An updated version of a backlist best-seller, The New Smart Approach toŽ Kids' Rooms offers sensible advice to parents who need help decorating and furnishing their children's rooms. The book presents hundredsof ideas for solving the issues of working with space and color, developing a budget, and selecting age-appropriate design themes. It provides sensible advice for buying a mattress, selecting furniture, and choosing window treatments and flooring. In addition, there are many ideas for organizing play, work, sleep, and storage areas, as well as how to create a room that will be shared by two. Individual, age-specific chapters focus on the needs of newborns, toddlers, young school-age children, and teenagers. 260 lavish color photographs accompany lots of 'Smart Steps' and 'Smart Tips' throughout the book.
Date Published 4/1/2005
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Rated By: Midwest Book Review
From: Oregon, WI
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Comments: Packed with color photos and many different ideas and options Megan Connelly's The New Smart Approach To Kids' Rooms updates a best-selling book on designing spaces for children, from using color to producing rooms both parents and kids will enjoy. From comfortable, easily-cleaned flooring kids will play on without worry to room plans which work with furniture choices, New Smart Approach To Kids' Rooms comes packed with color photos and many different ideas and options.
Rated By: Constance G. Wolfson
From: Ashland, Ohio
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Comments: Gotta Love This! This is a magnificent idea source for decorating a child's room. Everything is in color and what colors they are, too! There are one to three pictures per page. All ages of children's rooms are represented and they even have a small section on children's bathrooms. I first saw a library copy, but fell in love with the book so much that I decided to buy one for me. I'm a librarian and this is the nicest book I've ever seen on the topic. Happy reading and looking.
Rated By: Marie Tachau
From: SOBE, Florida
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Comments: Very Helpful with Basic Advice Wonderful advice with clear illustrations. The sample budget listed in the book is financially on target-unless, the reader is looking for something really posh. (www.poshtots.com for most beautiful furniture). Excellent resource guide is listed in the back chapters. Economical but good unpainted furniture similar to what is illustrated, can be found at (www.woodyou.com). City Furniture at www.cityfurniture.com has excellent choices for beds.
For the "murals" shown in the book, the reader can probably use wallpaper or partial "stick on" to create a smilar look, in order to keep cost down. Items can be found at local Art/Craft Store (Pearl or Michels).
An updated version of a backlist best-seller, The New Smart Approach toŽ Kids' Rooms offers sensible advice to parents who need help decorating and furnishing their children's rooms. The book presents hundredsof ideas for solving the issues of working with space and color, developing a budget, and selecting age-appropriate design themes. It provides sensible advice for buying a mattress, selecting 
