Rooms to Grow In: Little Folk Art's great rooms for ...

Susan Salzman is the founder of Little Folk Art in Los Angeles, which now has retail outlets in Beverly Hills, New York, Houston, and Chicago and provides design services as well as furnishings and custom accessories for clients around the country. She and her husband, Mitchell, live in Los Angeles with their sons, Elijah and Isaac.brbrDaryn Eller has written for numerous national magazines, includingiSelf, Parenting/i, andiHealth/i. She and her husband, Andrew Alper, live in Venice, California.The best children's rooms are so much more than just a place to sleep-they provide a comfortable space for play and study, offer privacy when it's needed, and encourage creativity or just quiet contemplation. A child's room should also express the personality of its occupant, or occupants, in a way that celebrates their unique interests and talents.brbrFor more than a decade Susan Salzman's Los Angeles custom furniture design firm, Little Folk Art, has been providing furniture, accessories, and design consultations for some of the freshest children's rooms and play spaces around. Her fanciful room designs delight not only their young occupants, but their parents as well, with bold, unexpected colors and motifs that are whimsical but never cloying. These are rooms with an attitude, as individual as the kids who inhabit them. Design cues come from sources as diverse as a child's extensive dinosaur collection, a favorite picture book, a vintage fabric, or an antique baseball. Each room is designed to grow and evolve as the needs and interests of the child do-without requiring an exhaustive overhaul.brbrInbRooms to Grow In/bSusan Salzman also addresses some of the most common challenges parents face in furnishing a child's room, from maximizing storage in order to minimize clutter and mess to carving individual sanctuaries out of a shared room and outfitting an infant's room on a budget. She offer