HOW HAVING KIDS CHANGED OUR HOME

‘As we predicted, the dining space is pure toy mania. We like to call it a “family home”’

Lydia Elder, an interior designer and stylist (homebylydia.co.uk), lives in Kent with husband Peter and their sons, Teddy, four, and Arlo, two

‘I’ve had to give up my interior dreams in favour of my two toddlers! Our home is a new-build and we bought it off-plan before the showroom had even opened. I could visualise exactly what I wanted, and once we did get to the showroom, it was just as I’d imagined – lovely wallpaper and a big open-plan space with a half-wall in the middle. There was room for a large formal