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After 15 years of living in our house, I have a long mental list of updates that I would love to do. But with our Malibu renewal in full peak, I am trying to keep my approach (and my budget) in small strategic changes: I am approaching them as “micro” updates instead of a complete review.
Our living room had been living with the same furniture, the same back and the same shelf style since our last update in 2021. He was starting to feel … a little obsolete. I was looking for an important image change, but I knew that some reflexive adjustments could change the energy and give new life to our space.
Then, during the last month, I got strategic about making some updates that I knew I would have a huge impact, and honestly, I am surprised how different the room feels. It is proof that even some simple changes can create a home feel fresh, inspiring and reflecting where you are Right now.
Move to see my renewed room and some tips to inspire your own spring update.
Update your shelf style
If you have many open shelves like me, it can be easy to settle in a certain shelf arrangement and then never touch it again. But updating your shelves can instantly energy the whole room, and can or do it only to be responsible pieces that you already have. I like to walk around my house and take pieces from other rooms to mix everything, it’s like “buying my own home.”
This time, I started with larger anchor pieces (such as a ceramic bowl and a stack of books) and in layers from there with narrower and more significant objects. While organizing in terms of scale and negative space.
Advice: Once you have organized your shelves, remove one or two articles and see if you like the appearance. Some pieces placed designed have more impact than the shelves that feel full.
Rethink the way they hang art
We had always had a great work of art centered above the fireplace, and although it worked, it began to feel too formulated. So, I decided to break the “rules” with a closer piece supported against the wall outside the center“ Then he balanced it with a sculptural vase and an olive branch on the other side of the mantle.
I fell in love with this photo of Byron Bay in neutral tones, I asked for an impression and the touch in Framebridge to mark customized. The rounded corners of this ash frame really rise and make it feel of high quality (but at a much more affordable price than the traditional personalized frame).
Advice: Do not be afraid to play asymmetry. It brings an organic and effortless sensation to a space that feels more modern and alive.
Update your coffee table environment
One of the biggest changes in our living room was this low coffee table that immediately made the room feel more relaxed and cozy. Then in layers in some of my favorite coffee table books, which is such a simple way to take personality to a room.
Advice: The coffee table books are my favorite decoration accessory because they tell a story about who you are. Stack two or three, add a small candle or decorative object at the top, and there is immediately a design pov that is easy to change with the stations.
Add a new plant to give new life to a room
Nothing relives a room faster than a well -located interior plant. Many of you have legs following my journey from Oliva Negra, and although I loved the way it looked in space, after multiple rounds of throwing all its leaves, I had to admit that I was not happy in this corner.
Then, I added a new inner tree with an airy sensation of Asian inspiration that adapts perfectly to the influence of Japandi’s design through our home. Real I bought it locally in Austin (the outdoors) and I cannot remember the name of this variety. Does anyone know?
Advice: Choose plants that fit both the lighting needs of your space and the environment you are creating. (And remember: the larger the plant, the greater the impact).
Place a new base with a back
One of the simplest ways to complete a space? Start from scratch. A new back can define the colored palette of the room, bring cozy texture and instantly change the mood. This time I went to the light, with a neutral and organic tissue in a large size for the whole space.
I kept our old carpet and roll it up to change them seasonally: getting this carpet every spring is such a fun way to give the room a lighter and brighter sensation.
Advice: If you yearn for the change but do not want to replace everything, focus on an important piece, such as the back, but will establish the tone for the rest of the space.
Create welcoming spaces for how you live
I thought this area is not technically part of the same room, I had to show our cozy media space that is outside the living room so that you can see how the two spaces are related to each mind.
This is the space where children spend, Henry play video games and build lay people, and we see family films. And to be honest. I did or neglect it, in terms of design. Therefore, it was the perfect time to move some of the pieces that were previously in my living room (the white oak coffee table and the pieces on the shelves) to give new life to the space without making a lot of new purchases.
That said, we really needed a new sofa here, and I wanted something that felt aligned with my style and that was also extremely comfortable. Homebody’s luxury sofa was exactly the piece that this space needed. You can move it to “zero gravity well -being” mode (it is secretly reclined) for the best comfort of films observation.
The house of your dream is a feeling
In one of the workshops of My Vision Board earlier this year, a woman asked me: “What happens if my dream’s house feels completely out of reach?”
Led to a conversation that I think of mineral. Our dream house is not about square meters, price labels or “perfect” design. It is a feeling. And the truth is that we can start creating that feeling at this time, a small change at the same time.
Here are some newspaper indications that we explore together. Maybe they also trigger something:
- What does the house of your dream do? folding As?
- How do you talk to your senses? What music is playing, what aromas fill the air?
- When you wake up in your bed, how do you feel?
- On your dream day, how do you spend time at home?
As long as you sit with these questions, remember: Every small change, be it a new carpet, a reference shelf or a tree that extends to the roof and the measures to a home that feeds it, inspires it and reminds you of that life. Creation is happening is happening.
