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Denver, CO, 80206
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Marlena Design Group

  • About
    • About
    • Presentations
    • Top 10 Tips For Building Your Dream Home
    • Remodeling With an Interior Designer
    • Publications
    • Our Process
  • Projects
  • Services
  • Testimonials
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Blast from the Past

September 8, 2016 Guest User

Why is the sky blue? Why is it called pineapple? Why do the lifeguards make me get out of the pool when it’s just raining out? Kids are always going to ask questions. Their brains are going a million miles a minute as they’re exposed to the world around them. The games they play, the friends they talk to, the TV they watch brings forth more and more questions, makes them more and more curious. Kids go to museums and start to learn and wonder about how big the world is and, perhaps more importantly, how long it’s been around before them.

As your kids get older, you introduce them to your favorite books, movies and games. They learn about It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and they see the original Star Wars movies. They read about churning butter in Little House on the Prairie and how the very worst thing is to have to take the longest slide back to the beginning of Chutes and Ladders. Their young lives are being shaped every day by what they’re exposed to and surrounded by. What not take a vintage approach to their rooms and allow them to fill their curiosity tanks to the max?

Start with a wrought iron bed and a stack of quilts with modern prints instead of a duvet. Add small pieces of wooden furniture and comfy pillows in soft fabrics mixed with natural knit throws. A wallpaper covered in retro record players or shelves of sweets as if from Paris in the ‘50s bring a playfulness to the room. For the finishing touches, bring in your favorite toys you’ve saved, have a bookshelf dedicated to the picture books you remember from being their age. You just can’t forget to be ready for their questions.

Contact Marlena to get this look.

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In interior design, kids rooms Tags interior design, kids, kids rooms, vintage, wayfair, landofnod, anthropologie

It's a BIG World After All

July 14, 2016 Guest User

Summer vacation is always the time of year to dive headfirst into a new adventure. A two-week trip to the beach with the kids, a weekend with an SO to the mountains or a solo hiking trip are just the beginning. The days are long and entire afternoons are spent exploring and playing pretend in the backyard. Maybe it’s a trip to a deserted island via a reading of The Swiss Family Robinson for the first time as a part of a summer reading project, or perhaps a journey to California while watching Finding Dory.

This summer especially we have been bit hard by the adventure bug with the Summer Olympics in Brazil (that was not a Zika joke.) We will happily watch the opening ceremony while the citizens of Rio show the world what they’re made of. Athletes around the globe will fly their flags and wear their national pride on their sleeves. We will see champions from all over, hear languages we don’t speak and maybe even learn the name of a country of which we have no prior knowledge.

Sometimes it seems like the world is getting smaller every day. It’s easier to travel—though increasingly more expensive—and with all the various media outlets including Snapchat and Instagram, we are constantly given glimpses of life we have never seen before. But with all this access comes the realization that we have so much to see for ourselves during our lives. A kid’s room full of maps and modes of transportation can jumpstart a life of wondering what this world has to offer.  

Below is Marlena’s vision of how to bring adventure into your home. Contact her here for more information.

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In kids rooms Tags kids rooms, travel, teensrooms, globes, bedrooms, nursery, benjaminmoore
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