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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Lara Winter

I'm a neat freak who secretly hates cleaning – these are my sanity-saving tricks for keeping my family home tidy, calm, and guest-ready

Country-style living room with white sofa and yellow chair and lots of cushions.

Home decorator Lara Winter is one of Ideal Home's new Open House contributors, sharing her thoughts on revamping a 200 year old cottage to make it right for modern family life. See the rest of her articles here.

I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of a neat-freak. I can’t stand clutter. Random junk with no home? Instant rage. Those tiny plastic toys that appear out of nowhere and disappear just as fast? Straight in the bin. If you follow my home on Instagram, what you see is more or less real. I’m not staging scenes or hiding mountains of stuff off-camera.

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