Personality is that the special, unique thing that makes your home feel less like a furniture showroom and more like you! It’s that collected over time, stories in every corner kind of energy. And the good news is giving your home this meaningful personal touch is easier than you might think! Here are three of my favorite (easily doable) ways to turn up the personality in your home.
1. Paint Your Home’s Mood with Color
Color, more than any other design element, sets the vibe. Whether you choose to go bold with a dark, moody green or keep it light and soft with a blush pink, the colors you choose for both your walls and furnishings are doing some major emotional labor in your home. Think of color as your home’s mood ring. Want your spaces to feel cozy and comfortable? Go for warm, saturated colors. Is whimsical and playful more your vibe? Try a bright pop of unexpected color in a nook, on a ceiling, or a piece of furniture. Moral of the story? Don’t be afraid to play with color! Neutrals might be crowd pleasers in some of your favorite home decor catalogues; but in your home, you make the rules!
2. Let Your Walls Tell Your Story
I like to think of the walls in a home as blank pages. Walls provide the perfect opportunity to showcase your life. Meaningful art, vintage finds, family photos, special keepsakes, kids’ artwork, these are the pieces that tell your unique story. And when it comes to hanging, the goal need not be perfect symmetry or precise spacing but storytelling. Give yourself permission to mix frame styles, colors, and sizes. The best gallery walls aren’t perfect; they’re personal. If someone can walk into your home and learn something about you just by looking at your walls, you’ve nailed it!
3. Style Vignettes with Collected Items
Styling a shelf, table, or mantle need not be stressful. Vignettes are like little pockets of curated personality. Consider a stack of well-loved books, a candle that you will actually light, a bowl of matchbooks from your travels, and that thrifted treasure that makes you smile every time you walk by. When you layer pieces you’ve collected over time, even a simple shelf can tell your story without saying a word.
The takeaway here is to play with color, hang that weird flea market art piece you just had to have, and let your shelves and surfaces hold collections of items that speak your language. After all, personality isn’t really something you purchase, rather it’s a vibe you get to slowly curate over time!
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Give Your Home Personality, One Decorating Decision at a Time.
If These Walls Could Talk, by Carmel Phillips, shows aspiring decorators how to bring their homes to life and show off their family’s unique personality through personal and deliberate design choices.
With practical help, tips, and tricks, Carmel helps you reframe the way you see your home and encourages you to embrace slow decorating—collecting meaningful new, heirloom, and thrifted items over time—and incorporating vibrant colors and patterns that energize you.
Your home has a story to tell. It’s time to make it yours. Learn more about the book and how to purchase here.
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