Category: Family Room

  • Setting up a homework area!

    Homework  areas are great for those with large families and if you have the room for an extra table rather than using the dinning one then I highly recommend it. Picture this; 6 kids all sprawled round a kitchen bench top or the dinning table, writing, asking for help, while the 4 yr old tugs on the…

  • Setting the table for a large family

    One can image that dinner time in a large family would be the busiest time of the day. Setting the table is a big task and sometimes difficult.  Little ones love to help, but dishes can be heavy, glasses can be dropped and tablecloths dragged along the ground. Recently a friend of mine put me onto an…

  • Under the Lounge

    I have often wondered how kids manage to stuff things under the lounge. When it comes to cleaning underneath them, it involves pulling the heavy lounges apart (we have a Leather corner/modular unit), and sliding them across the room to vacuum or sweep up the dust, dirt, toys and those rotten mouldy apple cores. (I don’t know how many…