All white for a playroom? Good luck with that! It's going to be filthy in no time.

I love the idea and it's such a pretty room.

We tried this, though, and it was not completely successful. The difficulty is that kids need supervision and they are social beings who want company. So until they are 5 or 6 or 7 they don't want to be alone in their rooms and if they are playing with friends, you don't want to leave them unsupervised. So you end up spending a lot of time in their rooms fretting about all the things that aren't getting done in the rest of the house.

It turns out that it's much more convenient to have the playroom near the kitchen where you can keep an eye on them while doing other things.

I love the aesthetic of this room — white with the pops of red. This is what I'd like to do for my daughter's room one day: predominantly white with some colourful accessories.
Philosophically, however, I don't care for the idea of a bedroom being a playspace. I prefer to keep the bedroom strictly as a place for sleep and quiet time. My son's room has a couple of stuffed animals and his bookshelves, and that's it — I don't really want him to be tempted to get up and play when he should be sleeping (and, as Dulcibella points out, when they are quite small, kids don't want to play in their bedrooms by themselves in the daytime either).

My kids (2 and 5) love to play in their room. Sometimes I go play with them, sometimes I don't and they disappear for hours, or they drag stuff out into other parts of the house, then put it away at bedtime. No biggie. I don't know when we decided kids have to have a bedroom AND a playroom, but not everyone lives in a giant house where children can have a suite of rooms.
Agreed though, too much white for a kids room. that's going to be showing dirty fingerprints in no time;)

This is so beautiful. I guess if you have a small house, and absolutely nowhere else to put toys, it could be a nice solution. I'm with the other commenters though. My kids don't really play in their bedrooms unless I am in there with them, and that's not always practical. Plus, my six year old would never be able to fall asleep in a room with so many toys in it. We try to keep her room as calm as possible.

It's a lovely, lovely room though, and I think the white is perfect. It helps keep the room from looking too busy. I wouldn't think it would get very dirty, being a bedroom.

My son is one and a half and his bedroom is right off of our kitchen. His room is baby-proofed, and he will play in there by himself quite often. My husband and I will peek in on him while we are making dinner or whatever and he'll be sitting there, looking at books or playing with toys contentedly. He is not always this self-sufficient...all kids have needy/clingy days, and of course we also play with him a lot. But I guess my point is that not all kids won;t play alone till older.

Also, I totally agree with BadJuJu77. Not everyone has a big house with a separate playroom. We live in a 2 bedroom apartment, and my son's bedroom has to be the playroom. We have a few baskets of toys in the living room too, but we cannot really fit more in there. As long as it is all kept (mostly) tidy, I don't see why this would be an issue. I think the key is finding a creative way to incorporate it all.

This is Apartment Therapy how many apartment dwellers have a child's bedroom and playroom?

i never had a separate playroom growing up because of lack of space. it meant that at the end of every day, we cleaned up and put our toys away where they belonged (shelves, drawers, bins)... however, my friends that did have separate playrooms never had to clean up at the end of the day. they were allowed to leave their toys and mess behind. it was always a mystery to me why we couldn't play in their rooms!! it wasn't until recently that i realized many people have designated rooms for play and that play doesn't happen in a bedroom!! i never felt distracted or the need to get up out of bed to play- there was always tomorrow!

Like some other commenters, my reaction was pretty much "... so, it's a bedroom?"

It really is funny how people in different countries see life. I live in Norway (where the magazine featuring this room is based) and have friends and family with a better economic situation than most, but no one has dedicated playrooms for their children.

But then american style suburbs don't exist, there isn't the geographical room for the Mc mansions. It was interesting to see how AT saw the pictures and thought wow - playroom and bedroom in one! how novel! while the actual article is about how to get the colours right for a 'romantic' style and even mentions that the play kitchen is actually a storage bench.

The focus of the magazine article is more that isn't this little girl lucky to have a play area. period. not a play area in her bedroom as opposed to in the play room.

A friend just moved to Houston and while I was super jealous of her 5 bedroom, 4 bath, 2 lounge, and swimming pool house, bought for a fraction of the price of ours here, i was wondering if people ever loose their kids in them and have to wander around calling for them! he he he!

We have three kids in a three-bedroom bungalow, and made the decision to have one room for sleep and a separate room for play. It's better for us because this way nobody's naps (they all nap at different times) get disturbed by someone looking for a toy or wanting to play in the room. Not to mention that my four-year-old is the type who would take her craft supplies off the shelf and bring them to bed with her.

Gorgeous!

I love the aesthetics of this room and it looks like the family has arranged everything to fit their functionality.

@Larrissas-I really like what you had to say. I think learning from other cultures is very enriching and rewarding. There is no one way to do things. Every family is different and I tire of hearing judgement based criticism as opposed to constructive criticism on this site. I don't understand why some people are so overly critical. If you don't like it or it doesn't work for you family fine, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work for someone else.

As an artist (and mother) I find this room absolutely beautiful. I'm sure their child just loves this room.

Very pretty! My daughter's bedroom at the new place will also be her play area. Dulcibella brought up a great point, though...I'll be spending lots of time in that room, too. I better get myself a comfy chair, and maybe a fold-out table so I can fold the laundry while I'm up there.

Bedroom/playroom combined is working great for my granddaughter. Mommy and daddy bought her a log-legged double bed, handmade, off CL that's about 3.5' off the ground. Under it is a two-tone green shag rug, a shelving unit that's become an oversized doll house, two strings of little white lights around the perimeter and a cluster of sunflower ones in the center, above. With a little white curtain to be pulled in front it doubles as privacy for she and her friends or a convenient way to hide the dozens of little animal critters they play with when grown-up company comes over. It's a huge hit with her friends, they all cluster and hunker down in there and is a great getaway from grownup intervention. Started when she was aged 6-7 so perfect timing.