Exactly. Or the lego? The games? This is the perfect example of the "musefication" of Instagram. It's literally a show room. No sense of life or energy.
It’s spooky because we’ve been having these discussions this week funnily, we’ve just started buying bits for the baby’s room (delayed cos if lockdown & our guilt over non essential purchasing).
Both sides of neighbours have kids but their gardens couldn’t be any more different - left side have an insta friendly perfect show garden, the kids have mini outhouses painted in F&B pastels with wooden engraved custom signs off Etsy, in an immaculate garden the dad does the corners of the lawn with one of those strimmers
Only garden toy is this weird water thing that looks like it’s from the science museum. The house of horrors could use their garden for pictures cos theirs still has bathroom gear in it doesn’t it?
Right side have 2 huge trampolines (they don’t match and one is neon orange) a huge blow up paddling pool, hideous West Ham coloured goal, patches of lawn missing from excessive football kicking, darts board, must be ten different tatty balls all bright ugly colours and some are stuck on the garage roof.
All you can ever hear from right side are kids laughing & playing, it is so cute tbh. They’re sociable and funny (& well behaved) and they’ll always shout hello HTRIA19 over the fence or if I’m chatting to their mum join in. They’re confident and happy kids, but they’ve been allowed to be by the environment their parents have created both inside & outside the house? Their mum is always moaning her gardens a shitheap cos of the kids but its purpose is bigger than that??
Lockdown summer has defs made me entirely reconsider my approach to such things as I’m definitely a snob who’d be more “left side” / Instagram curated by default, but if you stop and think about it you realise - what is the point? You want kids who’re enjoyable & interesting with a bit of sass, not ones that boringly comply with your Montessori John Lewis wooden aspirations?!!