Making Your Home a Reflection of You (Episode #109)
I love the topic of this week’s podcast: Making Your Home the Reflection of You. We get to hear from two awesome designers about how we can love the home we live in. They are giving us the best indoor, outdoor and budget friendly tips for staging our homes to sell and designing our homes to dwell.
Meet Danielle Barrett and Rainie Graham from LD Design Co. Danielle and Rainie share tips they give their clients and give us some glimpses of things that have worked for them in their own homes. One of my favorite parts of the chat was when Rainie made the comment that we need to stop trying to pattern our homes after our friends or people we follow on social media. We should be decorating our homes in a style that represents us. We should be surrounding ourselves with items that spark joy, instead of comparing our possessions to others.
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Show Notes:
Ld design co’s giveaway!! $50 Gift Card to Lowe’s!
How to enter:
Follow @LDdesignCo and @HelpingOfHappiness on Instagram.
Do a simple home project such as cleaning out a drawer, repairing a broken item, painting a piece of furniture or a room, making a throw pillow.
Post a before and after picture in your feed or story and tag @LDdesignCo and @HelpingOfHappiness and use hashtag #LoveTheHomeYouLiveIn.
You can enter as many times as you want! Keep the projects coming! Our whole purpose in doing this is to encourage and inspire each other to better our homes. Let’s cheer each other on!!
Where to start outdoors when you are staging to sell or designing to dwell:
clean out flower beds, plant fresh flowers
put down new mulch
tidy up the front porch, get a fresh mat, wreath on the door
front doors that are painted black often sell for more than houses with doors that are other colors
get rid of old lumber, broken items or garbage in the hard
grease up squeaky hinges and lock on the front door
Where to start indoors when you are staging to sell or designing to dwell:
declutter
declutter
go eat dinner and declutter again
Get things off the floor. When the floor of your pantry, closets or around your home is empty of clutter, it makes the space feel better.
Paint
Take everything off the counters and start fresh. Only put back the things that are the most necessary.
Declutter/decorate kids’ rooms
Repair things- pick just 1 or 2 things to start
Change out burned out light bulbs. Change the covers over bulbs that are discolored or dingy looking.
Four C’s of Making Your Home a Reflection of You
Clutter Free
Clear Focal Point
Creativity and Color
Communication
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Ideas for Decorating on a Budget
Swap throw pillows and/or furniture from room to room.
Use a functional element to decorate. For example:
In the laundry room, use a tray to hold your detergent in a pretty bottle, vase to hold loose change or other items found in pants pockets, etc.
In the kitchen decorate with a nice looking cutting board that can be used as a decorative piece as well
Use your kids’ art as artwork- make a gallery wall with frames to hold their paintings/drawings, or use a line with clips on it. Rainie’s Family has a fun tradition of holding art shows to honor their children’s work. The family gets dressed up, the art is displayed in a special place. The kids have to answer questions from their parents about their art, and they even serve refreshments.
Make a gallery wall of family photos. Keep a file of photos so you can change them out every so often.
Listen to the podcast for many more tips and tricks!
Where to find more from LD Design Co:
Website: https://www.lddesignco.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lddesignco/
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