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Whether you’re looking for living room furnishing ideas, browsing for your next vintage find, or DIYing moodboards, consider this blog your new home for design inspiration – doors always open.
The Perfect Welcome: 5 Tips to Entryway Mastery
Nothing beats the perfect welcome.
Whether to greet us to a strange new destination or a return home, first impressions are the bedrock of what we feel. Everything that comes after a first impression relates to what we first felt.
From Junk to Joy: 3 Easy Ways to Declutter
I find there’s one certain truth about everyday home life that never fails, “Our room reflects the way we feel.”
If your room feels sterile and like a dinner party you wouldn’t be invited to—you need to find more character and add plants. If you feel restless, normalize the color palette (and again add plants).
But the most common problem we all deal with is clutter—the secret great trend of 2024: having too much stuff and tripping over it.
Clutter can infect out moods in so many subtle ways: from feeling defeated by the overwhelming amount of laundry to do, depressed over a forgotten picture of a former girl or boyfriend, or even just distracted by too many tasks.
Thankfully, wherever you’re at in your declutter journey, you’re right on time. Whether you’re in the USA doing “Spring Cleaning” or as far as Japan, ready for 大掃除 (oosouji), it’s time to change where you live and make home, happy.
Keep reading for 3 tips to help you declutter in 2024.
3 Feng Shui Spring Tips to Perfect Your Home
Right now we’re exiting the quiet cold of winter and are entering a new season of warmth, growth, and renewal—spring!
This is the time to declutter and expand your possibilities in home design. After the preparatory spring cleaning is done, find ways to invite new Yang energy into your home.
Spring is such an exciting season because all your resolutions start to burst forth like a rainbow of flowers. Make your house the place to let forth the best you bloom this spring with these tips!
Let’s find out about these 3 tips for spring!
What is Mid Century vs. Mid Century Modern?
Probably the single biggest design label mistake made by many is the difference between Mid Century and Mid Century Modern.
Currently, Mid Century Modern has made a big renaissance in popularity thanks to shows like Mad Men and our houses have made subtle changes to resemble those cool 60s powerhouse boardrooms. Many people use the terms “Mid Century” and Mid Century Modern” pretty interchangeably when the actual difference is huge.
When out shopping for your home, knowledge is power.
So let’s go get the knowledge!
5 Easy DIY “Unexpected Red Theory” Hacks
What color excites us more than a big dose of vitamin RED? It’s bold. It’s energetic. It’s a statement. This Valentine’s Day is the right time to “Unexpected Red Theory” up your life. Give your home interior a new kiss.
Right now, Unexpected Red Theory is blowing through TikTok, as people discover the joys of putting an unexpected bright red piece of furniture, paint, or an object to transform the character of a room.
So what is #UnexpectedRedTheory? Keep reading to find out!
5 Wrong Shoe Theory Ideas for Home Design
You’re stuck looking out at your living room with your perfect wall, perfect art, nice carpet, lovely couch, and you hate it. You feel you’ve got perfection, but you’re a long way from style.
Style is excitement.
If you’re not excited, you’re not stylish, because you’re not feeling truly you.
If you haven’t seen fashion stylist Allison Bornstein’s TikTok videos on “Wrong Shoe Theory”, they’re a great way to refresh your design thinking.
So what’s the “Wrong Shoe Theory”? Let’s dive in…