Because a room built around a dinosaur obsession and a single bed that'll be outgrown by Year 4 is not a design strategy — it's an expensive mistake.

Let's have an honest conversation about the most expensive room in your house that nobody talks about.

It's not the kitchen. It's not the main suite. It's your child's bedroom — the one you lovingly designed around their favourite cartoon character, their "phase" of being obsessed with rainbows, or the single-sleeper bed that made total sense when they were six. The one you're now standing in, three renovation cycles later, wondering how you got here again.

This is what I call the revolving door of kids' room design — and it costs Australian families thousands of dollars every few years in furniture replacements, repaints, and "why did I even bother" moments.