Blues and greens combine to make a striking feature wall and are a good foil for warm, wood furniture and natural flooring. Cheerful motifs on the window treatment add to the sense of fun and create a welcoming look.

How to make it work
•A tepee makes an exciting den and will give your child a sense of his own space and privacy, while a desk painted to match the scheme will act as a quiet corner for homework.
•Create piles of cushions for a play area using fabric in co-ordinated stripes, dots and checks that blend with the overall colour scheme.
•Hard-wearing, honey-toned oak furniture should last your child well into the teenage years. Bunks or a trundle bed are ideal for sleepovers.

Furniture
Claypole bunk bed, L202xW102xH169cm, £995; trundle drawer bed, L183xW100xH21cm, £95; wardrobe, H162xW94xD64cm, £795, all New Heights. Hour-glass side table in oak, H65xdiam60cm, £225, Content by Conran. Chrome shelving tower, W61xH160xD46cm, £170, The Holding Company.

Fabric
Curtains in Spinnaker cotton, £35m; blind in Whales, £31.50m; both 150cm wide, Voyage. Cushions on bed, from right, in Star in Pale Blue, £16m, Cath Kidston. Suffolk Check in Indigo, £15m, Ian Mankin. Dottie in Navy, £14.50m, The Natural Fabric Company. Plain pouffe in Blue Jean Denim, £18.50m; striped pouffe in Panama 2, £16.50m; both Ian Mankin.

Accessories
SIBI max ride-on car, £76.50, Lula Sapphire. Blue tub trugs, £9.99 each; illuminated globe, £39.99; striped shoe bag, £18.99; all Letterbox. Woven Candy Stripe duvet cover in Green, £30; Oxford pillowcase in Blue, £11.95; both Cologne & Cotton. Oleana check blanket, £184, SCP.

Floor
Country Textures Waffle Marble carpet, £27 sq m, Cormar Carpets. Pinocchio rugs, diam140cm, £430; 90cm, £180; both SCP.

Walls
Blue wall in Glass Samphire; striped wall in, from top, Oak Fern, Silica White, Bamiyan Blue, Glass Samphire, Verdilith, Pale Lapis, Woad Blue; all matt emulsion, £22.50 for 2.5 litres, Fired Earth.

STYLING SALLY DENNING
PHOTOGRAPHS DAN DUCHARS
FEBRUARY 2008