Settling down and raising children is a priority in life. As their children grow up, the lifestyle of many young couples changes. Children spend two thirds of their time at home, so in terms of household consumption, young parents put forward higher requirements for household products such as safety, environmental protection, life and learning functions, educational fun, product quality, etc. Especially in today's high housing prices, more reasonable investment planning for home space, for children to create a suitable growth environment, is not only a problem that many families began to think about, but also an important research topic of Shangpin home matching life research center.
Home Design should follow the "Family Life Cycle"
"Family life cycle" is a concept put forward by American scholars from the perspective of demography. It is believed that a family is a process of gradual construction, and the time experienced from the establishment is the family life cycle. Different life cycle stage, the family's living demand, life style, consumption behavior and family members' physiological and psychological needs are different. Based on the consumer demand shown by big data, Shangpin Homewear Lifestyle Research Institute divides it into five life cycles of "single youth - the world of two people - the birth of a child - the hope of a successful child - the happiness of old age", and carries out targeted home design according to different stages.
Many young couples tend to think only about creating a "world of two" when buying their first home, decorating and purchasing furniture in their favorite style. But since the children, the original "persistent" home style has been diluted, replaced by the "compromise" around the children, such as sacrificing activity space to buy and put children's products, in order to protect the safety of children and everywhere pasted a variety of incongruous anti-collision strips, as well as the ground and the sofa messy toys... Therefore, how to "accompany", "safety" and "receptivity" into the home design, for the family is at this stage is particularly important.
Companionship system: Make companionship more effective
According to a survey conducted by Shangpin Homewear Lifestyle Research Center on 53,863 families with children aged 1-5, 50 percent of parents spend less than 5 hours with their children every week on average due to work pressure and life concepts, and only 20 percent of parents spend less than 5 hours with their children every day. Many parents leave the burden of being with their children to television, electronics, nannies, elders or children's agencies. Since 1-5 years old is the most sensitive to the cognition of things and the most easily interested stage, it is also the golden period for parents to educate their children. If parents can give their children at least 60 minutes of quality company every day, it can not only stimulate children's positive emotions such as self-confidence and love, reduce the negative emotions such as worry and fear, but also cultivate their interpersonal skills and social adaptability, and promote their intellectual development. In this regard, Shangpin Homewear Lifestyle Research Center innovatively put forward the "home companion system", adding details to the home space design for convenient face-to-face communication between parents and children.
The study found that children between the ages of 1 and 5 spend more than 50 percent of their time at home in guest dining rooms. In order to create an exclusive space in the living room suitable for "face-to-face interaction between parents and children", Shangpin House designers took inspiration from children's paintings of Dutch windmills and designed a creative "rotating table" on the storage locker. When the table is closed against the wall, it is merely a shelf; But as long as the countertop is pulled out horizontally, the locker turns into a T-shaped bar, and a multifunctional parent-child interaction space appears in the living room. Here, parents can accompany their children to play with building blocks, draw pictures, read books, do homework... Next to it, a multifunctional wall is specially opened up: a roll of drawing paper is set on a scroll. As long as the drawing paper is pulled out and spread on the table, children can enjoy their creation. After drawing, they can tear it off like toilet paper, and keep the table clean all the time. The shelf above takes into full account the needs of storage, and all kinds of brushes and stationery are placed neatly and orderly, no longer throwing the scene on the ground.
In addition, because the language development of 1-5 years old children is not mature, but they are in the most sensitive stage to color and graphics. Therefore, children always like to express themselves through "painting", so many family walls and cabinets, there will always be a variety of difficult to clean "graffiti". So the designer of Shangpin House cleverly transformed the two doors of the locker into two blackboards. The storage function inside the locker is powerful, no matter how many toys, books can be neatly placed; When the door is closed, it becomes a small world for parents and children to give full play to their creativity. The simple transformation infuses the intellectual interest of parent-child companionship into the locker.
Safety system: improve home safety factor
At present, the children's furniture market often focuses on the shape and color, but ignores the safety of its structure. As children between the ages of 1 and 5 are at the stage of being active and curious, nearly 85% of children in this age group have encountered accidents at home of varying degrees. In this regard, Shangpin home match research and development team in furniture design carefully introduced the "security system", in the corner of the table and cabinet door handle and the most likely to collide with children, using the arc edge, avoid the appearance of edges and corners, small details greatly increase the protection of children.
Some parents consciously cultivate the do-it-yourself habit early in life, but the family is often "fraught with crisis". Children always because they can't reach the items in the cabinet, move to a small bench to climb high and low, not careful will fall on your head. Therefore, the designer deliberately lowered the height of the table, but also added an open children's storage rack on the table, convenient for children to put their own utensils.
Storage system: Cultivate good habits from an early age
There are small children in the home, inevitably will be a variety of children's toys and small debris occupation. Many family living rooms tend to place several large storage boxes for children's toys, causing a waste of space. In order to leave space for children to activity, the coffee table removed and easy to cause the inconvenience of objects placed. In view of the storage problems faced by many families, Shangpin House proposed a multifunctional "storage system", which breaks the conventional drawer and cabinet door storage and adopts the form of storage box, which can not only classify items, but also be more suitable for children's conscious storage. After the change, Shangpin Home Accessories found that under the guidance of parents, the time needed for a child to tidy up 30 items of different sizes was greatly reduced to just one minute.
For example, the sofa for rest and storage, the sofa armrest into a coffee table, convenient to take things and save space, the cushion slightly upward push, inside is a practical storage box, all kinds of sundries can be hidden.
In addition, the shoe cabinet is often the most easy to ignore the needs of children, 90% of the space in the shoe cabinet is almost occupied by parents, children's shoes because there is no exclusive space is often placed under the shoe cabinet, when wearing shoes often squatting and very difficult. To this end, the house has developed a shoe cabinet that can take into account a family of three. The flip-down design of the shoe cabinet not only saves space, small size but oversized capacity. The whole shoe cabinet is neatly divided into three areas, the father area can put 4 pairs of shoes, the mother can put 12 pairs of shoes, the children's exclusive yellow area can put 6 pairs of shoes. Next to the shoe cabinet, there is also a multi-functional yellow bus shaped shoe changing stool, which can be used for both storage and seating, so that children can learn to sit on the shoe changing stool, change their shoes and put them neatly.
With you: young home design system
A safe, relaxing and intimate home environment is a prerequisite for quality living. With reference to nearly 10,000 family research data, Shangpin Home Matching Lifestyle Research Center and its design team have developed and launched the "Walk with You" home series for families with 1-5 year old children, introducing the "young" home design system into the design of different areas such as guest dining room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, etc., not only taking into account the way of adult survival, Moreover, it can solve the life needs of young children from the safety and functionality, and create a more practical and diversified living space for parent-child companionship and children's growth, so that accompanying children is not just a slogan, but a kind of life proposition.
