Use this list of the Top 5 no-cost resources for home decor inspiration to help redecorate your home for the new year. Where to find professional home decorating ideas and tips to help design a home you actually want to be in.
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Lately, I’ve been getting the itch to redecorate and reorganize our home. However, starting the interior design process isn’t as just starting. I tend to get overwhelmed with where to start when it comes to home design. What do I even want the house to look like in the end? I’ve found a lot of my friends and other people have this same struggle when I talk to them.
So I’ve put together a list of no-cost resources you can use to find home decor inspiration.
5 Resources For Your Home Decor Inspiration
I’ve found the very first step I start with when wanting to redecorate my home is collecting a list of design resources that I’m inspired by to use as a starting point and sense of design direction. Here’s a list of my top 5 resources I use for Home Decor Inspiration.
#1 Pinterest
Pinterest is both a powerful and dangerous resource, I’ve found myself getting lost for hours looking through inspiring pins on Pinterest.
Pinterest already starts you off running by filling your home feed with images they think you’ll love.
Here’s a little tip: go to your existing Home Decor Inspiration Board and collect Pins that all have a similar look to what you’re wanting for your own home. As well as collecting other Pins that have similar design elements as each other.
This helps hone in on the design style you’re drawn to rather than having several different design styles to choose from. If you really cant hone in on one particular style, try to at least keep the styles to between 1 to 3. That way you can later try to blend these together if needed without it looking too incohesive.
#2 Blogs You Read Frequently
I’ve recently noticed that pretty much all of the blogs that I read frequently and go back to on a daily basis are blogs with interiors that I’m envious of.
The point of decorating your home is to decorate it in a way that makes you want to sit and live in that particular room all day.
I like to look at photos of rooms on blogs I read and think about how that structure of that room is similar to my own and how I could replicate that same look. Or with just a little rearranging could I do something similar?
One blog I go back to time and time again is the Magnolia.com blog. Jo’s recently renovated library tour is gorgeous and I’m constantly finding myself studying the colors and textures she uses and contemplate how I could incorporate this same look.
# 3 Look at Your Own Home for Inspiration
It’s easier to break it down and pick a specific room to start with for this task. Pick a room and look around and try to find at least one thing in that room you love and/or can draw inspiration from.
Even though you’re not loving that current room right now, there’s usually at least one thing in your home that you love and are proud to have displayed. Once you’ve found that one piece it can give you a direction for your design style and build off of it.
Ask yourself what do you currently own that will work for your new home decor inspiration. Can you use it the way it is? If so, great! If not, can you upcycle it in a way to make it work for your new home decor inspiration?
You may be surprised with what you already have in your home to work with.
For example, one of my favorite things currently in my living room is this ticking stripe chair I reupholstered recently. So maybe I should use more ticking stripes throughout the room or more neutral colors like white and brown.
# 4 Look at the World Around You
Get out of the house and go look around. Are there any coffee shops, stores, or places you love going to?
I love browsing antique malls and other places that have staging areas. One of my favorite places to go is an Anthropology store.
They have the most beautiful decorations and staging rooms. A lot of the displays in their stores are more like art pieces but I find myself staring at them and always wondering how I could DIY something similar and put it someplace in my house.
Maybe you love the colors or textures or materials used in these places that you love. In that case, you now understand what design elements your drawn to and can incorporate them into your design inspiration.
#5 Books and Magazines
I have to admit this is my least used resource but it’s also a classic. There are a lot of interior design books and magazines out there to draw home decor inspiration from so why not utilize them.
The best thing about this kind of resource that the others don’t have is that it’s physical. If your a hands-on and crafty kind of person you can tear our the stuff you love and make a mood board. Or fold down the corners of the pages and write notes on a sticky note or in the margins.
The one book I go to often for home decor inspiration is Lizs’ new book from lizmarieblog.com, Cozy White Cottage – 100 ways to love the feeling of being home.
Her new book is stuffed full of 100 ways to add cozy feels into your home. If you’re unfamiliar with Liz, she’s a well-known home decor and lifestyle blogger obsessed with making her fixer-upper farmhouse cozy in every one of its nooks and crannies.
In her book, she shares helpful styling tips she uses in her own home when inspiring us on her blog and social media platforms.
That concludes my top 5 Resources for Home Decor Inspiration
I do have one last tip to share with you all. It’s not another resource for home decor inspiration but it’s more of a way to utilize the inspiration you’ve collected.
So I had mentioned how creating a mood board from the #5 resource books and magazines. You can do the same thing with your digital resources. I use a site called Invision. It’s FREE and it’s super great for creating a virtual mood board.
I actually use Invision for all sorts of things, not just home decor inspiration boards. But also things like fashion inspiration, sewing inspiration, sometimes cooking inspiration.
You can create boards and add all the photos you’ve collected and drawn on them. You can add notes, like explaining specifically what you like about a specific photo or how you would change it. I like to include links along with the photos that way I can always go back to the place I found it easily.
So there you have it there is my list of top 5 Resources for Home Decor Inspiration. I hope you guys found this list helpful!
Take a look at my Home Decor Inspiration Pinterest Board for some ideas to get yourself started.
Are there other resources you guys use for home decor inspiration? If so, leave them in the comments below I’d love to hear them!
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