Why Every Family Deserves a Beautifully Balanced Home

We talk a lot about the benefits of achieving a healthy work-life balance or a well-balanced diet, but what’s to be said about a beautifully balanced home? How might families lead happier, healthier lives through good interior design and find solutions for their family’s most pressing interior design challenges.

It may not be rocket science, but well thought out, artfully curated interior design can be overwhelming to say the least. Especially with the new baby on the way—or upon discovering how the much sought after promotion at work that brings in the big bucks takes up more free time than anticipated. Maybe it’s the mother-in-law who kinda sorta hates everything you’ve done with your home and (surprise!) is moving in next month to be closer to the grands. Oh, and let’s not forget about how hubby refuses to let go of that oversized brown leather couch (rhymes and is synonymous with “slouch”—incredibly ironic and agonizing, no doubt).

…and yet, here we are. Constantly reordering our must-haves and pivoting when necessary to create happier, healthier, and more balanced homes for our families—oftentimes on the fly and with little direction. Negotiating family life with good interior design can be incredibly complicated, which is why the design(ed) house is so committed to helping busy moms create an interior design strategy by providing solutions that help to maximize your time, space, and energy to do more of what you love and to love up on your tribe.

Balance is a principle of interior design that visually stabilizes a space and ensures that no single element overpowers another. In other words, in order to achieve a more beautifully balanced home we strive for visual harmony through proper floor planning, color selections, stylistic continuity, organization and more. But more importantly, a beautifully balanced home is a way to create a relaxing environment and add unity to the space.

It’s no coincidence that harmony, unity, and stability are the same values we strive for when raising our families too, which is why it makes total sense that professional interior designers seek for this kind of continuity when curating a beautifully balanced home for clients. Every family deserves a beautifully balanced home—here’s why and the benefits:

You Will Spend More Quality Time at Home

If you are able to balance your home effectively, you will undoubtedly be able to lead a more creative and productive household. For example, high functioning closet with appropriate shelving and organizational systems enhances your ability to easily access the items you need and put away the ones you don’t. Having a designated space for your belongings cuts back on the time you spend reorganizing your space in an attempt to make sense of things. Organization is huge and a lack there of means a lower quality of life because you spend more time trying to make your space work opposed to spending time with your family or relaxing alone. Pro tip: add printed labels to bins and boxes for easy access, seamless organization, and a great way to encourage the entire family to understand and incorporate a uniform organizational system.

You Will Sleep Better When Your Environment is Comfortable and Accessible:

Let’s face it—good sleep is hard to come by amid clutter and chaos. During the initial consultation, 67% of our onboarding clients cite bedtime and their morning routines as their LEAST favorite time(s) spent at home. Can you imagine going to bed AND waking up to prepare for the day grumpy? On our discovery calls, we’ve been able to uncover that our disgruntled moms feel this way because they spent too much time organizing and re-negotiating space at bedtime whilst still waking up to and managing the same chaos the next morning during the mad dash out the door for work and school. Thus, with a never-ending cycle of stepping on toys, looking for the right things in the wrong drawer, and essentially trying to make make sense of senseless spatial arrangements and unused floor plans—it’s no wonder why you’re exhausted, mama!

You Will Be Happier and Enjoy Time Spent at Home:

It doesn’t get any better than happiness—because when your house looks good, it feels good too. Fulfilled humans are happy ones and fulfillment requires harmony and balance at home. When our spaces are more organized, we have designated spaces to place things, which means we spend less time sifting through closets, drawers (and under beds) and more time preparing dinner, getting the kids ready for school, or enjoying a glass of wine. Similarly, a balanced home can mean warmer color pallets for cozier spaces and cooler colors for high-use rooms that may need to feel bigger. It could mean a full concept playroom for the kiddos so that the adults can enjoy more of the living room, too. Imagine being confident enough to host a game night or dinner party with friends! Professional interior design planning means leading your family with clarity and intention, which will inevitably result in a more happy, well-balanced home.

Are you ready to transform your house into the beautifully balanced home your family deserves? We’re excited to turn your house into the home of your dreams—let’s schedule a call now to get started!

In essence, a beautifully balanced home is in alignment with your family’s size, personal style, daily routine, and overall vibe—and the key to finding this balance requires a hard look at all of these factors in order to curate the perfect interior design plan and strategy for your home. Whereas the needs of a stay-at-home mom of multiples may be different than those of an in-the-office mama of teenagers, all families will need to constantly negotiate and reevaluate their need for balance at varying stages of life together. We help our clients do this with useful tools and resources that expose the interior design challenges holding you back and craft personalized strategies and design plans to elevate your home to the next level.