Back to School: Study Spaces at Home
Autumn is here, marking the end of the long and relaxing summer vacation for students. With the reopening of schools, an exciting and hopeful period begins for students, teachers and families. With rested and refreshed minds brought by the vacation, the doors to the new academic year are opening.
The back-to-school period brings a range of emotions for both children and parents. As children try to adjust to school after the relaxation of summer vacation, parents do their best to ensure an efficient progress of their children's education, character development, social skills and preparation for the future. Every parent wants the best for their children and prioritizes their comfort and convenience. They prefer the perfect children's and youth rooms to ensure that their children achieve in their lessons. With their colorful and stylish options, Kastamonu Entegre's decorative panels accompany the original, elegant and distraction-preventing table, shelf, wardrobe, separator and bookcase designs by interior architects and furniture manufacturers.
Do Children Need Their Own Workspaces?
Children can study happily and productively at the dining table in the kitchen or living room, but you may find that this changes as they get older. There are clear advantages to providing children with a hygienic, dedicated workspace with furniture made from wood panels and MDF boards designed for them:
1-Promotes Good Posture
A dedicated space with a desk and chair made of MDF sheets and wood panels customized with color and pattern finishes will help your child develop good posture at an early age. More importantly, it will help prevent them from developing bad posture habits, such as slouching or stooping, which can cause serious posture problems when they grow up. Desks made of MDF sheets and wood panels with simple and non-eye-straining finishes allow children to study at home without distraction, fully focused just like at school. The height of the table and chair should be chosen based on the height and age of the child.
2-Helps Minimize Distractions
When it comes to homework and studying, many children are easily distracted. Along with the table and chair, it is important that furniture such as wardrobes, dressers and bedsteads made of MDF sheets and wood panels are in calming and simple colors and patterns suitable for the child's age to enhance study efficiency.
3-Creates Extra Storage Space
A specially designed desk using MDF sheets and wood panels will also provide extra storage space for all your child's needs. Having special compartments in the desk to store pencils, notebooks and other course materials is a good opportunity to instill orderliness in your child at an early age. Decorative shelves produced using MDF sheets and wood panels make it possible to store and display items such as books and hobby objects by saving space. Kastamonu Entegre’s Mattplus decorative panel series provides perfect distribution of reflected light thanks to Excimer technology, and the resulting high quality surfaces emphasize the impressive mattness with their natural appearance. In addition to the soft touch tactile sensation, decorative wood panels with high fingerprint resistance and easy cleaning feature help children to study without distraction with their matte surfaces.
Workspace and Hygiene
Safe Surface panels developed by Kastamonu Entegre using pioneering and cutting-edge technologies are the first in Turkey with their surfaces effective against both bacteria and viruses. Melamine-faced panel surfaces produced using surface technology effective against viruses and bacteria can be safely used in storage and study areas such as tables, shelves and wardrobes in your children's rooms. They can also be safely used in public areas that are important for public health, such as sports halls and schools, where children and young people are together. Safe Surface melamine-faced panels are 99.9% effective against viruses and bacteria that come into contact with their surfaces.
At What Age Do Children Need a Study Space?
It is entirely up to the family to decide at what age to provide study space for children. Even at pre-school age, children may be assigned activities by their teachers that they can do at home. For this reason, it is important, sooner or later, to at least have an area where they can do activities such as cutting, coloring and gluing. While many families initially make their children use a kitchen or dining table for these activities, they prefer to buy a desk made of MDF sheets and wood panels due to the marks forming on the dining table over time.
The earlier your child starts using a desk that is ergonomically designed for their age, the more likely they are to develop good postural habits. A good quality children's desk can be adjusted for different ages and height ranges. This means that as your child grows, you will need to adjust the height of their desk, which is specially designed using MDF sheets and wood panels.
What Do Children Need for a Study Space?
Desks Made of MDF Sheets and Wood Panels
As the centerpiece of any workspace, the desk is the most important part of your children's study setup. Choosing a height-adjustable desk designed using ergonomically designed MDF sheets and wood panels will allow you to adjust it to your child's height as he/she grows and will save you from additional costs such as buying a new desk.
Chair
Just as with a desk, providing an ergonomic chair is essential for your child's health and productivity. When choosing a chair for your child, you should make sure that it not only has supportive features, but also has a structure that allows them to move around easily. An ergonomic chair protects the health of your child's spine, encourages correct posture and minimizes discomfort during prolonged sitting. In addition, features such as adjustable height and back support make the chair adaptable as your child grows. This way, your child can stay in a comfortable sitting position and concentrate better while studying or using the computer. Choosing an ergonomic chair is an essential part of your child's study environment not only to maintain physical health, but also to support academic success.
The flooring must be scratch resistant. You can safely choose Kastamonu Entegre's Floorpan laminate flooring models, which stand out with their easy cleanability, scratch resistance and hygiene plus feature, in your child's room as well as in your entire home.
Shelves
Placing shelves in your children's study space will give them easy access to their books and notebooks. It will also allow you to combine the look of your child's study space with stylish designs in harmony. For shelf design, Kastamonu Entegre's Vision series products add naturalness to your study space and reduce your decoration costs by maintaining its first-day appearance for many years with its high resistance to micro scratches and fading. In addition, their easy-to-clean feature results in no loss of brightness on the surfaces due to cleaning, setting the trends.
Should I Put the Desk in My Child's Room?
Children all have unique characteristics. At different ages, their reactions to different stimuli may vary. If your child is young and not yet proficient in studying alone or in basic motor skills, such as cutting and pasting, it is helpful to place the desk in an area where they can easily see you and feel safe, such as the living room. If, however, your child is a little older and you feel that it is time for them to take responsibility for themselves, it would be more appropriate to place the desk in their own room. Your child and their personality traits will determine where the desk is to be placed. It is up to you to decide what is best at this point.
Which part of the room should the desk be placed in?
The position of your child's desk is important for them to concentrate well on their studies. An average child's room is full of potentially distracting objects such as toys and hobby items. Designate the study area to be well-lit and away from distractions. If you have a child who is easily distracted, it can also help to choose a location away from the window, as your child may be distracted by thoughts of playing in the garden instead of studying.
Make sure that the desk has natural light. As your child gets older, he or she may sometimes need to study in the evening, so don't neglect a good desk lamp.
The best study spaces aim to minimize distractions and help your child focus their attention on their studies. Today, with the rapid development of technology, there are so many distractions in the home that it can be a real challenge to get your children's attention away from them to calm down and complete their homework.
Consider a Reading Corner
To enrich your child's imagination outside the classroom and help them develop the habit of reading regularly, you may want to provide a quiet space for them to read books alongside their desk. You can designate any corner of the home as a reading area for your child and yourself.
On our website, you can check Kastamonu Entegre's panel and flooring products that you can use in the study spaces you will design to make the educational lives of your children, our most valuable assets, more qualified and development-oriented.
