Nine years ago this month I released my New York Times bestselling book Love the Home You Have! My, how time flies! The theme of this book — the art of finding contentment with our home, experiencing more joy with what we have in the small daily tasks and seasonal rhythms of life — remains one of my favorites.
A message of finding joy, contentment and beauty with what you have is woven through every blog post and book I write, the ways I decorate and care for whatever home I live in.
I now offer a Home Rhythm and Room Recipe Workshop
that will help you create the perfect home for you!
1. Consider what you have
I’ve always been a girl who gets lost in her day dreams of houses! I have a house-shaped heart.
I love to hunt for inspiration (I save lots of ideas, drool over design books and always brake for charming houses when I’m driving around my favorite neighborhoods).
Studying good design can be a great way to educate yourself and help you to refine your own sense of style.
However, in this social media world where we can get a steady stream of inspiration photos featuring dream houses and perfectly styled spaces sent to our phones all day long, our vision of what is actually needed for our contentment and happiness at home can sometimes become a little skewed.
When I started The Inspired Room (before it became a blog) I would go into client’s homes to make a room feel and look better. We’d gather pieces from around their house and within a couple of hours their room felt more pulled together. They never had to buy anything new unless they wanted to, but they were always so much happier and content with what they had once the space was arranged in a more welcoming way!
I think it’s always important to consider what you have before you leap into any major purchase! Your decisions will be better and your style will be more enduring if you’ve gone through a design process* before impulsively adding to cart!
*I teach you the exact process I go through to design a room, whether it’s from scratch or using what I have in my Room Recipe Workshop. You’ll learn how to incorporate what you have (or how to decide what you want to add) so your home tells your story, how to design any room creatively and ways to make the most of your style and space. Find all of my courses in HomeBody Gathering Place.
2. practice a home rhythm
It makes it more difficult to create a home you love when you don’t have plan.
Every season I always go through the same “home rhythm” to help me plan by setting priorities, goals, and make decisions that inspire me to create a sanctuary for myself and our family.
A rhythm is like magic, it works like a charm every time!
Once you get into a home rhythm, you feel more peace, order and clarity because you know what to expect.
I’ve developed a home rhythm over the past few decades that never fails to inspire me. It gets me on the right path and always makes me so much happier and more content with my decisions.
I am finally offering my Home Rhythm (along with Room Recipe!) to members of HomeBody Gathering Place so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. And that’s really the beauty of a rhythm! You don’t reinvent the wheel every new season or home project. It gets you unstuck and moving forward on the right path.
You’ll know what to do (no more floundering!) and get into your groove more easily because you continue to use the same rhythm (and recipe!) in every season and space.
Between the Home Rhythm, Room Recipe and your own HomeBody Notebook (all included for HomeBody Gathering Place members!) you’ll be able to design “the perfect home for you.” And if you get stuck, no worries! We’re always right there in the community to help answer your questions.
Right now I offer my Home Rhythm and Room Recipe courses along with a style course in HomeBody Gathering Place.
You can go through this 3 part course as often as you want to set up your sanctuary, style and room for success!
In this social media culture where home expectations can feel overwhelmingly materialistic, unattainable or just too difficult apply to our own budget, home or style, this course and our community will feel like a breath of fresh air. You’ll feel more empowered to create a home you really love.
In HomeBody Gathering Place we turn homes into sanctuaries! Join us for spring session for weekly home decor teaching, printable resources and personal support in our lovely community of fellow home-creators we call HomeBodies!
