A room in his image

Gaëlle, 10, wanted a change of scenery. Her room, fitted out for the needs of a little girl, no longer reflected her “almost preteen” reality. She shared her requests with her mother, who is also an interior stylist who specializes in creating spaces for children. Gaëlle and her mom agreed to show us around the owner. Visit.

Sophie Ouimet
The Press

“My daughter’s requests were specific: she wanted a large bed, a full-length mirror, and a place to put up posters,” summarizes Marie-Pier St-Onge, Gaëlle’s mother.

“She also wanted us to remove the things she no longer liked in her room,” continues the founder of the decoration and styling company Plume pompon. Farewell, therefore, to the canopy, the garlands of luminous balls and certain slightly more childish illustrations that adorned the walls of his bedroom in his house in Saint-Lambert.

Based on these needs, Gaëlle’s mother set to work. She first unearthed (and sometimes retyped) new furniture: a large bed, a bedside table, a desk, a bookcase… Not to mention a superb arched mirror, found on Marketplace, Facebook’s sales platform.

In fact, almost all of this furniture is second-hand, says Mr.^me St-Onge. “I think it gives personality to the piece,” she says.

neutral tones

Once the furniture was installed, she created a space with neutral tones, in order to be able to make small changes in the future without having to redesign the entire room.

One of the main aspects of the bedroom refresh is the accent wall against the bed. In collaboration with MURdesign, M^me St-Onge made a wall of wooden panels painted in beige and placed vertically (shiplap). A picture rail has also been added above the bed, to place beautiful objects.

All that remained was to add other accessories, including a rug from Loloi, an American company. It is colorful and, above all, rather thin, underlines M^me St-Onge. “For bedrooms, I don’t like having thick rugs that pick up allergens. Also, I love that the rugs frame an entire area and give a really fun finishing touch. »

Areas

Precisely, when Marie-Pier St-Onge works on the refitting of a bedroom, she generally approaches the project by zones. In her experience, there are often three areas in children’s rooms: one for sleeping, another devoted to storing clothes and a final one for games, reading or a small desk. Doing so allows you to rework one area at a time when you want to make a change, when the child grows up, for example.

This is what she recently did in the bedroom of her 6-year-old son Colin, by rearranging his small low game table in order to transform it into a desk for his studies. The color block on the wall has also been repainted to better frame the new space. In addition, everything was done at a lower cost, by reusing most of the things she had on hand. “It will give him an office area for years to come, without changing his entire bedroom”, concludes M^me St-Onge.