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It can feel impossible to make your home look stylish when you have small children about the place. Up-turned yogurt pots, a fridge full of crayon drawings, and general mess are the typical indicator of a home that is currently at the mercy of childhood frolics. However, there are still ways of reclaiming that sense of style without hemming in your children’s freedom to have fun and enjoy their family home.
Escape gendered colour traditions
If there’s one sign that flags a traditional abode that’s home to a number of children, it’s splashes of pink and blue everywhere. Whether it’s in their toys, their clothing, or the design of their room, pastel versions of these two colours can instantly create the look of an infant’s playroom. To avoid this kiddy-style look, try and craft an environment that is fun and cosy, but strays away from these colours. For instance, you can browse fun and playful wallpapers that could still be part of your child’s dream bedroom, without looking excessively baby-like.
Keep style in the kitchen
Realistically, your kitchen should not be a play area for your children; after all, that would be dangerous. This means you can keep your children practical and stylish, as it will need to be clean most of the time for basic hygiene. If you often have a highchair in the kitchen, there are stylish and practical ways of keeping it clean. Buying a washable and patterned feeding bib from BIBaDO will help to prevent mess from hitting the floor, as well as looking fun and trendy.
Measure your expectations
If your home was something of a showroom before you had children, you might have to revisit what your definition of ‘stylish’ looks like. Your home will have to take into account your children’s needs and accommodate their sense of fun and exploration. To embrace this new, open-minded approach, you may wish to enlist their help. Getting your children to help you tidy up can help to give you some distance between the process of tidying up. It also helps to establish some ground rules.
When it comes to the methods with which you clean the house, you may want to also re-visit what you consider to be easy and efficient. Your older, chunkier vacuum cleaner may now be impractical. Investing in cleaning products and devices that are nimble and powerful could help you to keep your home looking clean with minimum levels of effort and fatigue.
Whether your living room is now a battle-field full of discarded toys or your children’s untidy bedrooms are the bane of your life, there are still hacks for keeping your home stylish and clean. You may need to temporarily readjust your definition of what ‘tidy’ means, but you can still keep an operational and clean home. Keeping some rooms, such as the kitchen, maturely decorated can help you to feel as if you’ve kept some design integrity.
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