Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Why are the majority of interior magazines, so achingly middle class?  Perfect houses in idyllic areas, housing perfect couples with amazing careers with 2-3 perfect children. Extending double the size of the existing house because there just isn't enough space.  A bathroom per person and that includes per child.  Does a toddler really need their own bathroom?  The photos that always make me want to pull my hair out are the ones where the children are quietly reading or playing their instruments in their tidy bedrooms, with absolutely no sign of plastic toys or messily hung up posters or clothes or toys strewn all over the place. Questions I would like answered.  Where are they housing the giant flat screens, the console games and the gargantuan amount of wires and chargers that have taken over everyones lives?  Just once in a while, it would be refreshing if we saw a family in a rougher area where the parents work as a driver (and I don't mean a chauffeur) and a dinner lady (I know they are no longer called that but hey, I am of the era when they were) because they want to provide for their kids.  Little money doesn't mean a life of Jeremy Kyle and it certainly doesn't mean no style.  Just because they do not have a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a coffee table, doesn't mean they are incapable of vision, are not creative or don't care about their surroundings.  It particularly doesn't mean that we are less interested in seeing how they put things together compared to people with more money.

1 comment:

  1. because they are showing a snapshot. stop buying them!! i hated the feeling i got when i could never aspire to these perfect places of domesticity so i haven't bought them for years. to me it is showing off and you are right, how many council house tenants do they visit?! the one that used to make me mad was masterchef when lloyd gross hosted it.complete with perfect families who rode horses and went for country walks. such pompousness! drives me mad!

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