Rapid Fire Decor Tips - fast and fundamental

All right.

Well, you're gonna start with taking a picture.

Take a picture when you begin.

As you're trying different things, take a picture, and then when you love the way it looks, go ahead and take a picture of that.

So that's a great way to go, and just keep all those pictures, and you can see how your room evolves over time.

Well, you gotta do it.

You have to declutter before you decorate, so only the meaningful pieces remain.

You've got some negative space, and then you can add in other things.

But if you do not start with that crucial step, you are not gonna get the result that you want.

So declutter before decorating.

[laughs] Couldn't agree with that one more.

Measure before you buy.

This happens to me.

Sometimes I do look at, at the measurements, but sometimes my thought of what 20 inches is isn't what it really is.

So you wanna measure and make sure that things are gonna come the size that you think they are and that they're gonna fit in the space that you have.

Identify the feeling that you want first.

It doesn't have to be a specific image.

It doesn't have, uh, be a specific piece of furniture, but you want to identify the feeling that you're gonna want in your room, whether it's cozy, energetic, serene, and then design towards that.

So it's a little more amorphous.

It's not a specific color palette or item.

It is a feeling.

Figure out what that feeling is, what feeling you want to represent in the space, and then design towards that.

Choose a whole home color thread for cohesion.

It doesn't have to be the main color in each room, but just choose some color that's gonna show up throughout your house, and that's gonna be kind of your signature color.

This one is really important, because I think people have certainly gotten the memo on testing paints before you commit to painting a whole room or just a whole area.