When I shared my winter home reset ideas, I mentioned that one of the easiest (and most overlooked) ways to transform a space is by moving what you already own. So instead of just talking about it, I decided to try it in our own kitchen nook. These three different ideas have been bouncing around in my head for the last couple of years, so I couldn’t wait to finally see them in action. It reminded me of my younger years, when I couldn’t wait to get home from school just to rearrange my bedroom. The result? Three completely different looks, each with its own purpose and feel.
Winter Home Reset: 5 Simple Ways to Refresh Your Home During the Quiet Season
This time of year always feels like a natural invitation to reset our home. During the warmer months, you’ll almost always find me outside, hands in the garden, tending to whatever is growing. Rarely do I begin an indoor project when the sun is shining, and there are garden beds to weed. But in the quiet months of winter, when spring still feels several weeks away, my focus gently shifts inward.
Instead of feeling discouraged by the slower pace of the season, I see it as an opportunity to give the interiors of our home a little extra love. Sometimes that looks like a deep clean—washing baseboards and cabinet doors that are easy to ignore during busier seasons. Other times, it means pulling out a paintbrush and freshening up tired trim. And occasionally, it turns into a full purging session where closets are sorted and junk drawers finally brought back to order.
A Facebook Marketplace Hutch Makeover That Fits Our Space
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s this: furnishing a home takes time. Not everything needs to be decided or purchased all at once—and honestly, that’s part of what makes it fun. Living in a space, noticing what works (and what doesn’t), and slowly collecting pieces that feel right is one of my favorite parts of homemaking. Today I’m sharing about a hutch I found on Facebook Marketplace that fits our space much better than the smaller cabinet I was previously using as a placeholder. The only thing it needed was a little makeover to transform this piece into one that looks like it belongs in our home.
Creating a Clean Slate at Home for the New Year
Happy New Year! I’ve always loved the feeling of a fresh start that comes with the new year—a new calendar, a new planner, and the sense that anything is possible. Once the Christmas decorations are taken down and put away, I like to let our home sit in that in-between space for a bit—simple, open, and calm. Before I start adding more layers back in, I take time to reset our home and thoughtfully consider what’s working and what needs a little extra attention.
The Gift of Making a Mistake
Recently I was chatting with a friend about her home, and she was sharing with me how she had all sorts of ideas on things she wanted to do in her new home, but that she was afraid of making the wrong choice. Sound familiar? I think we all experience decorating paralysis at one time or another. In some areas we can be so sure of our design choices, but in other areas we can get so stuck second guessing ourselves that we feel paralyzed to the point where we can’t even make a decision out of fear we will make the wrong one. Have you been there? I know I have, even with our new house. But I’ve also learned the gift of making a mistake when it comes to decorating my home, so today I’m sharing about making mistakes with our home decor, and the gift that comes from taking chances.
Gallery Wall Tutorial + Sources
One of my favorite ways to decorate that reflects our personal style is with a gallery wall. Whether you use artwork, or family photos, what we choose to hang on our walls can say a lot about who we are, and reflect what we love. If you have a lot of wall space in your home, hanging a collection of smaller frames in a grouping to create a gallery is an easy way to fill a space, and can often times be more affordable than a large piece of artwork. I recently tweaked the frames I have hanging over our console table in our living room to create a larger grouping of frames, so today I’m sharing how I created this gallery wall and sources for the frames and artwork I used.
Decorating Ideas that Reflect Your Personal Style
Now that I have been living with my home in clean slate mode for a little bit, I’m ready to start bringing back my everyday decor into our spaces. The pieces that we live with day in and day out. The ones that I feel like they truly reflect our personal style. I started thinking about why I choose the pieces I have, and how they reflect our personal style, and it got me thinking. How are you feeling about your own home decor right now? Now that Christmas is behind us and put away, and spring has yet to come. How are you feeling about the decor in your home? Are you ready for a refresh? Do you feel like something is missing? Today I’m sharing my top decorating ideas for how to decorate your home so that it reflects your personal style.
A Clean Slate for the New Year
Happy New Year!! I hope your New Year is off to a great start! I have been embracing the post-holiday “slow down”, and finding contentment in doing less these days. There are a few things that I like to do at the start of every new year in our home. And as I’ve learned to embrace winter, and find comfort in the stillness, I am beginning to looking forward to this time of the year more and more. So in case you have found yourself in a post-holiday slump or fog, I wanted to share my process with you and the steps I take to create a clean slate for the new year. Today it’s all about the home, and next I will be sharing how I do this process in my life personally as well.
Finding Contentment with our Homes
Do you struggle with finding contentment in your home? Perhaps you are in a season of life where your living room is covered with toddler toys, or the room makeovers you’ve been dreaming to accomplish haven’t found room yet in the budget to be completed? I would be lying if I told you that I’ve never struggled with this feeling – I completely have. Friend, I am no stranger to these feelings, I only know how real they can be and how loud they can get inside our heads. I have definitely struggled with these feelings more than once over the past 10 years – almost 20 if I’m thinking back to my first apartment, and over the past almost two decades, I’ve learned a few ways to fight back the feelings of discontentment and to fall in love with the four walls that surround me once again.
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