Child friendly home tips designed for the whole family. This market insight offers five very helpful ideas that can make your home a safer place when parenting a younger family.
From safety, supervision and non-smear surfaces to play spaces that can grow with your family, there is plenty to consider if you want to make your home suitable.
Here are some child friendly home tips that will help you in advance.
1. Open floorplans are great
An open floor plan has been trending for many years. It improves lots of natural light, and offers you a spacious multifunctional area for families. As a parent, you can also keep a more watchful eye on things as they play in front of you while you are browsing your television or cooking dinner.
The open floor plan also allows you to design your interior just the way you want. It may also extend to an outdoor deck where the kids can also be easily heard when enjoying some sun outside.
We have found that its great to have a second living room to compliment the open floor plan. As there are no internal walls separating the open floor plan, the second living room can become a retreat from the hustle and bustle of a busy home.
2. Reduce the clutter in your kitchen
It’s no doubt, the kitchen has become the centre piece of a family home. It is actually the most used space in a home. To reduce the clutter, you want to design a kitchen that provides a lot of storage. You want space for a double fridge, and soft close cupboards so the children have less chance of jamming their fingers. Some families place child locks to the cupboards while they are at toddler age, but you can’t have enough cupboards. The walk in pantry has become a widely popular extra that is very effective in reducing clutter too.
A kitchen island bench is the most recommended addition to a modern kitchen. It creates more bench space for cooking, school homework or even entertaining. The dishwasher and sinks are also well placed in the kitchen island bench allowing you to have a large cooking solve and oven along the wall.
3. The under-rated laundry
When having a family of any age, the laundry gets overused to keep everyone’s clothing, bedwear and bathroom items clean. From school clothing to sports uniforms and casual gear, you will constantly be washing!
A functional, efficient and well-equipped laundry will lighten the load and make you life easier. Some bench space and cupboards will help immensely. Keeping the ‘non-kid friendly’ items away is also ideal. It can be great to keep brooms, mops and ironing boards away from someone tripping over them too.
4. Create a lot of storage
We’ve mentioned creating a lot of storage with the set up of a kitchen and laundry, but you can truly never have enough. With more storage, the home will be cleaner and safer. You may want to consider a larger built-in-robes in the bedrooms, a walk-in-robe for the master bedroom, fixed bookshelves in the living areas, and an extra sized linen press.
As many people are also working from home, a study nook or office can also offer further storage.
5. Source hard-wearing finishes and furnishings
Durability is key when it comes to selecting finishes that will withstand the chaos of everyday life with young kids. This is a person choice, but flooring, window furnishings and other internal finishes can be damaged easily.
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December 2023
