If your hope for a dream family home has been broken by stained sofas and broken tiles, take heart, there is light at the end of your tunnel. Creating a modern space in your home without making your space too ridged for your kids will need some mental adjustments and practical shifts. In this article, we share a few tips to help you do just that.

Rethink how you define “perfect”

Firstly, you need to understand that having a good family home is not only defined by how it looks. It’s also about creating space where your children can feel free and safe, where they can play, have fun, learn and explore their creativity in many uncontrollable ways.

Most design experts like those at PureModern cry a little when they realize that a home is not a showpiece. It’s actually a space that is lived-in. So it will help you to acknowledge that levels of clutter and spills are unavoidable in the event of “life happening”. 

But that said, the spaces we live in, deserve some tender love and care, in other words, they need to be visually pleasing and useful at the same time. If for instance, your kids have joyful memories playing in the lounge and painting flowers and dinosaurs on the wall, regardless of the mess they  leave behind, your home will still be serving a significant purpose, even if that purpose is not aesthetic, so it’s okay. 

Differentiate between aspiration and inspiration

Before you get down to business, you need to introspect why you’re looking for an aesthetically pleasing home, do you want to impress your friends or colleagues? Or does clutter drive you crazy? Or do you enjoy looking at magazines for inspiration because you want something similar?

If it’s the last part, just know that picture you see online and on magazine are styled and photographed by professionals most of the time. This process usually takes many hours in preparation to take the final shot, the last shot is then taken into post-production for enhancement purposes. That being said, getting inspiration from magazines is great but trying to copy the standard for your home can be a little unrealistic. 

Define Shared Zones

A vast majority of homes are zoned already. On a bigger scale, this is performed in “obviously” formed rooms. In other words, the bedroom is an adults-only zone, kiddies rooms are zoned out for younger people, and living “spaces” like the bathroom and kitchen are usually zones that are shared. 

Segmenting these various sections as adults, kids, and spaces that are shared will help in that you will define the rules for each room, this will be the first step you take to bring through some order. For example, you will want to think about if toys are allowed in adult-only zones or are they only welcome in shared zones and kids-only zones. 

All families are different, you’re the only one who really knows what will work and what won’t, so you be the judge.

Now You Try

If you’ve found a way to keep a perfect home and children at the same time, please let the whole world know, share the tips with other parents who are in the same battleground of trying to maintain a modern home without compromising the comfortability of their children.