Keeping your hectic home stylish and family friendly

(ARA) - For busy families, finding ways to keep the home fresh, decorative and family-friendly can be a challenge. But there are ways to keep your home organized without sacrificing style and beauty in an active household, including stylish home fragrances to enhance the scent experience and ambiance of any room in your home.

With a little thought and creativity, it's possible to create a home environment that allows your little ones to roam and play while providing a stylish living space for you and your guests. Home can be a fun place for children without looking like a preschool classroom.

Television personality Brooke Burke is a busy mother of four and co-CEO of the online community for the woman behind the mom, ModernMom.com. As such, Burke knows a few things about balancing safety and style and has the following helpful tips for keeping your home child-friendly:

* Give your children their own space. Have a playroom where they can have fun and play with their toys. By creating cubbies, kids will have an area to call their own and to store their toys, while keeping the rest of the room and house clear of them (and keeping parents' or the baby sitter's clean-up routines to a minimum).

* Keep colors and patterns in mind when decorating a family room or child's play area. There are plenty of visually-appealing patterns and attractive colors that will also hide dirt, stains and handprints.

* Besides the colors used in decorating, think about the types of surfaces you use for your home decor. Spills will be easier to clean on smooth surfaces than they will on carpet. Apply the same logic when thinking about what type of upholstery you choose for your furniture. There's no reason something that defends against stains can't look good. If you're concerned about having soft floors to protect your kids when they fall, decorative rugs make for appealing decoration and easy clean-up.

* In addition to appearances, how your home smells is also big part of its character. Febreze has introduced its Home Collection of premium, scented decor items that can accent and add modern, contemporary designs to any room in the home. One of Burke's favorites is the Febreze No Spill Wood Diffuser, a new take on the typical reed diffuser that boasts a spill-free design so moms don't have to worry about spills.

* Teaching your children organizational skills will also help them learn how to keep the house tidy. You can help achieve this by keeping a family calendar so your children can keep track of both their activities and yours. A family bulletin board which notes important events or instructions for household chores is also useful.

For more tips from Burke, visit www.facebook.com/febreze or Febreze TV at www.youtube.com/user/FebrezeTV for her videos on how to create family-friendly decor in your home.

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