5 interior design tips to enjoy (when the kids have stopped destroying your house)
Your kids are barrelling around your home and tearing your finely chosen decor to shreds, and cackling like moustache-twirling villains while they do so.
The living room has been decimated with children’s toys and chewed up Crayola, the hallway is a mass of muddy footprints, the kitchen has more spilled food than a nursery, and the bathroom…well, the less said about the bathroom the better.
These are the perils of having young children, especially when they inevitably mature into toddler tearaways. But there’s a place in the not-so-far-off future when you’ll be able to reclaim the domain of your home.
When your kids calm down and become increasingly independent, then it will be the perfect time to refurbish the long-neglected rooms of your house and enjoy the wonders of interior décor once more.
And when that time comes, you can read this quick guide on simple and effective interior design tips.
Create your own wall hangings
Although the havoc caused by your children was testing, you’ll always miss those times when your kids were young. So it’s time to start holding onto those memories with a gorgeous wall hanging featuring photos of your loved ones.
You can make your own wall hanging with some wiring (Ormiston Wire’s a good place for that), some photo frames and some well-placed tacks. The end result will be a photographic collage of your little ones that’ll help you relive that glorious time whenever you like.
Make a wall the main feature
A ‘feature wall’ is a wall that contains a significantly different design than the other walls in the room. That could mean the wall’s a different colour, or even have a different wallpaper design.
Either way, a feature wall creates a striking counterpoint to the rest of your room, drawing the eye towards it as soon as you enter.
Keep things cosy
Warm colours are the key to relaxation in any home. Flooding your rooms with burgundy, purple, fuchsia and red will make your house feel cosy, even in the chilly climes of winter.
Moreover, these are social colours that are ideal for living rooms, dining areas and kitchens.
Limit your tech
One of the worst modern trends in interior décor is the incorporation of modern tech into the home, like an episode of Black Mirror writ large.
Whether it’s a ridiculously large widescreen telly, a laptop in every room of the house, or a truckload of tablets for each member of your family, too much tech in one household can overwhelm your carefully cultivated taste in interior design.
Make the most of your mirrors
Mirrors are the ideal addition to any room, giving the impression of a larger space and amplifying light from your windows.
But a bog-standard budget mirror simply won’t do. Vie for one with its own sense of quirky style to add a unique sensibility to your space.
