The Coral Joy

A pastel room with a bunk, a slide, a study zone and grow-with-me storage - designed to grow with a 10-year-old.

The brief

A room a ten-year-old could call entirely her own.

The family wanted a bedroom that felt joyful without being loud - somewhere their daughter could sleep, study and play, and still feel right in a few years' time. Colour was welcome, but they didn't want a theme she'd outgrow by the next birthday.

The challenge

Fit a whole world into a modest footprint.

Sleep, study, storage and room to play all had to live in one compact space - with the fun of a slide the daughter had asked for, minus the clutter and hard edges that usually come with it. Every square foot had to earn a second job.

Design response

Build up, tuck away, keep it soft.

We stacked sleep over storage in a custom bunk, ran the study desk along the light, and let a gentle slide double as the reason to climb up. A calm pastel base carries a few confident coral moments - so the room reads playful, not busy, and the joy comes from how it works.

Key moves

A few decisions that made the room.

1

A bunk that banks space

Sleeping lofted up top freed the floor below for storage and a reading nook, doubling the room without extending a wall.

2

A slide worth the climb

The slide she asked for became the playful way down - soft-edged, secured, and no wider than the room could spare.

3

A desk in the daylight

The study zone runs along the window so homework happens in natural light, with a pinboard for the things that change every term.

4

Coral as the accent, not the theme

A pastel base does the calming; coral shows up on the handles, the slide and a few soft edges - easy to restyle as she grows.

Designed around the child

A room that fits who she is now - and who she's becoming.

Age: Around 10 years old.
Activities: Sleep, study, play, reading and generous storage - planned as one connected world.
Safety details: Rounded corners throughout, a guard rail on the bunk, secured wall-fixed furniture and soft edges on the slide.
Grow-with-child: Neutral base finishes and a swappable coral accent layer mean the room matures without a full redo.
Sensory mood: Calm and warm, with pockets of play - cheerful without tipping into overstimulation.

Material palette

Pastels, warm wood and one honest coral.

CoralAccent laminate & handles

Blush pastelWall base tone

Birch plyBunk & desk carcass

Soft mintTextiles & trim

Warm whiteCeiling & joinery

The palette keeps most surfaces quiet so the coral can be bold in just a few places - a room that photographs cheerful and lives calm.

Zoning

One room, four jobs, no walls.

Sleep sits lofted in one corner with storage stacked below it; the study runs along the window wall for daylight; and the freed floor becomes an open play-and-read zone that the slide connects back to the bunk. Nothing is boxed off - the whole room reads as a single, easy-to-move-through world.

Custom details

The pieces we made just for this room.

Custom bunk bed with integrated slide in The Coral Joy kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Custom bunk with a soft-edged slide

Daylight study desk with pinboard in The Coral Joy kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Window-side study desk with pinboard

Under-bunk storage drawers with coral handles in The Coral Joy kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Under-bunk storage with coral handles

Gallery

Around the room.

Pastel kids' room interior with coral accents designed by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Custom bunk bed with slide in a children's bedroom by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Daylight study corner in a pastel kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Reading nook under the bunk in The Coral Joy kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Storage drawers with coral handles in a children's bedroom by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

Full view of The Coral Joy pastel kids' room by Frolik+Co in Ahmedabad

"She calls it the best room in the house - and the honest truth is it's the tidiest, because everything finally has a place. The slide was the wish; the storage is the magic."

Parent of the resident - Kids' room, Ahmedabad

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