Narrative (Architectural Designs): The Little Girl's Bedroom (Wk 7)

What is more interesting to narrate about other than a little girl's bedroom?

I have found this amazing bedrooms just by googling 'the little girl's bedroom' and all these expensive, magical fairytale-like bedrooms pop on my screen and I literally gasped and screamed thinking 'how I wish I can be this spoilt sometimes when I was younger'.

Imagine that you walk your way to your niece or your friend or your sister's daughter's bedroom and when you open the door and suddenly you are in Disney's Cinderella's world? It is amazing how these designers could actually make the phrase 'fairytales do exist' come true. This was made by Mark Wilkinson Furniture in London for a soccer star. Mr Wilkinson refused to give the names of his clients but he only tells the reporter that his client is a soccer player. Perhaps a very wealthy soccer player because this bedroom costs a whopping $99,000 US dollars! 

Thus we can see that a bedroom can tell us a story. For example these bedrooms tell us one of the fairytale stories we know of such as Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty which all come from the Disney Fairytale movies. Anyone who have watched some of the fairytale movies would recognize the designs in the bedrooms such as the round horse carriage which we have seen in Disney's Cinderella movie.

 

A short 'trailer' of the Disney's classic Cinderella movie will play in our mind as soon as we see the horse carriage, the castle and the little crown shapes. It also tells us a story of how the little girl herself loves the movie so much that she would have persuaded her parents to design a Cinderella theme for her room. This also tells us a story about the little girl's personality. We know that not all children have the same personalities so this bedroom could tell us that the little girl love to watch fairytale movies and also to want to have a life like the princesses she have watched.

This does not always occur to children but adults too. Our own personal spaces could tell our personality and this have proven by some researchers. Bedrooms, offices, bathrooms which are very personal to us could tell whether we are an extrovert or introvert, or that we are the 'messy' type or a perfectionist. Just by looking how we organize our bed, computer and even our wardrobes tell a lot about who we are. 

From each of these rooms we can tell what kind of person that owner is. He or she could be a clean or a messy person. We could also tell if that person is an organized person or not just by looking how he or she decorate her place or how she organize her toiletries, books and even how he or she folds their bedsheets. Thus personal spaces could tell us a story of an individual or even perhaps tell us the life of that individual because all those designs come from our own preferences meaning our ideal way on having such a space that suits our comfort which somehow preserves that personality of ours.


References:

http://www.articlesbase.com/interior-design-articles/bedroom-decorating-style-show-your-personality-768296.html
http://www.decoratingstudio.com/articles_consumer_info/color_personality.html
http://www.utexas.edu/features/archive/2002/spaces.html
http://www.bornrich.org/entry/soccer-offsprings-sleep-in-a-99000-enchanted-world/