My kids are 2 and 4, and they share a room. Their room looks nothing like this. I wish it could, believe me. But if it did, we could never leave them in it alone (even asleep, because we’d have to be there the minute they woke up).

They would immediately pull down the bed netting. They would climb the shelves under the window and bang on the window (which appears to be on an upper floor, with no child safety bars on that big expanse of glass). The lamp on the window shelves, with the hanging cord at baby-grab-height, would be gone in minutes. They would climb the raingutter bookshelves, and they would climb onto the dollhouse table to reach things on the mantel and the clothes hanging on the wall. They would pinch fingers in the folding TV-tray table (we know — we have similar tables). They’d fight over who could get into the sewing cabinet (more big expanses of glass!). They would open the dresser drawers, pinch fingers in them, and climb up the open drawers (is that dresser anchored to the wall?).

I don’t think my kids are unusually unruly. They are strong active curious kids, and like to explore their world. I don’t believe that their bedroom should be a place full of don’t-touch-that.