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Home Design Hurdles Part 3: How To Make The Most Out Of Difficult Spaces?
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Home Design Hurdles Part 3: How To Make The Most Out Of Difficult Spaces?

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It’s amazing how many homes are built with challenging spaces. Whether laid out in strange configurations or using materials you wouldn’t have chosen, many homes can be difficult to make sense of without blowing the budget to renovate and start fresh. As our final question in our home design hurdles series (a series based on questions asked by you all through our blog content questionnaire!! Check out part 1 and 2 HERE), the issue of how to make the most out of difficult spaces really comes down to two directions: challenges with finishes and challenges with layouts. While finishes might seem easier to address than layouts, I want to share some key elements to keep in mind as well as basic interior design principles that….

Home Design Hurdles Part 2: How To Make The Sentimental Feel Intentional?
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Home Design Hurdles Part 2: How To Make The Sentimental Feel Intentional?

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We all have it. That one piece that you absolutely love because of the memories that it holds, the gift that it was to you or the heirloom that you have been passed down. It might be slightly worn, or not quite your style or something that you have no idea how to use, but nevertheless, you just CAN’T bring yourself to get rid of it! If you have followed along from Part One of our Home Design Hurdles series (or missed it and want to check it out, you can HERE!) and now have your creative juices flowing, I wanted to switch gears to analyzing how to make the sentimental feel intentional. If you followed through the steps last week and now have gathered all of your items to determine how to use them, there might be several pieces in your collection that you love because of their sentimentality but not quite for their design charm. Seeing this, please don’t throw them out just yet ….

Home Design Hurdles Part 1: What To Do When Creativity Fails? (And How To Start Again!)
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Home Design Hurdles Part 1: What To Do When Creativity Fails? (And How To Start Again!)

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As I have been working on client designs and reviewing our recent 2023 content questionnaire responses (thank you to everyone who filled it out!), I have gotten numerous questions about tricky design situations. How should you create a timeless design? What to do when creativity fails? How to design for challenging spaces? How to make something antique or sentimental feel refreshed? How to create a fabulous space on a budget? How to bring a room all together? Whether big or small, I am thrilled that you all asked, as many of these questions I have struggled through as well whether in client interior design projects or DIYs around my own home. Seeing this, I want to help start the conversation to answering these questions, so I am beginning a three part series called “Home Design Hurdles”. In each of my posts over the next three weeks, I will look to dissect a question (or sum of questions) I received and bring about some tangible options to move past the hurdle. So, without further ado, let’s dive into our first question…