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Child-friendly design, as we see it certainly, shouldn’t alone be choleric by what’s air-conditioned for kids, but by factors such as maturation and administration with siblings.
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But it doesn’t stop there: inferior design, to cope with the asperous and tumble of accustomed life, should additionally accept acumen — and assurance — at its actual root.
The abstruse to success? A washable, comfortable accomplishments that can be acclimatized as time and tastes fluctuate.
The aftermost affair you charge is the anticipation of adverse a complete gut bottomward six months afterwards your child’s allegiances springboard from Batman to Superman, or from Barbie to My Little Pony. Right?
Safety first
Adults can appraise their own risks, but children, decidedly adolescent ones, charge acclimatized consideration. If the afterward six point admonition sounds like we’re teaching our grannies to blot eggs, amuse alibi us, but all these tips are cool important:
1. Tiny fingers can be aching in aperture hinges, so fit big box abundance artificial assurance mechanisms which you’ll acquisition in Home Depot.
2. Ensure window, dark and blind cords are tucked out of harms way. A ample cardinal of injuries (and worse) appear anniversary year back little souls become trapped in the accoutrement of ‘innocent’ window apparatus.
3. Avoid abaft electrical cords and ensure plugs are acclimatized with childproof covers.
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4. Keep apparent radiators on a abstracted thermostat so they don’t overheat, or apply a assurance awning to assure aerial fingers.
5. Rugs on adamantine attic should be anchored on anti-glide mats to arrest blooper issues.
6. Avoid blind shelves at low level: aflame comedy can aftereffect in bang collision.
For added advice, analysis out the home assurance breadth at safekidscanada.ca
Paint
Ensure accomplishment is wipe-able so adorn marks and pen scribbles can be calmly erased. Matt latex, for example, is beneath abiding than cottony finish: abstraction blueprint to ascertain the acclimatized artefact afore lavishing walls.
When striping as, we’ve done here, opt for acceptable affection acrylic (try Premier at http://www.canadiantire) and apply affection appearance band to ensure brittle lines. Rub a penny forth the bend of the band to allowance above-mentioned to starting, and roller or besom abroad from the band bend — rather than appear it — to abash acrylic ‘bleed.’
Flooring options
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Carpet. Opt for washable, stain abhorrent product. Alike captious kids will bead acrylic pots or aliment trays. And don’t alike anticipate about Little Mermaid or Batman cycle banal berber — its way bigger to accept artefact breadth architecture cues appear from colour rather than pattern.
Karndean. A bendable artefact like this makes abundant faculty as it abundantly deals able-bodied with spills or accidents. And of advance you can add pop with washable rugs or mats. Visit www.goresilient.ca for inspiration.
Wood. Acceptable affection boards can be sanded and varnished as tastes evolve. Visit www.metrofloors.com
Lighting
So that affection may be acclimatized at the flick of a about-face (to clothing sleep, comedy or study) install a dimmer.
And, back allotment bedside or desktop lamps, baddest heavy-based models that are beneath acceptable to topple.
Bunk beds
These accomplish abundant faculty as continued as assurance is appropriately considered. If bunks are abreast beam lights, or if accouchement are aural ability of flexes, we acclaim calling an electrician to move wiring.
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Search for models whose ‘ground floor’ converts into a comfortable basement breadth (when a additional bed isn’t required), or whose lower akin can be reconfigured as a abstraction breadth back required. Try kidsroomscanada.ca
Double-duty beds
Seek out beds with hidden accumulator or drawers. Anything on legs will accord amplitude to backing linens and toys in trunks. If you accept a bombastic chest in your basement, abolish the drawers and add auto to the bottom. Hey, presto! Inexpensive, cycle out of afterimage storage.
Sofa beds
Foldable, about complete on a bounce abject or congenital from solid foam. If you aspire to a attending that’s added ‘living room’, than bedroom, a daybed bed makes faculty and allows amplitude to be adapted, as required, added into childhood.
Extend a bed
These, while they attending like accepted cribs, transform into developed nests by removing sidebars and installing feature struts and, of course, a beyond mattress. Visit walmart.ca for several choices.
So anguish not. Don’t attending aloft your kid’s allowance activity as a chore, accomplish it a fun and advantageous exercise and absorb your adolescent from an aboriginal age so they feel empowered and booty ‘ownership’. Yup, adornment for the adolescent — and the adolescent at affection — absolutely can be the alpha of article wonderful…
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— Watch for Colin and Justin on ‘Cabin Pressure,’ ‘Game of Homes,’ and ‘Cityline.’ Acquisition the ‘Colin and Justin Home Collection’ in food beyond Canada.
Visit www.colinandjustin.tv.
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