped that a new shelf and box system to organize things she often accessed would help her remember where to put stuff back. She needed help to minimize her things again! Kids seem to accumulate things at a rapid rate! I rolled up my sleeves and began wading through her stuff. I finally had enough of her disastrous room. There were some flaws in the layout of the room and the types of furniture we used that made it impossible to make the room completely functional. If you need a quick fix without interior decorating click here You can read about exactly how we cleaned and organized her room. This helped her pick up her room by herself. Her room was always a complete disaster until I completely reorganized it a year ago. She was forced to look at all her things all the time! No wonder she didn’t like spending time in her room! Her room had flowered wallpaper and bright paint. We would have a one-bedroom, one-bath home with an open-plan kitchen/diner/living room and three walk-in closets! I guess if we moved our house to the USA we would pay fewer taxes. Even though it had a big window, it didn’t have enough floor space for the tax office to count it as anything other than a closet! My dad usually chuckled and commented that her room wouldn’t be a room in the USA. My daughter Maria (10) has ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – predominantly inattentive which used to be called ADD) she was living in a small room 2.35m x 2.43m (7.7 ft x 7.97 ft) which was stuffed with toys and clothes. The same kids did better on the exact same tasks in an environment that were less stimulating. It was reading about an experiment in the Journal of Cognition and Development that convinced me a monochrome decorating scheme could help my daughter’s ADHD.Ī study found that kids in overstimulating environments performed poorly on tasks requiring concentration. ![]() ![]() ![]() After doing some research and mulling it over for a couple of months, I decided to give monochrome a try in my daughter’s room. ![]()
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