Day 5: My Space

Today, (or rather, yesterday, because I didn't actually get around to posting. *sigh*) Maren chose design.

What is design? Design is using creative skills to come up with useful ideas.

Someone had to design your toothbrush and your house, your shirt and your cell phone. Everything around us that is manufactured went through a design process first.

We can also use design in deciding how to arrange the things around us. For instance, we design our hairdo in the morning, design our wardrobe for the day, design how to arrange the furniture in the living room.

Maren's assignment today was to find some cool designs for her dream bedroom and to make a quick sketch of how she'd like her own bedroom (if she could do what she wanted).

Maren dreams BIG! ;-)

First she started looking at beds. There are a LOT of cool beds for teens out there. She decided on this one--the ultimate in teen leisure:


You can't see it from this angle, but the bed also has a built-in flat screen television monitor on the opposite side from the desk with storage for more CDs or DVDs or Video Games. It has speakers built-in as well.

She really liked the central feature of THIS bedroom:



See that at the front of the picture? Yup. A hot tub, right in the middle of the floor. Sounds great to me!

She likes THIS desk:


She still needs to look for JUST the right dresser, but she also really liked THIS bedroom:



After spending some time searching things like 'cool beds for teens' and 'cool desks for teens' and 'cool bedrooms for teens' she got out the graph paper and scissors and started laying out what she wanted her room to be like.

It's still in process and a project that could take some time to complete. She can do that on her own time, and I'm sure she will. She's caught a bit of the design bug. She can still decide on paint colors by browsing and taking paint chips at the hardware store, she needs to add a dresser and a closet and windows and shelves and cabinets and such. She can also search images of the sheets and blankets she wants, of artwork she'd like on the walls. She can even search images of the perfect lamp and trash can if she wants.

But, since she's dreaming, her dream bedroom is HUGE! About 300 square feet--plenty of space to kick that soccer ball around! At least as long as she doesn't try to fit a pony.