How to design a bedroom that will grow with your child

Designer nurseries are trending, but practicality and longevity are parents' priorities. We talk to organisers, designers and parents 

We talk to parents, designers and organisers including Catheriona Cahill, Kerry, Hannah Saunders, Dublin, and and Niki Bowman, Galway, on how they set about creating children's bedrooms.

Aspirational designer nurseries filled with task-specific furniture is not necessarily the way to go according to Galway-based professional organiser Niki Bowman of Simplify & Sort.

Tempting as it is to splurge, especially with the first child, it isn’t of long-term value, she maintains. “Babies need less than you think,” she says.