Wall Design for Children Daycare

Simple Wall Treatment

Contemporary Kids design by Vancouver Interior Designer Noon Interior Design

This pic shows wall treatment for children daycare in simple way. Applies some paints and or wall sticker with to create fun ambiance. Create some patterns, cute and colorful ones and put them on the walls. As seen in this photo, wall and ceiling use plain color: yellow light and white paint. The colorful patterns are only on walls and floor. Very simple yet beautiful. Themes Wall

Eclectic Basement design by Chicago Design-build Gander Builders

Love this one! :) Themes on wall is often aye catching and unique. Grocery store and police station, children would love this. Wonderful design for children daycare or playroom.

Mini Wood Cabin

Modern Kids design by Grand Rapids Interior Designer Mindi Freng Designs

This wall design use second-hand materials. Brilliant ideas to create beautiful in low cost budget.

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Designing Children Daycare

Designing Children Daycare
Let's talk about children and interior design. Children, especially in early age need a place that provide safety, caring, love and education. School for early ages or children daycare should be designed according those requirements. Children daycare is a place full of tiny creatures gathered around learning how to play,socialize, cry, pee and sleep. okay, that's my humble opinion. I am not talking or writing about school design, I will post on next topic but now focus on how to design children daycare. Daycare is for children age 6 months to 5 years old. I think In some countries this age categorizing is a bit different. Because in that age, children are not able to take care of themselves, yet. They still need adult chaperones who provide guidance, teaching and caring.

 

In term of designing children daycare, safety is important. the design form of floors, walls, ceilings must be considered carefully as well as the finishing materials. No sharp edges for furniture, non slip floor, non toxic materials and non allergenic furnishings. Rounded form for furniture such as tables, chair, cushions can create playful and friendly image. And using decorative colors for finishing can stimulate kiddies brains.

Designing children daycare is to provide caring and loving environment. soft cushions,pillows and blankets, stuffed toys. They could evolve the sense of loving, caring and tenderness. Non flammable, Anti bacterial, Non toxic and non allergenic materials are highly recommended.
Pay more attention in designing air circulation and air condition arrangement to create healthy environment.

Daycare is a place for education as well, because by staying at daycare children have the same working hour as their parents. Therefore daycare must be designed to provide children's need such as meal, nap time, play time and study (classroom, small group activities and library). Baby cribs, small beds, dining tables, playground area and small classroom are standard facilities to support educative activities at daycare

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Christmas Window Display Design

CHRISTMAS WINDOW DISPLAY DESIGN
I am still interested in window display design. It's Christmas month, the festive will go for one month, it's time to change the window display design theme to welcome the spirit of shopping and entertaining. I have observed there are many Christmas item that usually added to Christmas window display design theme e.g Santa clause, reindeer, snow, pine tree, toys factory, the bells, Jesus cave. They are classic Christmas decor. We don't have to use all those classic decor to create unique Christmas window display design. We can use theme as peter pan celebrating Christmas, There are few things noted:

Every Christmas window display design must have central feature that draws attention. And everything else comes around is accompaniment which have to be harmonized or blended well with the focal point. Play with spotlights, track lights, floor lights to create impressive highlight on focal
point. If we want to make it simple design, just keep focus to create less is more look. we can put One central feature harmonized with lighting and color. Or play it with full ornate Christmas window design. Apply one color theme with full Christmas ornaments, colorful Christmas items put together, all of them mixed well with good lighting arrangement. Designing Christmas window display is not just merchandise but includes balance composition of lighting, color and space.

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Unique Window Display Design

Window display design is the first impression people to customer to see what you are selling on your store.
A good window display design is to invite, seduce, entertain people who walk pass the store. The most important is to attract more customer to enter the store.
there are many ways to create good window display design:

work on a theme or focus on certain products, the latest trends or discounted items. Keep it simple and focus, don't put too many merchandise on window display it will make them cluttered.
Good lighting also play a role in window display design. Use the lighting to create a mood and spotlight individual product.Use track lighting and or spot light to create entertaining ambiance. this type of design works on store at the mall. if your store location is on the street, you may need to have big graphic display, bold colors and lighting design.





Here is a few samples of window display design which I think is unique, entertaining and have selling point.
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Interior Design Idea for Entries

Few samples of interior design for entries.

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Best Building of 2008, Business Week Version

BusinessWeek/Architectural Record annual design award winners

Here are few of best building designs according to Business Week. Some of them are good in design and function.
The winners of this year's BusinessWeek/Architectural Record awards demonstrate a pragmatism that seems appropriate in these credit-crunched times. That's not to say the designs are boring. The new headquarters for workspace design firm Haworth (above, kitted out with all its own products for potential clients to see in action) are striking, while the huge steel lattices running from top to bottom of the south sides of the towers of Poly Real Estate's Poly International Plaza in Guangzhou, China act both as decoration and as energy-saving shade. All six winning projects are emblematic of the awards' semi-official slogan, "Good Design is Good Business."


One Haworth Center: From Dull to Dramatic
Location: Holland, Mich.
Client: Haworth
Architect: Perkins + Will
Office designer Haworth replaced its dull, traditional building with a structure that has a dramatic, swooping glass-walled atrium running along one side the building.

Edmunds.com: Focus on Collaboration
Location: Santa Monica, Calif.
Client: Edmunds.com
Architect: STUDIOS Architecture
The 90,000-sq.-ft. head office for automotive research outfit Edmunds.com was designed to encourage collaboration.
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Tokyo Swatch by Shigeru Ban

Tokyo Swatch by Shigeru Ban
by Terri Peters

The new Swatch flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district immediately stands out from the surrounding high-end fashion boutiques on this densely packed street. There is no doorway, no visible sign, and no glass storefront. Instead, a towering four-story void in the streetscape seems to signify a civic-scale entry.

The building's enormous retractable glass "shutters" create this dramatic effect when open. Then when the shutters are down — on rainy days and when the shop is closed — the building is disguised as a normal, curtain-wall office building.

This unusual store, named the Nicolas G. Hayek Center, is the work of U.S.-trained Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Even at first glance, the building reveals itself as more than just a fancy facade: it is real architecture, a project about volume, spatial complexity, and experimentation.

Garden of Luxury

As visitors step off the busy sidewalk into the lobby of the 14-story Swatch building, no merchandise presents, and no salespeople patrol the door. A subtle change in floor material marks the low-key threshold between the sidewalk and the interior showroom. The massive lobby is dotted with glazed hydraulic elevators, planted trees, and a 13-story-tall hanging garden wall.

It's hard to believe that among the high-rent offices, posh boutiques, and exclusive restaurants of Ginza, in a forest of buildings mostly ten stories high and taller, Ban was able to design a little bit of semi-public space. The airy interior spaces, unconventional interior-exterior treatment, simple materials, and fragrant green lobby create an oasis of unusual calm.

source: Architecture Week

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Architectural Drapery

Architectural Drapery, The Cascade Coil Drapery
Architectural Drapery mesh interweaves weatherproof copper and stainless steel wire. Los Angeles–based designers ARYA Group used the mesh for the Village School gymnasium facade in Pacific Palisades, California.

Then carried it indoors for window treatments, light fixtures, and the curtain on a stage at one end of the gym. It's also available in a natural aluminum finish, nickel plated, or colorfully painted.
This is an architecture and interior design idea you can apply to your home design, drapery combined with wired copper ball in colorful paint. Sure looks unique and playful.

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Elements of Interior Design

INTERIOR DESIGN ELEMENTS
To design an interior space there are few elements that must be considered carefully for designers in order to create good design and solve the problems in space planning.

SPACE
The most essential element in space planning. There are 3 types of space element, flat space, perceptual space and actual space. Flat space is where there is no illusion of depth, consists height and width as seen in 2 dimensional drawing. Perceptual space is where the space is illusion like photographs or perspective drawings. We can create the illusion of depth by using shadows, colors, lines, mirrors, and lights.
The designer should have a complete understanding of the dynamics of perceptual and actual space and the difference between them,even though it may seem pretty obvious.The former is an illusion; the latter is a fact. But actual space can also be manipulated to create illusions by using other design elements like light, color, texture, line and reflected surfaces.

FORMS
The importance of forms in architecture-interior is obvious. Everything we touch, see, or feel is manifestation of forms. Form is the antithesis of space, i.e., if form is consideredto be a positive mass, then space would be considered negative. Forms can be either straight,curved, or irregular

LINE
There are 2 type of lines: straight and curved
Straight line can be in horizontal, vertical or diagonal. Basically straight lines will give impression of strengh, firmness and simplicity. Horizontal lines tend to suggest of repose, tranquility and make the illusion of wider room. Whilst diagonal lines suggest motion and energy, activity, dynamism and restlessness. And vertical lines can have an uplifting quality and tend to suggest strength,aspiration and dignity. They also express masculinity and formality. also creating the illusion of increased heights.

TEXTURES
Textures refer to smoothness, roughness,coarseness or fineness of object's surface. For example: 1. Totally smooth surface, such as worktops, painted walls, ceilings, windows and built in furniture
2. The rough textures associated with concrete and brick, stucco and stone
3. The soft sensation of a pillow, a plush pile carpet or gentle upholstery or curtains.
4. The delicate and sensuous texture of live objects such as human skin or leaves and flowers,
and even the kinetic texture of rippling water.

PATTERN
Pattern is formed by the use of line, form, light and color. Becareful in using pattern, it can make distractive room if not balanced. Pattern, in essence, is created by the juxtaposition of related positive and negative visual elements in a given space.It works best with the element of color.When working together,they act as an accent to catch the eye.When pattern is blended with color, they work in harmony. Pattern helps create instant visual impact and mood.

LIGHT
Lighting serves two basic needs—to illuminate a task and to establish a mood.It shapes the
look and feel of a space by highlighting certain areas and playing down others. Playing with lights in architecture and interior space can bring out the positive energy and can create fascinating eye catcher.

COLOR
Colors can give the psychological effects if it's applied in interior space. Whether negative or positive effects. Designers must be very careful in choosing colors. Some requirements should be considered in making color plan

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Office Lounge Interior

We designed this office lounge interior for banking office dedicated for special customers. Actually it is a sample of old fashioned office lounge interior design for old fashioned bank office. All used colors (grey and brown) are matched with corporate colors. With dominantly grey colors would make this office interior looks dull. The design is still in form of simple and minimalist interior design only the line textures applied on walls.

There is no specific lightings nor ceiling design that could make this office lounge interior look more appealing and also the furniture design is not quite representative for modern office lounge interior. We think this office design is done around 4 years ago :)

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Modern Lighting Design

These interior lighting fiuxtures will create beautiful shadow. With colorful lights emerge the colourful shadow. It will enhance the atmosphere of your interior design. These are from koziol, available in hanging and floor lamp.

STIXX
The expressive impact of this lamp is enhanced to perfection by light. The myriad reflecting surfaces make the elements shimmer and shine, creating beautiful effects.

FUSION

The fascinating texture of this lamp, produces a mesmerizing interplay of light and shadow, making the lamp a design objec t in its own right. It can be showcased solo or in a rainbow chorus , and the wide choice of colors provides rich potential for an array of atmospheres.

ALICE

This fixture emanates a sensuous, warm glow, colourful pattern-shadow and adds atmosphere to any interior.

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Receptionist Interior

This interior design sketch is the receptionist counter in karaoke room. The concept is modern style. It is designed using frosted glass, mirror, cement textured and vinyl wall covering for the wall combined with wooden counter table and display case. For ceiling, play with circular form in gypsum board, continuous lightings and spot lights for certain part of the ceilings. All colors are natural colors, gray, brown and beige.

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Bar Counter Interior for Billiard Cafe

Bar corner, special designed for billiard café. The counter table is made of wood and metal material, as for wall, the textured wall combined with vinyl wall covering to create warm ambiance.

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Bar Counter Interior

This bar counter is special designed for office lounge. It was created sharp and clean in simple forms to represent its corporate image.
The only eye catcher is the bright red entrance gate. The ceiling is designed in cloud forms in gypsum board.

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The Hallway, interior design

These sketches show the interior design of corridor café. Each corridor has a different design especially on the wall and ceiling treatment. The one has a wall shelf in oriental style and textured paint. The other has frosted glass combine with wooden partition and painted wall. For the ceiling they have different design form and lighting style.

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Suite Room Interior

The view of interior hotel, the suite room. It’s an old project for amusement park design.

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Interior of Karaoke

Here are few sketches of interior design of karaoke singing hall. They are small singing rooms for 2-4 persons in contemporary style design.

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