Make Your Luxury Home Kid Friendly
This is especially true when you become a parent. Your life changes, your priorities change, and your home changes along with it. Your luxurious, carefree life suddenly becomes filled with fingerprints, sticky messes, and toys - but with all of that comes a wealth of unconditional love, hugs, laughter, and memories, which makes it all worthwhile!
Luxury Lake Home would like to share with you some tips and ideas for keeping your luxury home stylish and organized in the midst of all the "chaos" of parenthood.
HIDE THE CLUTTER:
Kids and clutter seem to go hand in hand! Your luxury lake home can maintain its stylish appearance by incorporating some decorative storage bins to hide the toys, books, and games that can otherwise take over your space. Storage bins made from materials such as canvas, wood, wire, or metal in colors and patterns that match your overall home decor will prevent clutter from invading your living space while keeping those often used items close at hand.
CHOOSE FABRICS WISELY:
Your luxury lake home is now a safe haven for you and your family. Kids need a place to feel comfortable, and your furniture will be the center of their activities. When picking out furniture, materials like leather and microfiber are great options as they clean up easily and withstand the wear and tear of little feet and hands.
CREATE KID-FRIENDLY AREAS:
Your luxury home should be lived in and open for the whole family to enjoy. However, in order to maintain a sense of style and organization, having designated areas for the kid's activities are a great way to achieve that result. Crafting areas, reading nooks, and media rooms are great for keeping their creative juices flowing, and having a place to showcase their artwork gives them pride and confidence to continue to learn and grow. Just as the kids need their own space, make sure you designate your "adult" space as well to retreat and relax during the course of the day.
COHESIVE FURNISHINGS:
When choosing furniture for the children's rooms, choose items that are functional, but match the overall design of your luxury lake home. Dollhouses, play kitchens, and the like can be stylish in design while still allowing them to play and their imaginations to take over.
KEEP FOOD WHERE IT BELONGS:
As easy as it is to grab a snack and settle on the couch to watch a movie, the sticky messes and stains can be held to a minimum by keeping food in the kitchen or dining areas. While this might be a hard rule to enforce and stick to, the end result will be worth it.
DROP IT:
Having a mud room or a "drop zone" is the perfect way to keep shoes, coats, backpacks, and other "stuff" centrally located, easy to find, and out of the main living areas of your luxury lake home.
We hope these tips will come in handy when designing your luxury lake home to be kid-friendly. If you are in the market for a luxury lake home at the Lake of the Ozarks, we can help! Luxury Lake Home has extensive knowledge of our thriving area and would love to show you what luxury living looks like here at the Lake of the Ozarks. From lakefront homes in the center of all of the activity to homes that are nestled in the serenity of the Ozark hills, we can find a property perfect for you and your family.
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