What's Your Decorating Era?
Quiz Results

Era: Cozy Minimalist

You're creating the home you've always wanted starting with the stuff you have right now.

You're doing it. You are actively making changes in your home, way to go! You aren't afraid to try something new, whether that means trying out the latest trend or declaring that you hate it. You're building your confidence and learning as you go and your home is looking better for it

You know shopping for pillows and seasonal decor is fun and you enjoy it, but you understand that your furniture arrangement and functional pieces like rugs, drapes and lighting will have the biggest impact on your home.

As a Cozy Minimalist you want the most amount of style with the least about of stuff. You get to decide how much "stuff" is too much or too little for your personal style.

YOU NEED TO KNOW
Every change counts!
They say decorating is supposed to be fun (and it often is) but that doesn't mean it's easy. You're using real time, real money and your real home. By now you've probably figured out that no one is born with the "decorating gene", it doesn't exist. You are learning what you like by making decisions. You are taking action and that makes all the difference.

Clarity comes from action, not thought.
-Marie Forleo

3 Decorating Tips
For the Cozy Minimalist

1. One way to let your house speak.

2. Casting a vision for your whole home.

3. The best, most annoying way to make decisions for your home.

Era: Welcoming Hostess

Everyone deserves a friend like you.

You're the one who volunteers her home for the party, the shower, the community group, the holiday gathering, the impromptu meetup. You value connection and you don't mind opening up your home to make sure it happens. The world needs more people like you.

YOU NEED TO KNOW
Hosting is never about the host
and hospitality is never about the house.

Some people who don't host on the regular falsely believe that those who host must do so because their house is done, ready and always clean. You and I know that's not true. You know your house isn't perfect but you've decided that it's more important to provide a place for connection that it is to have a home that's perfect.

As a Welcoming Hostess your focus is on creating a home that's ready to be used and enjoyed.

The size of your house doesn't dictate
the size of your hospitality.

3 Tips For the
Hosting Focused Decorator

1. Hosting tips for introverts like us.

2. Outdoor Hosting
The best tips to hosting a cozy outdoor gathering.

3. You Need a Hosting Playlist
Must have playlists and hosting music.

Era: Seasonal Stylist

You want your home to be in keeping with the season, you value nature and it shows.

You love changing up your home for the seasons. Your home is functional and pretty but it really shines when you add those extra seasonal touches. You look forward to every seasonal change and believe your home should be a reflection of what's happening in nature. Even if you don't live in an extreme climate with four distinct seasons, you like to find ways to welcome each season into your home.

You don't mind storing away a few things from season to season, but you also don't want to be a slave to decorative bins full of plastic decor for the rest of your life.

As a seasonal Stylist you are focused on creating a home that reflects creation so that you are more able to fully enjoy the season.

YOU NEED TO KNOW
When your home is ready for the SEASON, it's automatically ready for the celebrations within each season.

3 Tips For the
Seasonal Stylist

1. How not to decorate.

2. How to decorate with your five senses.

3. The secret pillow policy.

Bonus: if you're on Instagram watch my pillow reels
Part 1 and Part 2

Era: Soulful Stylist

You find meaning in the mundane.

You love stories, layers and anything with a sense of history.

You keep all your yearbooks, awards and lots of ticket stubs from past events. You want to be surrounded by meaningful beauty and you've go a natural flair for working these items into your home

Your friends and family love how you decorate and then proclaim they could 'never pull that off'. You've got a natural confidence because you find joy in surrounding yourself with what you love. You probably enjoy a bit of maximalism.

As a Soulful Stylist, you are focusing your efforts on the details and meaningful beauty.

YOU NEED TO KNOW
Don't scrub the soul out of your home.
-Mary Randolph Carter

3 Tips For the
Soulful Decorator

1. Instant Soul
My favorite way to add soul to my home.

2. Don't Waste Your Soul
One change that changed everything.

3. Make Your Own Plate Wall
How to create a plate wall.

Meet your home guide and teacher...

Hello!

I'm a design school drop out and New York Times bestselling author of three design books. I live with my husband, three grown boys, a dog and two cats in a 1905 Queen Anne Victorian. We've lived in 15 homes in the past 29 years: from rentals, to condos, tiny houses, historical mansions, builder grade, fixer-uppers and everything in between.

None of my homes were my perfect dream house. I've never had a huge decorating budget or a general contractor for a husband, and I don't love DIY projects unless I can finish them in 15 minutes.

But I still managed to love every place we've ever lived.
My past homes have been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Cottages and Bungalows, Ladies' Home Journal, The Wal Street Journal, USAToday and I was named a to 20 Creative by Christianity Today.

You do not need to wait for perfect circumstances
to perfectly enjoy the home you already have.

What's next?
Choose your own adventure:

1. The Cozy Minimal {List}: will now be coming to your inbox most every Thursday, with something for every decorating era. Over 100,000 subscribers look forward to this every week.

2. House Rules Podcast: brand new and all about home.

3. Follow along on Instagram.

Here's to home!