Have you ever been so excited about buying a piece of decor, maybe a piece of art, a rug, or pillows, that you realized it didn’t look right when you brought it home? Have you chosen the wrong paint color and had to repaint the entire room? Are you frustrated that you wasted so much time and money choosing all of these things wrong, the first time (or maybe even the second or third time)? Decorating difficulties like these can be incredibly frustrating, but they can all be solved by learning one thing: your unique decorating style.
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Your decorating style, or what I like to call your unique style DNA, is the first thing you should know when decorating your home.
If you don’t define your style first, you’ll keep choosing home decor items—pillows, curtains, artwork, paint colors—that don’t suit you, and you’ll waste a lot of time and money doing so.
But if you can really master your decorating style, you’ll save time and money and create a more stylish home that you love, too.
Here are four reasons why knowing your decorating style makes decorating your home a lot easier!
1. Knowing your decorating style gives you guidelines or bumpers.
This is by far one of the biggest reasons why you need to know your home decorating style.
You can love a lot of things when you go to the decor store or Target from Homesense, but you don’t have to bring them all home.
So, remember those tips, those little kids’ bowling alley bumpers? Designed to help guide the ball down the lane toward the pins, not here, there, and everywhere, even if the ball was thrown a little wildly, these bumpers provided success for beginners by keeping the ball on track.
Knowing your style gives you a framework to guide you. The good thing is that you choose this framework so that no one else can apply it and you don’t feel paralyzed by it. On the contrary, you can feel free by these guidelines.
2. Knowing your decorating style saves you time.
Imagine you walk into your favorite home decor store and ask for a lamp or search online and simply type in “table lamp.” How many results do you expect to get? How do you expect the salesperson to look at you when you tell them you want a lamp?
Well, your search results will give you 966 million results! (I googled it once when I was researching this.)
But if you know your style and can describe it with the right words too and add those words to your online search or when you talk to a salesperson in the store, it will reduce the huge number of options available to you.
Simply adding the words, for example, “French country” before “table lamp” in the same online search reduces the results by millions.
Having the vocabulary and words to describe your style means you’ll spend less time searching for the decor you want. And who doesn’t want to save some time?
3. Knowing your decorating style saves you money.
When you know your style, you won’t just buy whatever catches your eye in the store. You’ll also be able to make confident choices about what you like and what works in your home and what doesn’t. You’ll be able to easily say no to items that don’t fit your decided style, which can save you a lot of money.
Let’s take my style as an example. Honestly, I love a lot of things and appreciate a lot of decor styles, but I know what style works for me in our current home, so what pieces, rugs, curtains, and artwork fit that.
I have these guidelines that help me make my choices when I go shopping. So if I find something unique and interesting while shopping, that’s okay – it doesn’t mean I have to bring it home if I know it won’t fit the style I’ve chosen for my home.
It’s okay to appreciate other styles—that doesn’t mean you have to have them in your space.
By following the guidelines I set for myself with my unique decorating style, I no longer waste money on things that won’t fit my space.
4. Knowing your decorating style gives you confidence.
One of the things my readers, friends, and other moms have told me is that they lack confidence and have a hard time choosing decor.
But when you know your home decorating style and stop wasting time and money on the wrong things (and start choosing the right things for your home over and over again), you’ll start to feel confident in your choices.
summary
Your decorating style, or what I like to call your unique style, DNA, is the first thing you should know when decorating your home, because every other decorating decision you make is based on the style you like.
Knowing your decorating style will save you a lot of money and help you create a more stylish home that you love faster!
When you know your style, you will be able to:
Get guidance on what to choose for your home. Get the right descriptive words when gathering inspiration or shopping for your home. You’ll save time and money when shopping for decor and designing your home. You’ll be confident in your design choices
All of this will make decorating your home much easier for you.
How to Find Your Decorating Style
If you don’t know your decorating style, but now you realize how important it is when decorating your home, check out my other post on how to identify your unique decorating style. In this post, I give you the steps you need to take to find your unique style and exactly what to do to find your unique decorating style.
Do you know your decorating style yet? Did you take a fun quiz to help you find it? Let me know what your style is – if you know it – below in the comments!
