Designing for your lifestyle | Living with Kids & Pets

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode of Dear Alice, we talk about how to have a beautiful home even if you are living with kids or pets. So many people say they’ll wait until their kids are grown up before they will invest in decorating their home they way they really want to. We don't think you have to wait. We talk about what fabrics to choose for your lifestyle from color to composition so it can be forgiving with spills, stains, and pet hair as well as how to maintain and refurbish your furniture. We also address the constant challenge of toy organization. Fabrics on sofas for pets/children 1:06 Fabric Colors that are forgiving of Pet Hair 9:04 Refurbishing Couches and Couch Care 13:17 Storing Toys 27:02 “I think that the most important thing to make sure this [sofa] is forgiving is not to go super dark. It’s like a black car. It doesn’t show dirt well.” 10:30 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:17.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Dear Alice. We are talking about a very much asked
0:28.1	question. I feel like this is a concern of not just a lot of people following us on Instagram that ask a lot but also
0:36.0	our clientele that we're working with and they're always saying how do I make my room look
0:41.5	gorgeous all the time because I have kids and I have pets or we even have friends that are like I'm not investing in anything until these maniacs get older?
0:49.4	I'm gonna laminate the room.
0:51.0	Yeah, totally. You're like no, no, no, you can live with nice things. You don't have to give up your life just because you just because you have children right now or pets right now.
0:59.6	Amen. Yeah, so let's break it down. The first question that we have is from at Natalie
1:05.4	Giselle and it says what kinds of fabrics on sofas do you recommend for
1:10.6	families and pets? Any particular sofa you recommend. So one of the neat
1:16.5	things about buying sofas today or any type of chairs, lounge furniture, beds,
1:21.2	anything is we have so many performance fabrics available on the marketplace.
1:26.0	Almost every one of our upholstery lines has em graded in, which means it's super easy,
1:32.0	it's just hanging on our wall and it's super easy, it's just hanging on our wall
1:33.7	and it's already associated with any of our frames
1:36.6	and they can easily go through them
1:38.4	and choose a kid-proof fabric.
1:40.7	And it's gonna be able to repel water, repel any types of liquids.
1:46.0	It's going to hold up to your pets.
1:49.0	It's just so easy to clean up.
1:51.0	Also, there's sometimes a UV rating that comes with these
1:54.3	fabrics and so if your sofa is in front of a great big window it's not going to
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