Our dining room table, sans dining room. No place for plates and cups.I've heard several mums remark that they don't read other mums' blogs because they just get miserable seeing those harmonious, tidy interiors.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to become an interior designer. I read interior design magazines all the time. And books. I have a picture in my head of what our home should look like. It never does. There's no money to buy new furniture. There's no money for shabby chic vases and wire baskets even.
Our flat is quite small. There're two adults working here, while one toddler spends his days here. In magazines, they always have cool, organized home offices:
From Living EtcWhereas in reality I work on my bed, Carrie Bradshaw -style. I've read in magazines that you can organize all those tangles of electric wire with these plastic tubes. I think it just made it worse...
Last night my older son made "a home office" for his 18-month old brother. It's much tidier than mine!
My children are extremely clever in making a mess. No, this is NOT their room, it's, er, a piece of comtemporary sculpture in an art gallery:
"Life" by Giancarlo di Battista (100 000 euros). Medium: chopped green chalk, lego blocks, parquet blocks, wooden cubes, paper, dust and sand.I wish they had more flats like this in magazines:
A flat in Chinatown/San Francisco from DwellThis is my ultimate dream. A large enough flat to ride tricycles in:
Same flat/DwellInstead, interior design mags seem to love this sort of style. White sofas, white rugs, white floors, white walls. Naturally it's easy to make a flat look cool if there're not a billion pieces of legos there. Or dogs, cats or children.
Living EtcOf course, it's wrong to accuse your children, when you know how to make a mess yourself. But in a small flat, there's just not enough space for everything!
My gym ball, husband's lute, sacks of "important" papers waiting to be organized.I often think that if we were the type of people who don't read, craft, build, sew, play instruments, or excercise at home, it would be much simpler to have a tidy home! But then again, if there was no one living in our flat, it would be very tidy! I wish I could just let go of my idealized images of a flat with a perfect feng shui, I wish I knew how to stop stressing about mess, because we won't ever have a bigger flat and our children will never learn not to spread their possessions everywhere. I wish I knew how to stop having mini-breakdowns every once in a while, because of the chaos!
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Älä ressaa! Mitenkäs se eräs pesuainemainoksen slogan meni:"Lika kertoo elämästä" tms. Niinpä täällä meillä (neulovan&virkkaavan&askartelevan&opiskelevan äidin, nettivelhoisän ja kahden taiteellisia taipumuksiaan ahkerasti toteuttavan pienen tytön kodissa) katson kaaoksen keskellä ympärilleni, kohautan hartioita, ja ajattelen, että kyllä ne ovat ympäriinsä lojuvat värikynät, lankakerät ja tietokonepiuhat jotka tekevät kodin. Ei valkoiset sohvat ja kukka-asetelmat, sanoo Martha mitä tahtoo.
Juu, ymmärrän. Inhoan siivoamista, mutta silti irvistelen sotkulle. Nyt vaan kummastelen kovasti, miksi meillä oli sotkuista myös silloin, kun meillä ei ollut 1-vuotiasta? Nykyään huomaan mutisevani kaikille tyttöjen kavereille, että ai kauheeta mikä kaaos, se on toi kun on pikkuinen perheessä. Samalla vain mietin, että on se kumma, kun kotiäidillä ei ole aikaa siivota. Mutta oikeasti, minulla on paljon hauskempaakin tekemistä!
I am right there with you! You can't get away from all of the little messes in a small home too... We have piles of books toppling everywhere and it's hard to eat dinner for the collection on the table (which is in the kitchen and the living room because it's all one thing). Much more important to lead a creative life than to have a clean home though, right?!
Kiva kun piipahdit :)
Voi kuinka herkullisia kuvia ja juttuja blogisi on pullollaan. Täällä on vierailtava jatkossakin!
Minäkin haluaisin että meillä olisi aina siistiä, mutta joskus se on niin vaikeaa, niin vaikeaa saavuttaa. Kuopuksen lempileikki on kasata kaikki olohuoneen sohvatyynyt yhdeksi kasaksi ja leikkiä että se on uimahyppypaikka. Sitten kerään ne paikoilleen, ja kohta ne on taas kasattu uimahyppypaikaksi. Ja joka paikassa on miljoona kirjaa ja sarjakuvakirjaa levällään. Mutta toisaalta, olisi ehkä aika ankeaa jos niitä ei olisi...
I'm nodding my head vigorously :o)
Those magazines are so unrealistic (but I still love looking at them and dreaming). Yes If I had more space, and more time, and more money, and no children, and just sat looking pretty on the couch all day my house could maybe look like those mags.
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