Learn how to make your home feel like you — without hiring an interior designer
Summary:
Popular DYI interior design advice relies too heavily on generic “tips & tricks,” which is why you feel frustrated, stuck, overwhelm and confused trying to decorate your house on your own. Before you design, you need to figure out why you’re stuck in the first place, and then use the decorating strategy that’s right for you to create an authentic-feeling home.
“How do I style my home authentically?”
Dude, I’m so burned out on the word “authentic.” We’ve beaten it to death. We don’t even feel anything when we hear it— which sucks because it’s the whole point of everything!
On one hand, it’s great that being authentic has become so mainstream, because if we actually took it to heart and focused (no, like actually) on living authentically, we’d all be a lot happier.
But with mainstream awareness comes well, mainstream behavior. Suddenly everyone’s googling, “How do I design an authentic home?” as if someone else can tell you how to do. What they’re missing is that the key is learning to listen to yourself first.
Authenticity is something you slowly unearth, peeling away everything you’ve piled onto yourself that’s not really you.
And it’s something you cultivate by trying things out, following your curiosity, and allowing yourself to love what you love out in the open — right inside your home.
You’re the only one who can create an authentic home.
This isn’t a hard thing to do once you understand the way your home mirrors your energy. Right now, it’s reflecting exactly what you’ve put into it. It’s quite literally a reflection of your life.
If you want to change what you see every day, you have to actually change it. And that’s the simple hard part. But that’s where the transformation begins.
How to Find Your Authentic Style
If you’re asking this question, you’re probably having one or more of these issues:
You don’t know your style at all because you’ve never had the chance to find it, or you feel like you lost it a long time ago
You know what you want, but you’re too burned out to do anything about it. You probably just want to snap your fingers and have it be done
You just can’t quite figure it out. You try, but somehow everything you add or change still just doesn’t land, or sometimes makes the situation worse
You can decorate well, but you’re not sure how to actually create your own style instead of following Pinterest ideas or trends
Before you can do anything, you need to know why you’re stuck in the first place.
Every home and every authentic style is one of one
How to Actually Design Your Home
Once you figure out why you’re stuck, you have to move in the way that’s going to work for you.
That’s why I get so frustrated with DIY advice — it’s way too generic. You end up feeling like you suck at decorating, when you just don’t know the right strategy for you.
Inside the Home Alchemy Method, I use a do-it-together (DIT) approach to actually help you figure out why you’re stuck and what you need to be able to design the home that’s perfect for you.
For example, if you feel like you have never had your own style, or that you lost it a long time ago, you need someone who can help you learn how to figure out what you even like. You might not know what you like until you see it, and even then, you’re not sure what to do with it!
You can’t rush this — you have to figure it out a step at a time.
If you’re the person who kind of knows what they like but is hella burned out and can’t mentally put the pieces together, let alone commit to anything and follow through, then you need structural support. You need someone to plan and organize for you so you can actually hear yourself think. Once you see it together and you’re sure it will work, it’s a lot easier to bring the room together.
For the people who keep trying and missing the mark, you need clarity and direction. You’re probably an action taker, and you’re basically skipping the instruction manual. Once you know what works and why, you’re off to the races.
If you’re the person who has style, it’s just not yours, you need to build trust with yourself, and it helps to have someone to bounce ideas off of as you experiment with your house. Sometimes you don’t even know what’s actually true about yourself until someone asks the right question!
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Alchemize Your Home
This is what’s different about Alchemy of Home — we break down everything that’s not working and throw out all the “tips & tricks” that never got you anywhere to alchemize your home into the place that becomes a reflection of you — not a copy/paste Pinterest board or the room that’s just not quite right.
The Home Alchemy Method is a 7-Step Room Redesign framework that takes this DIT approach to not just decorate your house, but to alchemize your home.
I have every new student take the Home Alchemy Archetype Quiz so they can get a clear on where they’re stuck, what they need to do next to Alchemize their home. We find their style together, then we decorate to match in 7 easy steps.
If you want to take the Home Alchemy Archetype Quiz to start Alchemizing your home right now, you can do that below, and I’ll send you a detailed breakdown of your results so you can apply them to your space.
If you’ve never thought of home this way, but something is telling you that it sounds right, take the quiz and see what Alchemizing your home looks like.
Written from home,
Liz
