How to create super-stylish yet family-friendly home interiors

Don't teel you must put off your dream decor just because you have young children. Two Cork designers tell us how they do it

A living room used by all the family is a multi-functional space to play in by day and relax at night.

Is having a chic home something to put on hold while the children are still streaking crayons across walls and walking pasta into the rug, with rogue Lego pieces lying in wait for unsuspecting bare soles?

Not so, according to interior architect Rachel Hobbs, who recently renovated a house for herself, her husband and three children, Rocco, five, Indie, three, and Forrest, one.