I agree I have lots of big undraped windows! Except my bedroom, which I love to dramatically throw open my curtains in the morning. I also agree, a made bed is a game changer, (not that I do it everyday.:0)
Thank you, all great easy to remember tips! Never heard of before and just signed up for Milanote🎉🎉 to start designing my new salon!! Thanks, Paige! Also, for me having even one beautiful flower next to my bed (fragrant if possible) feels like a present when going to bed or waking up to.
I need more rug content. I feel like asking for rug advice is akin to asking for help finding true love. Totally agree that flowers, plants and open windows are crucial to feeling like a real human.
@@ruthsorensen1783 I honestly just always go for a neutral jute rug because I’m so damn indecisive and they’re relatively cheap. Rugs are so hard! Maybe one of these days I’ll actually make a decision and get something nice.
People need hobbies. Even if you’re not artistic having paints and colors to play is still fun. Little things to spark creativity and even a candle making kit and stuff like that.
I just did candles recycling from materials what I had left...As I was couple days on flu. It was so relaxing, when I had all the time in the day to do them. Since it's been maybe couple years from last time I did. And I was surprised how I started to feel like the stove coming "alive" on a different way. I felt like it didn't want I store any pots and pans on it, if it's not on the use. I know most people gonna do eyerolls on this but I just thought to share anyway! :)
"Rugs cure depression" and the nod afterwards 😂 I must not have enough rugs lol. Interiors are SO important. I’ve got a chronic illness so I’m pretty much home all the time. I’ve been making little changes and updates over the past year in my furniture, but I’ve focused lots on lighting and buying flowers every week. Tulips are my favorite flowers, so I pick those whenever I can find them! Oh, and I’ve finally hung up art on my walls. That’s fun too. 😊
These are all great ideas! Another thing I like to do that can quickly change the mood of your home is to spend a few minutes every day cleaning something. It doesn’t have to be a full deep clean but just something that will make you feel like you’ve accomplished something. Sometimes I’ll set a timer for a half hour and just tidy, clean or organize. It always makes my space feel better. And it’s free!
Wake up, turn on my favorite jazz station, get dress, open blinds and windows, make bed, go for a walk and pick a flower from my neighbors garden (try to not get caught), light a candle, make a hot drink or food, open laptop, rinse and repeat. This is totally my routine on a good day. Will try to be consistent this week and see if I'm a bit happier!
I don't disagree with any of your points but I would like to add one more, declutter. At least twice a year I go through cupboards and drawers and clear out anything I haven't used or no longer like. Stuff is important but space is equally important. Clearing out the clutter always makes me feel lighter. I've currently got a little collection gathering in the hall. Once I've completed my declutter I'll take everything to a charity shop, I think that's what you call good will?
Yes! Decluttering is a huge, huge deal for me about how the space feels!! Also keeping up a certain level of good enough cleanliness such as dishes, trash, recycling, and clothes not piling up too much.
100% agree, great content Paige! I work with flowers and will hear people say that they don’t buy flowers because they die. This AHA moment came when having flowers in my home , I will take a second when I pass them and touch the petals or just look at the color. They allow space to be in the “now”. Isn’t that worth something? I think so 😊🌸. ❤
This one was great, Paige. Environment is so crucial. A sad space can turn you even sadder. I actually had to bail on a relation b/c the space was so sad, it eroded the bond. I moved and have nothing save for a sofa and chair. But the home is historic, cozy, and CLEAN. A clean home, some flowers, and killer music can be transformational!
I’m a stay at home mom of 3 little kids and a design junkie and I’m living for your channel while I’m so bogged down with them right now! Thank you. I love it.
Thank you Paige! My husband is constantly bugging me about me about rearranging furniture,…he thinks I’m crazy…but no I’m making our home into a fantastic new adventure every single day! Yeah me!❤️
My home is the opposite of sad! This is the first time in 67 years that I am in love with my home. I like my night stands, but I will be upgrading them soon. And I need a duvet for my bed, then my home will be complete and beautiful. Perfect for my own personal style. I still love listening to decorating you-tube chanels. My blinds are almost never closed. I need light! I live alone and don't ever want a roommate again! I have faux flowers and must be careful with real flowers, because I have cats. I have 60+ real plants (a few bloom). I have a rug or runner in every room.
I also have cats and the only real flowers I buy are gerber daisies. They are 💯 percent non toxic to cats! I like to mix them with my faux florals and the result is always great!
I found that decor pieces that had the biggest impact on my cozy levels are a nice rug in the entryway (pretty to look at, soft on my feet, dog likes it) and a nice warm lamp in the living room (soft light, doesn’t create a glare on the tv, gives just enough light to be useful). Game changers.
Thank you for being the first legit person to ever talk about our home environment, and the impact on mental health. I feel like I have had such neurosis over this for too long - and I cannot tell you how refreshing to hear I am not alone. 😅❤ …Also, is it just me, or do people get ‘stuck’ creatively / physically / emotionally when trying to decorate?! Can we please talk more about this? I feel like I have a clear sense of what I like, but I feel like I have been coping with an existential crisis trying to bring harmony to each room of our c.1790 home. It feels harder than it should some days. Just decorating a house, not developing a cure for a major illness!
Before we built our house we lived in a 35 year old single wide trailer for 15 years. I was very grateful to have a home, but I fully admit I hated it so much. I did all I could to make the inside nice, but what I found was making outdoor spaces made me so much happier! My dad made me a little fire pit for Christmas one year and I made such a wonderful little secret garden outside, it truly was my place of solace ❤
Great video. Love how you approached sadness or “mental health” topics in a seemingly unrelated area (int. Design) without resorting to corniness or cheap tik tok pop psychology self help babble. Just in passing you referred to your own sadness and a shitty year past; no drama, no manipulative tear eyed shot. There’s some real elegance in that attitude.
Yes! I have three lamps illuminating my kitchen because I hate the fluorescent tube light in there. My housemates kindly stopped using the ceiling light and we've used the lamps for three years. It's such a dark lil space, so we have the lamps on 24/7. It's so cosy and makes our kitchen such a special lil late night hub of conversations over herbal tea and chocolate with each other and friends. Magical✨
Growing up I remember my single mom always getting flowers from the market or grocery store for herself. She would say that you don’t have to wait to have someone give them to you and it just gave her joy to have them around the house. I’ve followed the same mantra and it does cheer up the room no matter how big or small the flower or plant is.
We moved constantly when I was growing up and my mom is very very into interiors so our house was constantly changing. It really does give you that high and the experimenting with layouts and such can help you find a flow that allows the good energy to really flow in your space. Fresh air!! Yes!! Maybe because my mom is European .. it doesn’t seem to be a thing a lot of north American’s do daily (if ever .. I swear all my neighbours are hermetically sealed into their homes) but even on the coldest days (and I’m in Canada so I’m talking serious cold) I open a window for at least 10 min every day to just get the funk out of the house. No amount of scented candles or air fresheners can come close to crisp fresh air. The one thing I really struggle with is rugs. I low key hate them. I love them when they’re well done in other people’s spaces, but I kinda hate them in my own house. I dunno why …. I totally agree they finish a space off and add that warmth and what not, but I can’t commit. I tried a few times and I just grew so tired of them. I feel like they’re so expensive and I cannot decide what style I would want to live with long term … also currently I have a cat that for some baffling reason will pee on anything that is remotely soft on the floor. My curtains cannot touch the floor or she will pee on them. It’s my excuse for not having any ….. its the one home decor area that I have zero confidence in. It’s overwhelming.
I like to observe people, including their home environment and cars. I know middle aged people who still use cobbled together furnitures like college kids, cheap kitchen things, tattered linens. They didn’t see the sadness nor cared. A few of my coworkers’ cars are filled with trash and things. They aren’t homeless, just don’t care about all the fast food wrappers and soda cups in the backseat. Now I live in a retirement park, many of my elderly neighbors have interior and furnitures from 1970s. They don’t see anything sad about it. They live yet they don’t see anything they live with. It’s personality I guess. I could never not care about my furniture, dishes, linen, and textile. I’ve been like this for as long as I could remember. I used to forbade my mom to clean my room because I didn’t want her to touch my things that I arranged just so.
I totally agree with what you mentioned about being an introvert and needing your own space and the importance of separating rooms. I am also an introvert and I have always been so against open concept spaces. You are super right about the importance of environment. Two years ago, I decided to makeover my bedroom which was left unchanged since I was 12 years old. I remember feeling that sensation that I just didn't want to be there because it was a room designed by 12 year old me and of course I had outgrown it. My mood drastically changed when I got rid of the purple walls (yes, grape purple). It felt like like a grown up room and in line with my transition into adulthood. Now I love hanging out in my room to the point that my family worries that I spend too much time in there lol.
I'm looking forward to your new series. It's so true about your home adding to your sense of well being. I like when I walk into my house after a long day at work and it feels like it's giving me a hug.
Rearranging is my favorite thing to do! Keeps me from feeling like I always need something new to get a new look and it definitely improves my mood. I also repaint whenever I get bored of a room color but that’s a touch more effort than just moving things around lol
I love what you said about having separate rooms. We turned our unused dining room into my sons playroom, with a TV. Our living room is where me and my husband hang out, and we can still see him from our couch in our own room.
I like to move my furniture around with the change of seasons. Its a bit of work as I include deep cleaning at the same time. It always picks me up! I have a lot of color in the apt ALWAYS. Very important!
I'm in the process of redoing my living room and I mostly pulled together stuff I already own from other rooms in the house and I am amazed at how good it is turning out. I bought one more (accent) lamp (thanks to your lighting fixation!) and I am replacing two chairs with a couch but I already had the rug, coffee table, tv credenza thing, velvet chair, throw pillows, plants, and coffee table books. Oh and I bought some candle stick holders at a thrift store and new candles for them. It definitely makes me happy. The biggest thing I did was actually get rid of a bunch of stuff in the room. Still need some more art work for the walls but that will take some time as I plan on thrifting that.
Omg I had this idea of interior design consulting without buying anything a few months ago! I haven't had any clients yet but I want to start a movement. People don't usually need new furniture they just need help staging and styling. Can't wait for this series.
I've always felt that my home is the only thing I can really control, it's mine, it's where I EXIST, so it should feel good, be my refuge from the world when need be. I recently came up with the idea of seasonal decor. I don't mean holiday decor! And just changing out a few kinds of things: some art, pillows, decorative objects (mostly antique glass). Each season has a theme and color scheme. I'm still gathering the items I want, but I already do this in my bedroom, and it's so nice to have a fresh look to get in the mood for the season! I would love to get a living room rug. But I'm a renter with wall-to-wall carpet, and interior designers says you shouldn't put area rugs on top of carpets.
I’ve seen lots of designers suggest putting rugs over boring carpet. I suppose if you have like shag carpet it wouldn’t work, but on standard boring flat rental type carpets it definitely can work!
@@jenniferclyde8911 Really? I do have a shag carpet, and it's terribly cheap. The pile is so sparse that it can't stand up very well. Which is nearly deadly on the edges of the stairs! They're like slides.
So I guess I can get a rug! 😄 I have to get some more furniture first, though, I'm trying to get a sofa I like. I'm not into modern, so that's difficult. Or maybe re-upholster, like Paige did.
That subscriber home rearrangement is a great concept! After following your channel week after week, I have really loved your tips! They're fairly approachable even with a small budget, like getting cool lamps and adding small hints of rich colors or subtle prints, and your reference pictures have helped me challenge myself more by mixing colors in my home, and adding flowers occasionally.
Watching this channel has largely increased my candle use. I now get people commenting on my homes lighting. I agree w making your bed to start the day with a great win and decluttered looking space.
Great job Paige, so informative and I actually am having a wake up call here. My house looks like I feel, the only thing I do from your list is make my bed everyday. I don't want to buy flowers but I do have plants. I just need to work on my house and you gave me some great ideas. Kudos Paige!
Rearranging my apartment is my favourite thing to do. Stops me impulse buying and I strongly feel that the mood boost from switching over lamps should be medically investigated!
Great idea for the new series, that will be fun. 😊 I’m probably one of your oldest subscribers. I lived alone (major introvert) from 19 years old till 45 when I got married. My advice for making your house happy would be to plant a garden. I’ve moved around and rented a lot and was always able to make a garden. Even if it’s a container garden, it’s always rewarding to be able to cut your own flowers.
Love this video, Paige! I agree with all your points. I like rearranging even a drawer or stuff on an end table. It does change how a person feels. Looking forward to the next video for sure!
One thing that makes me happy in a room to see something I have made such as macrame hanging. Also orange makes me happy so have at least one orange thing in each room!
What a great idea to do over someone’s room. I live in Canada so I’m out but I’ll be watching for sure. I change your things often and I love my space. I’m in to candles as well but I like mine scented. I’m an old lady but love watching you young people design. ❤
The Architecture of Happiness, a FANTASTIC book by Alain de Botton delves into this exact topic. It is actually insane how many people don't consider how much their physical environment (and a lack of "beauty") will affect their mood, their day-to-day experience, their happiness. Highly recommended!
I would love a bigger video on rug styles and how you recommend to balance them with the rest of the furniture/decor! I always get overwhelmed and get something boring.
Separate spaces! The open concept really kills me. I love that my little apartment has a completely separate living room from my kitchen. It’s rare for small apartments, but my apartment is actually an old house that was cut up into different units. So, it has vintage kitchen tiles and an actual door between the living room and kitchen.
I would love if you could talk about tips for making a space look nicer when it has very ugly unchangeable features - such as beige wall to wall carpet, old fake wood AC unit that is built into the wall, base boards that were painted to look like dark wood... basically my apartment is stuck in the 70s in a bad way!
Try drawing attention to details. Would it work to get a rug you really liked and just place it over the carpet? Could you draw attention away from ugliness that you don’t like with lighting, wall, art, etc. I think it’s all about contrast and if you can create focal points, it could really help a lot. Play the color theme. That’s already going on so it looks purposeful. It sounds like you could use natural colors and warm tones. Good luck!
I can attest to this 100%. We’re currently living with family in their home and it feels like we’re just pitching a tent or in an airbnb. Mentally we’ve felt pretty blue. Thankfully we’ll be doing renovations and making the space more our own. I’ll definitely be incorporating these ideas in the meantime as well as after renovations occur. Thank you for the practical and inspiring advice!
Great video. I feel happy playing with my apartment, developing it. Sometimes just with the small items you mention, like fresh flowers, or a candle. Sometimes with larger dreams, like now I ordered new roman blinds, because my windowtreatment was old and very sad. I like silence, always music can make me feel anxious. But often I do love soft playing music too. All in good time. And very important, I love that my livingroom is separate form my small kitchen, I placed a little wall. So it can really be cozy in my sittingroom, without seeing the dirty dishes in the kitchen. My place is small, 473 ft2, so every small corner counts.
I rearrange my stuff about once a week or every few days... As a retired Montessori teacher we learned the environment has to be inviting to entice children to learn and appreciate beauty. So, now, I have to move things around because I love seeing my treasures in new places.
I so agree with the main point in this video. I’ve always been a homebody and even when I was in college dorms, I had to love every piece of decor to make me feel at home or happy when I looked at it. Most difficult time in my life was moving into my SO’s small NYC place prior to Covid that had no natural light. I even detested the walk to the subway so I ended up cabbing everywhere. When we finally were able to move to a bigger, light filled place and start more fresh with new furniture that reflects us both, it was an instant boost!!!
Books and photographs make a place feel like home; a framed family photo, or a blown-up landscape from a favorite trip make you happy every time you look at them. You didn’t talk about smell. One of my favorite parts of coming home is walking into my apartment and being greeted by the scent of lemongrass. I used reed defusers ( which I find tacky, so they are hidden behind other things) and my house always smells like very posh and serene spa in Bali.
Glad you brought up architectural elements at 1:30. I just talked about it with my roommate the other day! We think that it does really matter how much character a space has. Our rental apartment is very blank and has a weird layout. Higher ceilings, real wood floors and some ceiling ornaments would be an absolute dream. Plus, I feel like these kinda details give a 'direction' of how to furnish a place. Somehow furnishing my place like a Parisian apartment or New York loft while it's just a box shaped space makes me feel like a fraud!
I’m always changing things around, opening blinds and windows even in the 🇨🇦 winter. I’m paring way back on decorative items and would love tips on how to keep it interesting but minimal and include some colour, not just neutral as most minimal or warm minimal searches show.
I’m excited for the new series and I always want to hear about light. I would love a video just about light, I use my lamps but they don’t seem to create that nice mood at night.
Tip For Paige. To prevent tulip droop. Put in water when you get home, leaving the cellophane on. After 2 hours, remove the plastic and put them back in the vase with water. Tulips will be and stay perky.
I like the blanket over the sofa idea. I once bought a 9x11 canvas paint drop cloth and covered my couch with it. It looked good and was cheap. Win! Win!
Great idea to redo a space without purchasing anything! Will be eagerly waiting for this. Sad homes...I like the idea of small changes, flowers, away spaces. You give great advice!
This one really hit a nerve Paige. I think I have a lovely home with things I’ve spent decades collecting. But I go to friends houses, and I’m instantly out of my comfort zone. They often have fluorescent lighting- not kidding, plastic plants or no plants, furniture shoved up against walls, bulky oversized leather sofas, bare coffee tables, no rugs, no pictures on walls….you get the picture. And I always wonder how on earth they they seem so happy. I want to top myself after 10 minutes, haha!! I agree with everything you said and I’m so affected by my environment. (But then- I am a designer).
This was fun to read your comment! Lol, I feel so bad when I don’t like my “friend’s environment” and you did a great job describing the scene. Locally, most of my friends, get it somewhat, but like you, I’m a designer, so I take it next level and it’s my daily obsession. It’s just how I live my life… Natural lighting, open windows, all the elements; water, fire, plants, etc.. I’m also extremely sensitive to my environment so I noticed things like a placement and flow and I can’t help but fix things wherever I am. People aren’t conscious of it, but they do feel the difference. I use nature is my inspiration. Nature is always changing, there’s Harmony, but not repetition, etc. some of us just have this sense and it’s up to us to help others create an environment. That makes them feel amazing! We are not all good accountants! L O L.
Don't be sad if your place is small!! For me, the size of my home has never been as important as how I can work with the space. One of my favorites places I've ever lived was a 335 sq foot apartment. If funds are low, get a small, less-expensive place and make that your creative space -- spend 3 years living there getting it the way you want it! Small places are the best.
I tried the blanket sofa idea (why didn’t I think of that before?!) and it literally improved my living room in an instant. I have been saving up to get the sofa reupholstered but this has made it so much more bearable in the meantime. Thank you so much Paige!😍
you describe exaclty the "away room".....every house needs a room where you can retreat from the activity of the house. Architect Sarah Susanka describes this in her books, the Not So Big Series. you should definitely check out her books, some of it dated, but many principles are totally timeless. My local library has the whole series and I have checked out repeatedly and learned so much from them.
That's the sign I needed to sew an new and colorful bedspread, I have a only 12m2 appartement and that will change a lot :D Thank you for your great videos!
Everything but the rug! Lol! I love all the tips and am going to go out and get flowers RIGHT NOW, but I just hate rugs. I have super beautiful wood floors and just can’t cover them up. Although…I do love runners.
The music everyday is such a big one for me, music has always been a huge part of my life, my parents always had music playing, so us kids grew up enjoying it and i don't think i could function without it, it keeps you company, lifts mood and is also about connection. (intermittent dance parties are also a must!) I too agree with opening blinds and windows, so helpful for feeling happy. lovely video: )
This is so spot on. Furniture you like & a little something you feel is special or fun makes your living space so much better which makes me feel so much better.
I absolutely agree with everything you said and I do most of them routinely, but I forgot about flowers. It's been ages since I had flowers and I'm going to start having them again all the time.
My home is definitely sad. At least the decor is. My husband and I are happy and comfortable but we need to buff up the shades, art, pillows, etc. to make it feel finished.
What boosts my mood *instantly* is walking around barefoot. It connects me to the place, it connects me to myself. So I would make it a rule to always have perfectly clean floors. I also feel grounded by sitting on the floor so I make sure to have thick and comfy carpets and wide pillows specifically for sitting on.
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I agree I have lots of big undraped windows! Except my bedroom, which I love to dramatically throw open my curtains in the morning. I also agree, a made bed is a game changer, (not that I do it everyday.:0)
Thank you, all great easy to remember tips! Never heard of before and just signed up for Milanote🎉🎉 to start designing my new salon!! Thanks, Paige! Also, for me having even one beautiful flower next to my bed (fragrant if possible) feels like a present when going to bed or waking up to.
I need more rug content. I feel like asking for rug advice is akin to asking for help finding true love. Totally agree that flowers, plants and open windows are crucial to feeling like a real human.
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sameeee. why is finding a good rug the hardest thing I’ve ever attempted
@@ruthsorensen1783 I honestly just always go for a neutral jute rug because I’m so damn indecisive and they’re relatively cheap. Rugs are so hard! Maybe one of these days I’ll actually make a decision and get something nice.
Super excited for the new series!!
Check Etsy for beautiful vintage rugs!!
People need hobbies. Even if you’re not artistic having paints and colors to play is still fun. Little things to spark creativity and even a candle making kit and stuff like that.
Especially as an adult, I feel the need to find a hobby other than drinking or eating with friends or watching YT.
Soo true!
I want a hobby but I hate DIY
I completely agree. You don’t have to be good u just have to have fun
I just did candles recycling from materials what I had left...As I was couple days on flu. It was so relaxing, when I had all the time in the day to do them. Since it's been maybe couple years from last time I did. And I was surprised how I started to feel like the stove coming "alive" on a different way. I felt like it didn't want I store any pots and pans on it, if it's not on the use. I know most people gonna do eyerolls on this but I just thought to share anyway! :)
"Rugs cure depression" and the nod afterwards 😂 I must not have enough rugs lol.
Interiors are SO important. I’ve got a chronic illness so I’m pretty much home all the time. I’ve been making little changes and updates over the past year in my furniture, but I’ve focused lots on lighting and buying flowers every week. Tulips are my favorite flowers, so I pick those whenever I can find them! Oh, and I’ve finally hung up art on my walls. That’s fun too. 😊
Me too! It’s so important! Wishing you well with your health🌻
These are all great ideas! Another thing I like to do that can quickly change the mood of your home is to spend a few minutes every day cleaning something. It doesn’t have to be a full deep clean but just something that will make you feel like you’ve accomplished something. Sometimes I’ll set a timer for a half hour and just tidy, clean or organize. It always makes my space feel better. And it’s free!
Yes, so true!
The cleanliness of my home is the one thing I have control over! 😢
Wake up, turn on my favorite jazz station, get dress, open blinds and windows, make bed, go for a walk and pick a flower from my neighbors garden (try to not get caught), light a candle, make a hot drink or food, open laptop, rinse and repeat. This is totally my routine on a good day. Will try to be consistent this week and see if I'm a bit happier!
YES. It’s simple but effective!
I don't disagree with any of your points but I would like to add one more, declutter. At least twice a year I go through cupboards and drawers and clear out anything I haven't used or no longer like. Stuff is important but space is equally important. Clearing out the clutter always makes me feel lighter. I've currently got a little collection gathering in the hall. Once I've completed my declutter I'll take everything to a charity shop, I think that's what you call good will?
Yes! Decluttering is a huge, huge deal for me about how the space feels!! Also keeping up a certain level of good enough cleanliness such as dishes, trash, recycling, and clothes not piling up too much.
You can not organize or decorate clutter. Clutter brings sadness and anxiety. Dont make your bed but do the dishes daily.
100% agree, great content Paige! I work with flowers and will hear people say that they don’t buy flowers because they die. This AHA moment came when having flowers in my home , I will take a second when I pass them and touch the petals or just look at the color. They allow space to be in the “now”. Isn’t that worth something? I think so 😊🌸. ❤
This one was great, Paige. Environment is so crucial. A sad space can turn you even sadder. I actually had to bail on a relation b/c the space was so sad, it eroded the bond.
I moved and have nothing save for a sofa and chair. But the home is historic, cozy, and CLEAN. A clean home, some flowers, and killer music can be transformational!
I’m a stay at home mom of 3 little kids and a design junkie and I’m living for your channel while I’m so bogged down with them right now! Thank you. I love it.
I can not even explain how much I enjoy your content. I feel like your content is relatable, and you keep it real.
Same. I feel like I'm watching a friend. Love her channel.
Thank you Paige! My husband is constantly bugging me about me about rearranging furniture,…he thinks I’m crazy…but no I’m making our home into a fantastic new adventure every single day! Yeah me!❤️
My home is the opposite of sad! This is the first time in 67 years that I am in love with my home. I like my night stands, but I will be upgrading them soon. And I need a duvet for my bed, then my home will be complete and beautiful. Perfect for my own personal style. I still love listening to decorating you-tube chanels. My blinds are almost never closed. I need light! I live alone and don't ever want a roommate again! I have faux flowers and must be careful with real flowers, because I have cats. I have 60+ real plants (a few bloom). I have a rug or runner in every room.
I also have cats and the only real flowers I buy are gerber daisies. They are 💯 percent non toxic to cats! I like to mix them with my faux florals and the result is always great!
i love the concept of rearranging your room without buyign anything! this video was so good. i could listen to you talk about anything!!
Thank you for talking about the connection between mental health and your living space ❤️
I found that decor pieces that had the biggest impact on my cozy levels are a nice rug in the entryway (pretty to look at, soft on my feet, dog likes it) and a nice warm lamp in the living room (soft light, doesn’t create a glare on the tv, gives just enough light to be useful). Game changers.
I love how you bring the mental health factor and how your home affects it❤️
Thank you for being the first legit person to ever talk about our home environment, and the impact on mental health. I feel like I have had such neurosis over this for too long - and I cannot tell you how refreshing to hear I am not alone. 😅❤ …Also, is it just me, or do people get ‘stuck’ creatively / physically / emotionally when trying to decorate?! Can we please talk more about this? I feel like I have a clear sense of what I like, but I feel like I have been coping with an existential crisis trying to bring harmony to each room of our c.1790 home. It feels harder than it should some days. Just decorating a house, not developing a cure for a major illness!
Before we built our house we lived in a 35 year old single wide trailer for 15 years. I was very grateful to have a home, but I fully admit I hated it so much. I did all I could to make the inside nice, but what I found was making outdoor spaces made me so much happier!
My dad made me a little fire pit for Christmas one year and I made such a wonderful little secret garden outside, it truly was my place of solace ❤
Sweet Dad! ❤
Great video. Love how you approached sadness or “mental health” topics in a seemingly unrelated area (int. Design) without resorting to corniness or cheap tik tok pop psychology self help babble. Just in passing you referred to your own sadness and a shitty year past; no drama, no manipulative tear eyed shot. There’s some real elegance in that attitude.
I took your advice to add a cute little lamp to my kitchen. What a game changer! Seriously makes the room way more chill to hang out.
I just bought a little vintage lamp for my kitchen at an antique show this weekend. And now my life is complete. 😄
Little Kitchen Lamp Club member here… it makes me SO happy omg.
Kitchen lamps also cure depression
@@wasselpa you know they really do.
Yes! I have three lamps illuminating my kitchen because I hate the fluorescent tube light in there. My housemates kindly stopped using the ceiling light and we've used the lamps for three years. It's such a dark lil space, so we have the lamps on 24/7. It's so cosy and makes our kitchen such a special lil late night hub of conversations over herbal tea and chocolate with each other and friends. Magical✨
Growing up I remember my single mom always getting flowers from the market or grocery store for herself. She would say that you don’t have to wait to have someone give them to you and it just gave her joy to have them around the house. I’ve followed the same mantra and it does cheer up the room no matter how big or small the flower or plant is.
We moved constantly when I was growing up and my mom is very very into interiors so our house was constantly changing. It really does give you that high and the experimenting with layouts and such can help you find a flow that allows the good energy to really flow in your space. Fresh air!! Yes!! Maybe because my mom is European .. it doesn’t seem to be a thing a lot of north American’s do daily (if ever .. I swear all my neighbours are hermetically sealed into their homes) but even on the coldest days (and I’m in Canada so I’m talking serious cold) I open a window for at least 10 min every day to just get the funk out of the house. No amount of scented candles or air fresheners can come close to crisp fresh air. The one thing I really struggle with is rugs. I low key hate them. I love them when they’re well done in other people’s spaces, but I kinda hate them in my own house. I dunno why …. I totally agree they finish a space off and add that warmth and what not, but I can’t commit. I tried a few times and I just grew so tired of them. I feel like they’re so expensive and I cannot decide what style I would want to live with long term … also currently I have a cat that for some baffling reason will pee on anything that is remotely soft on the floor. My curtains cannot touch the floor or she will pee on them. It’s my excuse for not having any ….. its the one home decor area that I have zero confidence in. It’s overwhelming.
I like to observe people, including their home environment and cars. I know middle aged people who still use cobbled together furnitures like college kids, cheap kitchen things, tattered linens. They didn’t see the sadness nor cared. A few of my coworkers’ cars are filled with trash and things. They aren’t homeless, just don’t care about all the fast food wrappers and soda cups in the backseat. Now I live in a retirement park, many of my elderly neighbors have interior and furnitures from 1970s. They don’t see anything sad about it. They live yet they don’t see anything they live with. It’s personality I guess. I could never not care about my furniture, dishes, linen, and textile. I’ve been like this for as long as I could remember. I used to forbade my mom to clean my room because I didn’t want her to touch my things that I arranged just so.
I totally agree with what you mentioned about being an introvert and needing your own space and the importance of separating rooms. I am also an introvert and I have always been so against open concept spaces.
You are super right about the importance of environment. Two years ago, I decided to makeover my bedroom which was left unchanged since I was 12 years old. I remember feeling that sensation that I just didn't want to be there because it was a room designed by 12 year old me and of course I had outgrown it. My mood drastically changed when I got rid of the purple walls (yes, grape purple). It felt like like a grown up room and in line with my transition into adulthood. Now I love hanging out in my room to the point that my family worries that I spend too much time in there lol.
I'm looking forward to your new series. It's so true about your home adding to your sense of well being. I like when I walk into my house after a long day at work and it feels like it's giving me a hug.
I have thought about you and your college family in Michigan. Prayers for you and your family, extended and immediate. Bless you little one.
Rearranging is my favorite thing to do! Keeps me from feeling like I always need something new to get a new look and it definitely improves my mood. I also repaint whenever I get bored of a room color but that’s a touch more effort than just moving things around lol
I love what you said about having separate rooms. We turned our unused dining room into my sons playroom, with a TV. Our living room is where me and my husband hang out, and we can still see him from our couch in our own room.
I like to move my furniture around with the change of seasons. Its a bit of work as I include deep cleaning at the same time. It always picks me up! I have a lot of color in the apt ALWAYS. Very important!
I'm in the process of redoing my living room and I mostly pulled together stuff I already own from other rooms in the house and I am amazed at how good it is turning out. I bought one more (accent) lamp (thanks to your lighting fixation!) and I am replacing two chairs with a couch but I already had the rug, coffee table, tv credenza thing, velvet chair, throw pillows, plants, and coffee table books. Oh and I bought some candle stick holders at a thrift store and new candles for them. It definitely makes me happy. The biggest thing I did was actually get rid of a bunch of stuff in the room. Still need some more art work for the walls but that will take some time as I plan on thrifting that.
Omg I had this idea of interior design consulting without buying anything a few months ago! I haven't had any clients yet but I want to start a movement. People don't usually need new furniture they just need help staging and styling. Can't wait for this series.
I've always felt that my home is the only thing I can really control, it's mine, it's where I EXIST, so it should feel good, be my refuge from the world when need be.
I recently came up with the idea of seasonal decor. I don't mean holiday decor! And just changing out a few kinds of things: some art, pillows, decorative objects (mostly antique glass). Each season has a theme and color scheme. I'm still gathering the items I want, but I already do this in my bedroom, and it's so nice to have a fresh look to get in the mood for the season!
I would love to get a living room rug. But I'm a renter with wall-to-wall carpet, and interior designers says you shouldn't put area rugs on top of carpets.
I think you can put a rug over carpet! Especially if it’s bad carpet
I’ve seen lots of designers suggest putting rugs over boring carpet. I suppose if you have like shag carpet it wouldn’t work, but on standard boring flat rental type carpets it definitely can work!
@@jenniferclyde8911 Really? I do have a shag carpet, and it's terribly cheap. The pile is so sparse that it can't stand up very well. Which is nearly deadly on the edges of the stairs! They're like slides.
So I guess I can get a rug! 😄 I have to get some more furniture first, though, I'm trying to get a sofa I like. I'm not into modern, so that's difficult. Or maybe re-upholster, like Paige did.
Love the new concept of rearranging spaces with stuff you already own! Looking forward to that series!
I agree on so many of these points...the flowers, the music, the candles, the separate reading space, colour. Loved this!
Get rid of clutter. Huge impact.
the rearranging tip is SO good....
That subscriber home rearrangement is a great concept! After following your channel week after week, I have really loved your tips! They're fairly approachable even with a small budget, like getting cool lamps and adding small hints of rich colors or subtle prints, and your reference pictures have helped me challenge myself more by mixing colors in my home, and adding flowers occasionally.
Watching this channel has largely increased my candle use. I now get people commenting on my homes lighting. I agree w making your bed to start the day with a great win and decluttered looking space.
Great job Paige, so informative and I actually am having a wake up call here. My house looks like I feel, the only thing I do from your list is make my bed everyday. I don't want to buy flowers but I do have plants. I just need to work on my house and you gave me some great ideas. Kudos Paige!
Rearranging my apartment is my favourite thing to do. Stops me impulse buying and I strongly feel that the mood boost from switching over lamps should be medically investigated!
Great idea for the new series, that will be fun. 😊
I’m probably one of your oldest subscribers. I lived alone (major introvert) from 19 years old till 45 when I got married. My advice for making your house happy would be to plant a garden. I’ve moved around and rented a lot and was always able to make a garden. Even if it’s a container garden, it’s always rewarding to be able to cut your own flowers.
Love this video, Paige!
I agree with all your points.
I like rearranging even a drawer or stuff on an end table.
It does change how a person feels.
Looking forward to the next video for sure!
One thing that makes me happy in a room to see something I have made such as macrame hanging. Also orange makes me happy so have at least one orange thing in each room!
What a great idea to do over someone’s room. I live in Canada so I’m out but I’ll be watching for sure. I change your things often and I love my space. I’m in to candles as well but I like mine scented. I’m an old lady but love watching you young people design. ❤
The Architecture of Happiness, a FANTASTIC book by Alain de Botton delves into this exact topic. It is actually insane how many people don't consider how much their physical environment (and a lack of "beauty") will affect their mood, their day-to-day experience, their happiness. Highly recommended!
Thanks for the suggestions, including a candle while working. So cosy!
Paige persuaded me that flowers in the home are a necessity.
I’m a serial rearranger! It also helps me deep clean behind things when I move them around.
Thanks for the video! Agree 100%!
Ps: your hair looks beautiful
We are renovating our 1930’s forever home and I am so grateful for your content. I can’t wait for this new series!!
I would love a bigger video on rug styles and how you recommend to balance them with the rest of the furniture/decor! I always get overwhelmed and get something boring.
Separate spaces! The open concept really kills me. I love that my little apartment has a completely separate living room from my kitchen. It’s rare for small apartments, but my apartment is actually an old house that was cut up into different units. So, it has vintage kitchen tiles and an actual door between the living room and kitchen.
I would love if you could talk about tips for making a space look nicer when it has very ugly unchangeable features - such as beige wall to wall carpet, old fake wood AC unit that is built into the wall, base boards that were painted to look like dark wood... basically my apartment is stuck in the 70s in a bad way!
Try drawing attention to details. Would it work to get a rug you really liked and just place it over the carpet? Could you draw attention away from ugliness that you don’t like with lighting, wall, art, etc. I think it’s all about contrast and if you can create focal points, it could really help a lot. Play the color theme. That’s already going on so it looks purposeful. It sounds like you could use natural colors and warm tones. Good luck!
I can attest to this 100%. We’re currently living with family in their home and it feels like we’re just pitching a tent or in an airbnb. Mentally we’ve felt pretty blue. Thankfully we’ll be doing renovations and making the space more our own. I’ll definitely be incorporating these ideas in the meantime as well as after renovations occur. Thank you for the practical and inspiring advice!
Great video. I feel happy playing with my apartment, developing it. Sometimes just with the small items you mention, like fresh flowers, or a candle. Sometimes with larger dreams, like now I ordered new roman blinds, because my windowtreatment was old and very sad. I like silence, always music can make me feel anxious. But often I do love soft playing music too. All in good time. And very important, I love that my livingroom is separate form my small kitchen, I placed a little wall. So it can really be cozy in my sittingroom, without seeing the dirty dishes in the kitchen. My place is small, 473 ft2, so every small corner counts.
Hi I love your comments about needing a rug! So true, I think rugs anchor rooms.
I rearrange my stuff about once a week or every few days...
As a retired Montessori teacher we learned the environment has to be inviting to entice children to learn and appreciate beauty.
So, now, I have to move things around because I love seeing my treasures in new places.
This was an excellent show about being sad and making your house happy again!!!
I so agree with the main point in this video. I’ve always been a homebody and even when I was in college dorms, I had to love every piece of decor to make me feel at home or happy when I looked at it. Most difficult time in my life was moving into my SO’s small NYC place prior to Covid that had no natural light. I even detested the walk to the subway so I ended up cabbing everywhere. When we finally were able to move to a bigger, light filled place and start more fresh with new furniture that reflects us both, it was an instant boost!!!
Books and photographs make a place feel like home; a framed family photo, or a blown-up landscape from a favorite trip make you happy every time you look at them.
You didn’t talk about smell. One of my favorite parts of coming home is walking into my apartment and being greeted by the scent of lemongrass. I used reed defusers ( which I find tacky, so they are hidden behind other things) and my house always smells like very posh and serene spa in Bali.
Glad you brought up architectural elements at 1:30. I just talked about it with my roommate the other day! We think that it does really matter how much character a space has. Our rental apartment is very blank and has a weird layout. Higher ceilings, real wood floors and some ceiling ornaments would be an absolute dream. Plus, I feel like these kinda details give a 'direction' of how to furnish a place. Somehow furnishing my place like a Parisian apartment or New York loft while it's just a box shaped space makes me feel like a fraud!
I’m always changing things around, opening blinds and windows even in the 🇨🇦 winter. I’m paring way back on decorative items and would love tips on how to keep it interesting but minimal and include some colour, not just neutral as most minimal or warm minimal searches show.
I’m excited for the new series and I always want to hear about light. I would love a video just about light, I use my lamps but they don’t seem to create that nice mood at night.
Tip For Paige. To prevent tulip droop. Put in water when you get home, leaving the cellophane on. After 2 hours, remove the plastic and put them back in the vase with water. Tulips will be and stay perky.
Or, drop a penny in the water?
I like the blanket over the sofa idea. I once bought a 9x11 canvas paint drop cloth and covered my couch with it. It looked good and was cheap. Win! Win!
You should do this room makeover using only things people already have virtually! Including prop styling shelves. That would be super cool!!!
Great idea to redo a space without purchasing anything! Will be eagerly waiting for this. Sad homes...I like the idea of small changes, flowers, away spaces. You give great advice!
This one really hit a nerve Paige. I think I have a lovely home with things I’ve spent decades collecting. But I go to friends houses, and I’m instantly out of my comfort zone. They often have fluorescent lighting- not kidding, plastic plants or no plants, furniture shoved up against walls, bulky oversized leather sofas, bare coffee tables, no rugs, no pictures on walls….you get the picture. And I always wonder how on earth they they seem so happy. I want to top myself after 10 minutes, haha!! I agree with everything you said and I’m so affected by my environment. (But then- I am a designer).
This was fun to read your comment! Lol, I feel so bad when I don’t like my “friend’s environment” and you did a great job describing the scene. Locally, most of my friends, get it somewhat, but like you, I’m a designer, so I take it next level and it’s my daily obsession. It’s just how I live my life… Natural lighting, open windows, all the elements; water, fire, plants, etc..
I’m also extremely sensitive to my environment so I noticed things like a placement and flow and I can’t help but fix things wherever I am. People aren’t conscious of it, but they do feel the difference. I use nature is my inspiration. Nature is always changing, there’s Harmony, but not repetition, etc. some of us just have this sense and it’s up to us to help others create an environment. That makes them feel amazing! We are not all good accountants! L O L.
Check, check, check. You covered all the bases. Small things that engage your senses are really all you need to not have a sad home.
A re-watch episode for sure. Love this. thank you!
Love the title of this video. Keeping it real
Don't be sad if your place is small!! For me, the size of my home has never been as important as how I can work with the space. One of my favorites places I've ever lived was a 335 sq foot apartment. If funds are low, get a small, less-expensive place and make that your creative space -- spend 3 years living there getting it the way you want it! Small places are the best.
I tried the blanket sofa idea (why didn’t I think of that before?!) and it literally improved my living room in an instant. I have been saving up to get the sofa reupholstered but this has made it so much more bearable in the meantime. Thank you so much Paige!😍
Yeeeees. I do most of these things every day too. The windows and music and scents are key!
And flowers. I used to come home with a bouquet of flowers on nights out in college from the drunk walk home 😬🤣
Watching your videos is so soothing
you describe exaclty the "away room".....every house needs a room where you can retreat from the activity of the house. Architect Sarah Susanka describes this in her books, the Not So Big Series. you should definitely check out her books, some of it dated, but many principles are totally timeless. My local library has the whole series and I have checked out repeatedly and learned so much from them.
That's the sign I needed to sew an new and colorful bedspread, I have a only 12m2 appartement and that will change a lot :D Thank you for your great videos!
I love this video. You are so sweet giving everyone some inspiration.
Everything but the rug! Lol! I love all the tips and am going to go out and get flowers RIGHT NOW, but I just hate rugs. I have super beautiful wood floors and just can’t cover them up. Although…I do love runners.
I was waiting for your video, even went looking for it like 25min ago and found nothing and then this pops up! yay~
I’m here!! I normally don’t miss Sunday vids, Wednesday’s are a toss up though
Love your videos! Thank you and I’m jealous of the people of LA
Making my bed first thing in the morning definitely starts my day in the best way and it makes me happy throughout the day❤
The music everyday is such a big one for me, music has always been a huge part of my life, my parents always had music playing, so us kids grew up enjoying it and i don't think i could function without it, it keeps you company, lifts mood and is also about connection. (intermittent dance parties are also a must!) I too agree with opening blinds and windows, so helpful for feeling happy. lovely video: )
I can't wait for the redo without purchasing! Brilliant and will be so much fun!
This is so spot on. Furniture you like & a little something you feel is special or fun makes your living space so much better which makes me feel so much better.
I absolutely agree with everything you said and I do most of them routinely, but I forgot about flowers. It's been ages since I had flowers and I'm going to start having them again all the time.
I love your new rearranging-subscribers'- homes concept❣️ Can't wait to see those!
Looking forward to the new series! It's quite the challenge.
Your channel is quickly becoming one of my faves!
My home is definitely sad. At least the decor is. My husband and I are happy and comfortable but we need to buff up the shades, art, pillows, etc. to make it feel finished.
as long as you’re happy and comfy that’s all that matters!
Your outfit is freaking gorgeous. You should rock this East Coast vibe more often!
Enjoy your channel very much. Learning to love the home I have. Thank you!
Wow the new series is exciting!
Loooove your recent videos, just a comforting thing to watch and listen to!🥰🤩
Can’t wait for the new series !! ❤
Looking forward to new series. Great idea
Hate rugs, got rid of them. I love my wooden floor, every time I look at the floor it sparks joy, and it is so easy to clean
These are refreshing thoughts, I needed this, I need to create some vignette spaces, and a cozy reading nook in my guest room.
More grace and encouragement than expected. Good vid 🥰. Excited for you helping people that need it. 🙂🤗
What boosts my mood *instantly* is walking around barefoot. It connects me to the place, it connects me to myself. So I would make it a rule to always have perfectly clean floors. I also feel grounded by sitting on the floor so I make sure to have thick and comfy carpets and wide pillows specifically for sitting on.