We’re all getting home decor backwards. You try to pick things to decorate your home that seem cute in the moment, only to find yourself in a room that makes no sense months, or even just weeks later. Instead of decorating off of temporary vibes and current trends, the best homes are curated by going inward first. When you connect with your next-level life — the one you fantasize about every day — and decorate from that vision, everything changes.

Most people think they love Modern Farmhouse, when what they really love is a way to decorate their homes in a way that looks good and is easy to replicate. You don’t have to overthink it, and you know it will look good. But, Modern Farmhouse leaves you feeling like your home isn’t really you. The good news is that Modern Farmhouse follows a repeatable design formula, and once you learn it, you can create a home that feels completely authentic to you. The Home Alchemy Method teaches you the step-by-step design formula that works no matter your taste.

Using AI to design and decorate your home has more costs than benefits. How do I know? I’ve suffered the consequences myself and see clients all the time who have tried and failed to get personal, beautiful and meaningful designs from AI. Using AI to decorate your home costs your creative freedom, time, energy and money. Use AI to outsource mundane work, not your creativity. Learn how to find your own human style and leave data entry and click-clacking to the bots.

If your DIY decorating project can’t seem to get off the ground, you might be blocked in ways you didn’t realize. This post dives into 4 creative decorating blocks and how to move past them.

We lost an American treasure last week, and Dolly has re-inspired so many of in a real way. This week, we explore some of the ways Dolly was her most authentic self, and how we can take that same energy into our homes right now.

Decluttering your home needs to go beyond surface-level looks or the habit won’t stick. Find out my personal reasons for decluttering + the next steps to get it done for good.

Is beige in or out? Do you love it or do you hate it? Oddly enough, beige can be polarizing, and I just can’t help but laugh at the irony.

Whether you’re a lover, hater or an in-betweener, you need to know the why behind the beige before judge it on its face.

Let’s get into it.

If you thought interior designers and home stylists were the same thing, you might be missing out on a whole world of decorating support for your home.

Read this to learn the difference between designers and stylists and what that means for your house.

The interior design industry wants you to feel bad about your home. They want to move the goalpost and make the perfect home ever-elusive. We don’t do that here.

Read this post for the solutions that the design industry gate-keeps.

If Pinterest boards worked, you’d already love your home by now. DIY doesn’t always work, and it leaves you fried and your home unfinished in the process. Read this blog to find out why DIY isn’t working for you and what to do instead.

Decorating as a couple might not feel glamorous when you’re fighting over throw pillows, but it’s actually one of the rarest ways to get closer together.

Read the final part of the Decorating for Couples with Opposite Taste series, and start designing a home you and your partner will love.

You want the antique lamp. They want the giant TV. Welcome to decorating with two completely different styles — where every choice feels like a negotiation and nobody wants to be the one who caves. Here's how to find a color palette you'll both actually love, without either of you settling.

"Shared spaces require shared style — but you each still need a space that's just yours." If you and your partner have opposite design styles, this is the first post in a 7-part series on how to divide, blend, and finally create a home that feels like both of you.

What does it look like when someone is so clearly, unapologetically themselves that you can feel it through a screen?

That's the question that pulled me toward Angela Houska of @hello.haveaseat — and her answer, it turns out, is deceptively simple: she just never stopped looking inward.

In a cultural moment where algorithms serve us a relentless stream of trends, aesthetics, and urgency designed to override our own instincts, Angela's work feels like an exhale. Her home, her content, and her creative practice all carry the same quality — groundedness. A sense that nothing here was decided by committee or optimized for a feed.

We talked about where personal taste actually comes from, why uncertainty isn't the enemy of creative expression (it's the whole point), and what happens to your life when your outer space finally starts to reflect your inner world.

This one hit close to home for me — literally and otherwise.

You don't need a designer to make your home feel like you — you need structure. Here's the simple color palette method (plus the 60/30/10 rule and one sneaky repetition trick) that turns "is this cute?" into a room that actually feels like home.

I've lived most of my life as a mirror for other people. I'm only now — at 36 — learning to have a stable inner world of my own. And what cracked that open for me wasn't therapy, or a retreat, or a single breakthrough moment. It was my home.

I finally started treating it like it was allowed to tell the truth about me.

That's the premise behind the Foundry Formula — my 7-step home styling methodology rooted in the real alchemical tradition: burn off everything false, everything performed, everything hollow, until only what's true remains. Then rebuild from there.

If you've ever walked into your own home and felt like a stranger in it, this one's for you.

A mood board isn't a vision board. It's not about gathering pretty pictures and hoping something clicks — it's an actual decision-making tool that can save you time, money, and a cart full of things that don't go together. I'll show you exactly what to put in one and why it works, using my own Italian-inspired backyard makeover as a live example. Once you see the seven ingredients that make a mood board actually useful, you'll never skip this step again.

You're bored of the room. You have ideas — half-formed ones — but they've been sitting in your head for months while the space keeps annoying you. If you're a chronic DIY-er who's tried to start a room makeover and just... hasn't, this is for you. The problem isn't your taste or your budget. It's where you're putting the pressure. Here's the method I use every single time — and why it works even when nothing else has.

When Chad Everett of The Alchemist Papers talks about alchemy, he's not talking about mystical theory — he's talking about the quiet, unglamorous, and deeply private process of becoming. The tiny shifts. The coming back. The consistency that most people overlook because it doesn't look like transformation from the outside.

That's exactly why I wanted Chad on Alchemy Transmissions.

We found each other on Instagram the way kindred spirits often do — through the content, through the resonance, through the mutual recognition of someone who is actually doing the work, not just writing about it. Chad has a rare gift: he takes the most potent and difficult moments of the human experience — the identity ruptures, the liminal spaces, the ho-hum days that don't feel magical at all — and transmutes them into something you can actually use.

In this month's transmission, Chad opened up about what drew him to alchemical practice, what people most misunderstand about this work, how his home has become both a reflection and a refuge for his inner life, and what he wishes more people understood: that the experience itself is the alchemy. You don't rush through it. You don't fix it. You live it.

This conversation left me with gold.

There's a reason "how do I make my home look like me?" is one of the most searched questions on the internet right now. We've been cycling through trends for so long that most of us have lost the thread back to ourselves — and our homes show it.

I know this from the inside. At the worst point in my life, I was performing success for the world while coming home every night to an Ikea coffee table and a Walmart futon. My inner and outer worlds didn't just fail to match — they were strangers to each other.

What I've learned since then — through years of healing, a few important breakdowns, and ultimately through every home I've lived in — is that your space isn't just decoration. It's a record of where you are with yourself.

The seven steps below aren't a trend guide. They're what I'd do if everything fell apart tomorrow and I needed to find my way back. They're also, not coincidentally, the exact methodology behind the Foundry Formula — because this is always where real home styling begins.