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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]again, good for the folks with perfect children.  I don't care how well I hide stuff to write with -my child still somehow finds a way to scribble on her furniture and her walls.  We still have yet to figure out what she used to write on her carpet that is absolutely impervious to stain remover.

I need the non-sneaky non-destructive kid upgrade....[/quote]

This is taking me back to when my kids were in elementary school and we were googling how to get marker off a tv.  In general, they are good kids but that summer there was marker on the tv, the lounge chair mysteriously got broken, the shades were dangling in the basement.  Oh and there were silly putty and slime deals going on at school so even if we didn’t purchase that material (because it’s he&& on furniture) it was still in the house.  I remember telling a co-worker about this thinking I would be past this with kids in early elementary and they were saying how their teenagers had messed up furniture etc.

I would say to OP that you should be prudent about rooms of the house where it makes sense to invest in an expensive piece and what type of furniture.  Rugs, carpets, couches, chairs in den/living room and multi purpose tables where people eat/drink/put stuff down/might do art work are going to be tough to keep pristine so I would go inexpensive.  Master Bedroom, Guest room furniture, dining room furniture have all held up well.  Our side tables with lamps that we got when kids were in elementary school have also held up.  It’s also nice to in the later years to update a room with an eye towards not needing stuff for toddlers and lots of toys.  We redid our basement once kids were in high school and it’s a relaxing space for adults that couldn’t have the same design with toddlers. We have great memories of the IKEA storage drawers, lots of toys, tough material that hid all for the couch, Berber carpet where the kids learned to crawl etc, cheap craft/coffee table with glitter still crusted and lots of scratches etc, everything baby proofed so there were no sharp edges or glass.  It’s a very different design when we aren’t designing for the kids. [/quote]

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