The Inspired Room is a happy mix of realistic ideas for decorating, simple homemaking, & inspiration for authentic living.
My name is Melissa and I’m the creator of The Inspired Room blog. I recently put together a little ebook called NOT a DIY Diva: How to Create an Authentically-Inspired Life in a Pinterest World, a compilation of The Inspired Room’s first four years of blogging about authentic living at home. I’m so excited to finally be able to see my words all edited and put in a pretty little package!
The Inspired Room has a readership of 300,000 unique readers each month and receives over 1 milion page views a month. I’m humbled to have been featured on such sites as HGTV.com, Apartment Therapy, Ladies Home Journal, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, The Nest, Coldwater Creek, The Dallas Morning News and The Pioneer Woman.
In addition to writing at The Inspired Room, I am a monthly contributor at (in)courage, and I have been a guest writer for Williams Sonoma Designer Market Place and HomeGoods, and a speaker for such fabulous conferences as Blissdom, Relevant and A Woman Inspired.
In day to day life I am a decorating consultant, a mom of three and a pastor’s wife helping to launch a brand new church in Washington called Voyage. If you want to read about the behind the scenes look at my life, you can find that here.
In the four years since it first began, this blog has had one mission: to inspire women to create an authentic home they LOVE and for their home to inspire their life.
I like to open my eyes to new things to inspire me in living an authentic life — hopefully things that will inspire you too! I love to dream, find inspiration in all sorts of places, and then take what I find and apply it (on a budget and usually using what I already have!) to my own home and life.
Along the way I hope to slow down enough to appreciate all the beauty around me every day. Life flies by too quickly and I don’t want to fail to notice the little things.
My Christmas mantel was featured in the Christmas 2011
Edition of Cottages & Bungalows magazine!- My home has been featured several times on HGTV.com!
- Featured writer for HomeGoods (find my articles here)
- Guest writer at Williams Sonoma Designer Marketplace
- Featured on Ladies Home Journal!
- The Washington Post Blog Watch The Seattle Times
- The Dallas Morning News
- Swank Lighting
- Apartment Therapy several times, including my blue table!
- Radio interview: Click here to listen to my live interview on Blog Talk Radio: The “O” Myth!
- NW Holiday Magazine, The Oregonian, December 2008
- My Fairy Garden has appeared in publications all over the world.
KIND RECOMMENDATIONS ON MY WRITING:
“I am very happy to find your blog as it is one of the best I’ve seen. You really are an excellent writer, and it is very enjoyable to read about what you are thinking and feeling. Clearly, I’m not the only one who realizes how good you are! Based on their comments, your audience really likes what you have to say, too.”
–Lauri Ward, best-selling author, founder & President of Use What You Have® Interiors and the Interior Refiners Network®
NOTE: The Inspired Room is a legally registered trademark. This means that you may not use The Inspired Room or any variation of that name in a way that could easily be confused with me or my business. I am required to defend my trademark.
