Every Home Has a Story: Does Your Home Reflect Your Heart, Your Soul, Your Life and Your Family?



When our home reflects our heart, our soul, our life and our family, we can’t help but feel warm fuzzy feelings about the place we live. How we design our home tells our story in so many ways! And how we design our home can write our story, too.


Are you mindful of the life you want to live as you design your home?

Do you consider a sense of “belonging” in your home?

Have you started thinking about the upcoming holidays? 

What mood and experience do you want to create in your home?

Remember the last time you walked into a professionally designed home and marveled at its beauty? Chances are, the designer carefully planned the interior finishings -- like crown mouldings and interior doors. While trim and doors have a major impact on interior decor, few homeowners select them with the same care as their furnishings or paint.

Interior finishings are decorative interior products that create the look, feel and flow of design throughout your home. They include trim, interior doors, wall treatments, chair rails, ceiling treatments and mantels -- and they all significantly impact the design of a room.

In addition to making a space look professionally styled and creating character, these architectural elements are also functional. Interior finishings can make walls seem taller, hide seams between windows and walls and conceal flaws. When incorporated into plans early in the design process, they can also help save money. The richness of finishings used on walls, ceilings and doors lessens the need to fill a room with furniture and accessories.
However, in the past, finding the right interior finishings was often difficult and uninspiring for homeowners, builders and designers. Now there are plenty of antique shops, resale shops and other places to find the most unique and beautiful pieces for your home.

Great interior design has nothing to do with the amount of money you spend. It has to do with how well your home tells your story.

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