Personality Quest: finding your style

If you’ve ever scrolled through page after page of gorgeous home photos in Pinterest and subsequently thrown your computer at your own barren walls in disgust, I’m here to help. Don’t despair my friend! Please remember this: a beautiful home takes time.

Unless you’ve got money coming out your ears and impeccable taste, your home will probably be a work in progress for a while. That’s OK! It takes time to figure out your style. You can count on making a few missteps along the way. You might buy a few accessories that have no business belonging to you, or paint every room in your house a color that you regret immediately. You might save and save to buy that amazing sofa for the living room and still be eating dinner on folding chairs in the kitchen.

But isn’t that half the fun? How else would you become confident in your style? How else would you really learn how to identify what you love? That’s why I think it’s a good idea to take pictures of your house every so often, to see how it evolves and changes and how far you’ve come. Just like you would with your children! I bet you would amaze yourself.

Check out where Emily’s bedroom started:

Hand-me-down furniture, those familiar barren walls, mismatched and sparse accessories. Not that there’s anything wrong with hand-me-down furniture, but it certainly wasn’t a cohesive look. Let’s check out the next phase:

 

Getting better! New flooring, curtains, paint color and a DIY wall treatment. She could have stopped there. But I’m so glad she didn’t. Let’s see how it looks today with just a few more tweaks:

Wow! The wall color is softer and complements the new bedding beautifully. The plug-in sconces add some much-needed height. The artwork looks more upscale now that she painted the frames and added burlap mats. She’s brought in softness, pattern, texture, and color, and it doesn’t even look distantly related the first picture!

Don’t you find that so inspiring? I do.  See much more from Emily at Table and Hearth.