Feeling overwhelmed by the idea of downsizing your home? Take a deep breath! Join me as we explore the secrets to creating a cozy, clutter-free home. Learn essential tips for steering clear of over-furnishing and optimizing functionality in your new place. And don't miss out on my savvy money-saving strategies for your downsizing journey. With insights on versatile furniture and smart decision-making, consider this your guide to making a smaller home that's both comfortable and enjoyable. Say hello to a new chapter of simplified living!
Read More5 Accent Furniture Pieces That Solve Small and Awkward Living Room Layouts
Feeling stuck in a cramped living room? Picture this: furniture that's like a magician, making your space feel bigger without any effort. Say goodbye to clutter with pieces that pull double duty, offering extra room and secret storage. Imagine sinking into comfy seats that swivel and adapt to whatever you're up to. And check out sleek surfaces and open shelves that give your room a breath of fresh air.
Read MoreSpace-Saving Solutions: Exploring End Table Alternatives for Compact Spaces.
Small rooms, tricky corners, and awkward spaces? No problem! Learn how to transform tight spots with clever alternatives to traditional end tables. Discover nesting tables, wall shelves, and more that turn challenges into style statements.
Read MoreGo big. Go bold. Be Beautifully Maximalist in Your Small Home!
Embrace the Maximalist Lifestyle: Unleash your creativity with bold designs, vibrant interiors, and eclectic elements. This curated guide has inspiration, tips, and small space solutions for a maximalist haven that reflects your personality. Dive into the world of maximalism today and transform your home into a vibrant masterpiece!
Read MoreSeat Yourself: Why a Window Seat is a Must-Have for Your Small Home
Struggling to find seating options for your small living room or bedroom? Have you thought about a window seat? Not only can it create additional seating space, but it can also enhance the functionality and coziness of your room. Let me show you why window seats are a smart choice for small rooms.
Read MoreRepurposing Furniture: How to Make it Work in Awkward Spaces
Transform Your Home with Repurposed Furniture: Tips, Ideas, and DIY Projects. Learn how to choose the right furniture, customize it to fit awkward spaces, and incorporate it into your home decor. Get creative and repurpose old furniture into something new and functional.
Read MoreTransform Your Small Living Room with These 13 Multifunctional Furniture Finds
Make the most of your small living room with these 13 multifunctional furniture pieces. Discover clever solutions for seating, storage, and workspaces that will transform your space into a cozy and functional haven.
Read More18 Small Bedroom Decor Ideas That Will Make It Feel Spacious
Tired of being cramped in your tiny bedroom? These small bedroom decor ideas will help you make the most of your space!
Read MoreYour Furniture is too Small for Your Small Room
The truth is small furniture in small rooms can often make the room feel unbalanced. Just like weights and measurements, the furniture in a small room must fill the space appropriately to feel balanced. If your small room feels off, it’s probably because the furniture is too small.
Read MoreDemilune Tables: Why Every Small or Tricky Room Needs One
A common complaint I hear from clients is that they struggle to find furniture to fit in tight spots like entry ways, or near a pass-through doorway, or in small bedrooms. These areas are often narrow or small and larger, rectangular furniture won’t fit. The answer is a demilune table. Here’s why.
Read More9 Reasons Why Your Tricky, Small Room Needs a Gateleg Table
Gateleg tables are one of the most versatile pieces of furniture to have in a small, awkward, or tricky room. It’s important to think in terms of multi-function for rooms with challenging layouts. I’ll show you nine ways you may not have thought of to use a gateleg table.
Read More10 Incredible Expert Designer Tips That Will Elevate Your Small Home to the Next Level!
Here’s some of the most innovative and creative uses for challenging small spaces I’ve ever come across. If you need help figuring out how to make tight spots in your home or apartment functional and beautiful, this post is for you! These experts will show you how to rethink, embellish and fine tune tricky and awkward rooms so you can turn eye sores into eye candy!
Read More3 Amazing Ways to Layout a 9’ x 10’ Bedroom with an Angled Wall and a Bumped-in Closet
Small bedrooms can be very challenging. But finding furniture with the right dimensions that will also fit nicely into a room that’s less than 10’ square is even more challenging. Add an angled wall, a bumped-out closet, and an off-center window and you have a super tricky room to lay out. Here’s how to make a small bedroom with multiple challenges work!
Read MoreLove Rearranging Your Small Living Room? Here’s the Furniture You Need to Make Multiple Layouts Work
We learn early on that you can’t fit a square shape into a round hole. Small Living rooms often have the same kind of restraints. Unlike a child’s puzzle, real rooms have more leeway for furniture placement, but that can still make things tough. Planning your furnishings carefully is the key to multiple layout options.
Read More5 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Improve Your Accent Furniture Game
Accent furniture is a piece of furniture that compliments a space.
Literally it is a piece that emphasizes something like a color or style.
Accent furniture adds the punctuation to a room, providing a pause as you peruse the space.
Often, they complete a design; adding that last detail, or filling an awkward corner where nothing else works.
Read More14 Timeless Sofas for Your Perfect Living Room Makeover
I watched video after video of “here’s how to recognize Mid-Century Modern Sofas” from a handful of novice decorators. What I saw had as much to do with Mid Century Modern sofas as if Abraham Lincoln hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket for a stroll on the moon.
Yes, quite a few of the videos showed a Mid Century looking sofa, and I’m good with that. I think a reproduction that gives you that look and aesthetic is great. But, don’t tell your audience that a fuchsia tufted Chesterfield loveseat will check the Mid Century vibe you’re wanting.
When you’re planning a makeover with a specific aesthetic, it’s important to understand why a sofa or couch fits into a particular style. It’s also important to know basic terminology for a particular style so you can adequately communicate exactly what you want to a furniture store salesperson or designer.
Read More11 Amazing Hacks to Create Space You Didn’t Know You Had!
Ah, the small house… It’s often described as charming, cozy and quaint. But what you don’t hear it described as roomy, accommodating or versatile. That’s because unlike larger homes with space to spread out and grow, smaller homes are finite, and you have to work with what you’ve got.
There’s no “bonus” room that lacks definition, or a great room in addition to the family room and living room. Nope, the small house is purposeful. Bedroom(s), kitchen, living, and bath are all exactly what they are intended to be with little wiggle room for any other purpose.
Read MoreHate Your 12 x 18 Living Room? Here’s 10 Flex Layouts to Make you Love it Again!
Small living rooms can be a P.I.T.A. Especially long narrow ones. It often feels like you’re playing Tetris; trying to maneuver a beefy couch next to a an even beefier chair. You lug and push until you’re too exhausted to care and you just leave your furniture any old way to avoid more stress. After a couple of weeks of “living with it,” you look at it and you know there’s a better way to arrange it so, on you go again, lugging and pushing, micro-positioning and tweaking angles ever-so-slightly…
Read More9 Ways to Flawlessly Decorate Your New House with Old Furniture
Congratulations! You just moved to your new house! You’re thrilled to finally be in after months of jumping through hoops and standing on your head for banks and lawyers. Now, the house is finally yours, just in time for the stay at home orders… You’re spending loads of time on your furniture, looking at it day in and day out. As you look around, you’re beginning to feel bummed because it doesn’t quite look like the Pinterest board of your dreams. Maybe you’ve just been cooped up too long lately and you are just plain sick of your old furniture.
Read More15 Essential and Affordable Things Every Small House Needs
Small house living has a lot of positive implications: Cleaning can be a breeze, there’s usually lower utility bills because you’re not heating or cooling a huge house. If you’re well organized, then you probably have everything in its place and easy to find. Yes indeed, small house living can be awesome. But there’s always the exception, right? Like where will that third house guest sleep when you only have two bedrooms? Or, where do you put that mountain of shoes you just can’t seem to edit? Finding useful storage is the number one concern I get from clients living in small homes. The next is comfortable guest accommodations, followed by a myriad of functionality related questions. So, I thought what better way to cover some of these topics then by exploring some of my favorite ways to create more storage, comfort and function for your small house.
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