Sports corner in the interior of the children’s room

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• Features of choosing a complete set of a sports corner
• Children’s room size
• Age and gender of the child
• Materials for the manufacture of sports corners
• Indoor-style sports corner decoration
• Constructive solutions for sports corners
• Requirements for supporting structures
• Features of installing sports corners
• Safety in the use of children’s sports corners

When choosing a room for a children’s room, you must remember not only about the placement of the bed, wardrobes and a place for your heir to play, but also provide a place for a sports corner, which is necessary for the normal development of the child. Let’s talk about the choice and safety of sports corners.

The children’s room is the most multifunctional room in the apartment, when designing it, it should be taken into account that the child must develop comprehensively, therefore it is important to provide for the possibility of installing a sports corner in the room.

Sports corner designs are designed for rooms with a ceiling height of at least 2.35 m. The choice of equipment depends on the area of ​​the room, the age and gender of the child. The following types of structures are distinguished:

1. L-shaped
2. U-shaped
3. T-shaped

Features of choosing a complete set of a sports corner

Children’s room size

Children’s room up to 10 sq. m. Compact sports corners with a minimum set of equipment (wall bars and rope) are suitable. L-shaped equipment is best suited. You can use ready-made furniture for the nursery with already built-in sports elements.

Children’s room from 10 to 12 sq. m. It is possible to supplement the sports corner with rings or a horizontal bar. If the child is a boy over 5-7 years old, a punching bag or press board will do..

Children’s room over 12 sq. m. The construction area, as a rule, does not exceed 4 square meters. m, but the sports area can be expanded and supplemented according to the needs of the child. Basketball hoops, nets, swings can be purchased in addition to traditional equipment.

Age and gender of the child

When choosing a sports corner, the age of the child is of great importance. For a child under 3 years old, a high wall bars or rings are not only of no interest, but can also cause injury. In the configuration, it is best to choose houses with a certain set of inventory: a low ladder, a trapezoid, if the size of the room allows – a slide.

There are options for installing transformable sports corners with variable height elements that will “grow” with the baby.

For older children, you can additionally add to the standard options: a climbing wall (climbing wall), nets along the walls, suspended stairs.

The selection of components for a sports corner focused on a boy and a girl is very similar. Depending on the style and gender of the child, you can replace the pear with a swing or hammock, a rope for a rope ladder.

Materials for the manufacture of sports corners

Wooden walls fit into most classic interiors. Wooden structures are better suited for younger children. They are environmentally friendly, the surface is pleasant to touch, unlike metal, wood is always warm.

Metal sports corners are more often used in modern-style interiors. Most of them intended for older children. In games in such corners, adults can also join them (the minimum weight that such shells can withstand is 120 kg).

Indoor-style sports corner decoration

A children’s room is a separate bright and colorful world, the design of which sets a specific theme and color scheme. The sports corner should also fit into the overall design idea..

Space.The overall color ranges from dark blue to light blue, simulating a night starry sky. An obligatory element is the fragments of a spaceship, which can become a sports corner. The complete set is not limited, preference is given to Swedish walls, horizontal bars, rings. Ladders and steps with slides remain a priority for young children.

Pirates.The color range is from light blue to pearl gray with the obligatory fragments of natural wood in dark tones. Wooden sports equipment is becoming the most ambitious decoration, this is “ship tackle” – ropes, numerous nets, rope ladders. Instead of a house, a fragment of the ship’s side can be made, on which children will climb with great pleasure.

Jungle.The design of such a nursery is as environmentally friendly as possible, the materials are natural, the colors are natural, bright. The sports structure can be either wooden or metal, but parts of it must be painted in accordance with the color scheme of the room. This solution allows you to create an integral spatial ensemble.

Nautical.Unlike the pirate style, it can turn a children’s room not into a brig, but into a respectable liner with a lot of metal parts. An excellent addition to this solution will be a sports corner with an abundance of rope ladders and ropes. Fragments can be painted in the basic colors of the room: blue, light blue, white or gray.

Fairy tale characters.In such a nursery, the scope for imagination is not limited – it all depends on the chosen work, film or cartoon on which the stylization is performed. It is characterized by the use of structures in the color of natural wood (to draw attention to the color of the walls and the general idea of ​​the interior), or bright crossbars, which will complete the overall style of the composition.

Princess bedroommost often airy, pale pink, beige, white, maybe with golden hues. A sports corner for such a room can turn into a castle with stairs, different levels, windows, slides. A natural or white wood design will look best. Decorative facades are required to cover the fasteners.

Constructive solutions for sports corners

When designing a sports corner, it is also important to take into account the design features of the product, so the sports slide can be attached:

1. To the walls.
2. To the floor.
3. To the floor and ceiling. Spacer design, the advantages of which are expressed in the following points:
   • the installation process is less laborious;
   • possible rearrangement in the room as needed;
   • installation can be performed not only along the wall, but also in the center of the room, providing the child with ease of use.

Requirements for supporting structures

The height of the ceiling for the installation of the metal sports complex vspor should be from 2.35 to 3.5 m.Adjustment is made by extending the adjusting rack.

For wooden complexes, when installing raspor, the ceiling height should not exceed 2.7 m.The minimum height can be any – adjustment is made by cutting the height of the racks.

Concrete floor slabs are an excellent basis for fastening sports equipment to the spine.

Fixing equipment to walls assumes that the wall material is concrete or brick. If the house is made of a bar or rounded log, you should use special self-tapping screws for wood.

If the partitions are made of plasterboard, the corner is attached only to the spur.

It is better to lay additional mortgages in partitions and walls made of cellular concrete (for example, wooden beams).

Features of installing sports corners

If stretch ceilings are installed in the room, then the sports corner is mounted exclusively to the walls.

If there is a drywall sheet in the room:

1. At the stage of repair, embedded from a board, a sheet of plywood or a wooden beam are fixed to the metal guides of the plasterboard ceiling.
2. In the finished plasterboard ceiling, holes are cut out for sports equipment, and the wall is installed with a stand with an emphasis on the floor slab.
3. For T-shaped and U-shaped structures, installation in a plasterboard ceiling is possible, and only on condition: the step of the guides in the ceiling does not exceed 500 mm.

If the walls are aligned with plasterboard sheets, the fixing is carried out into the main wall using long anchors.

There are no strict requirements for the flooring, but in order not to spoil the finish coating of the floor and ceiling when installing the structure of the raspor, it is appropriate to use additional gaskets under rubber or plastic stops. Such gaskets can be made independently by cutting them out of carpet or linoleum.

Safety in the use of children’s sports corners

When choosing and using a sports corner, safety is at the forefront. Remember the basic rules of operation, because the life and health of your child depends on them:

1. When buying a sports corner, remember that the products must be certified.
2. The sports corner must be used without exceeding the specified indicators. It is better to install equipment with a reserve of weight so that it can be used by two or more children or adults.
3. After installing the sports corner, check the quality of installation of all elements (handrails and crossbars) for burrs with which a child can splinter their hands.
4. If the kit includes plugs for any protruding parts of the structure, they must be installed.
5. The reliability of the fastening must be checked 2-3 times a year..
6. When installing the sports corner, make sure that there are no pieces of furniture, toys and equipment with hard walls and sharp corners nearby. Free space required within a radius of 1 m from the sports corner.
7. The floor covering around the sports area must be covered with gym mats. If this is not possible, you can use a rubberized coating for sports fields (it is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use). It is possible to use carpet with sufficient pile height.
8. When two or more children are in the sports area, make sure that the kids do not use the same equipment at the same time, do not push or try to throw each other off the crossbar or wall bars. If there is no opportunity to be near, explain to the child the rules of behavior on the apparatus.