Designing and decorating a kid’s bedroom is great fun, but it’s also easy to get carried away, forgetting that it has to be practical as well as imaginative. All your careful planning, theming and children’s furniture shopping will go out the window unless at the end of it you have a space that will accommodate your kids properly.

This means oceans of storage. It’s difficult to describe just how much in the way of clothes, toys, games, hobby materials and keepsakes children amass over time, and their bedroom has to be equipped to deal with all of it. Fortunately, kids’ bedroom accessories are available to take advantage of.

Bed tidies

Bed tidies are fabric pockets run alongside the edge of your children’s beds. They are clever storage solutions that take up no extra space and even hide whatever is lurking under the bed.

Boxes and baskets

You will find a whole array of boxes and baskets for toys and so on online. Some of them are even themed to fit in with particular imaginative room designs.

Hanging pockets

Similar to bed tidies, these fabric pockets hang from the walls. Again, they are a way of providing extra storage without encroaching on floor space.

Trinket boxes

A nice trinket box is a special treat. Your kids will hide all their keepsakes inside it and it will become a little piece of their childhood history as they grow up.