A lot of people passionately deny that they even give fashion a second thought, but they are all essentially liars. Even if they don’t wear designer clothes, they choose to wear one kind of clothes over another and so do give fashion a thought. The same thing is true of interior design. If you have stuff in your home (or even if you choose not to!), you are an interior designer.

Think about it. We all live someplace and even if we live with our family, we still leave our mark in some way or other. Even a fridge magnet or those little home decor accents you placed on the window sill makes you a contributor to your home’s decor.

Traditionally, men have been the ones to deny that they had anything to do with decorating their homes. ‘I just pay the bills, ‘ a husband quipped, ‘the little woman chose the designer baby bedding and everything else in here.’ The wife chose the color schemes, the fabrics and everything else, so she was the main home decorator.

That was true as far as it went, but as a member of the household, the husband did always leave his imprint. He had his favorite easy chair, for instance, and you can bet that if the wife chose girly designer crib bedding for his future football playing infant son, he raised quite a stink!

Is there a point to all of this? Well, yes. Why deny that you’re an interior designer? Why not embrace it and make the most of it. Make your home’s interior design reflect the best of who you are. This isn’t just to show it off to your friends – it’s to remind and inspire you, too.

Hopefully, you are already enough of a decorator to clean up after yourself! Next time you’re cleaning up the room, why not move some things around or change them altogether. Have a good look around and see what still means something to you and what’s just there because you no longer notice it. Change those old photos on the wall or shift them to another place. Just doing little things like that can make for a refreshing change.

On some level, whether you’re aware of it or not, your home’s decor affects how you feel. It is in your power to change the way you feel about yourself and your world just by changing the look of your surroundings. Make your home make you smile!


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