It feels like yesterday I was writing about Design Challenge One 2016 – and now a whole year has passed! I have to admit, there’s been a lot more to think about this time around with little Ziya in tow. I’m not ready to part with him for more than a couple of hours at a time (and I’m still breastfeeding) so he comes everywhere with us. But what a lovely ‘on-set’ distraction he is!
We also helped celebrate The Living Room’s 200th episode and Ziya was our extra special guest.
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Ziya helping us to celebrate 200 episodes
Design Challenge One was all about creating a colourful bedroom for two beautiful young girls – Chloe and Maddie. We were entrusted with three year old Maddie’s bedroom, and the brief was to ensure we up-cycled the existing chest of drawers and bed, as well as creating plenty of storage for all her toys.
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On location with Barry Du Bois
Maddie’s favourite colours are purple and yellow. We tied these colours in by designing a custom made circus tent-inspired canopy to sit over the toy wall. Walking through the door your eye is instantly drawn to the colour.
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A colourful canopy with plenty of storage for toys.
To refresh the bed and chest of drawers, we repainted them and replaced the existing knobs with cute little cloud-shaped handles.
Maddie was quickly attracted to the custom fold-down craft station that has plenty of space for her colouring pencils and a roll of butcher’s paper for drawing.
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Ziya making his Living Room debut
To watch the full episode, and for supplier information including paint colours, head to TenPlay.