Our daughter, Olivia, has started to show some interest in the overall aesthetic of things, and nowhere is this more obvious than in her bedroom. Where we previously were OK leaving her walls bare, she has constantly talked about the various decor in the other rooms of our house. One of her first words was “cactus”, a reference to a wall-hanging that we have in our front room from the late 1960s. Every time my wife draws or is crafting some form of art, our daughter asks if she can have it. Well, after a few weeks of these inquiries, we finally decided to bite the bullet and start re-designing her room based on what our daughter liked.
One of our daughter’s favorite books is The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and I was lucky enough to find a child’s bedding set with the caterpillar as the focal point. It turned out that I picked out the toddler’s bed size rather than a twin size, so the fitted sheet was comically small. Luckily for me, Olivia was just happy to have anything to do with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and was fine with having another fitted sheet from our closet.
When it comes to sleep effects, having a warm and inviting room is absolutely essential. If you keep things on the spartan side and not have various objets d’art, it becomes difficulty to really feel that your house (or bedroom) isd a home. I feel that the sleep that our daughter has had in the few weeks since we let her start to put different drawings and designs up on her walls (plus those aforementioned sheets onto her bed) has been some of the best that she has ever had. Let us know what you think about the decisions that you have made that have impacted your quality of sleep.