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Updated on November 7, 2025March 16, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

Living Rooms for Living: How to Furnish Home Leisure Spaces

Back living room view of wall with two windows and white console table in between with TV screen on top and diamond-shaped mirror on wall above with a frame of seashells. Strung above the windows and mirror near ceiling is a garland of shiny green shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day. A blue evil eye keychain hangs from a black plastic strand of beads connected to the ceiling fan pull cord (out of view). In front of the right window is a large snake plant. To its right, a small white rug lays on the floor in the corner by the built-in bookcase with toys and a lamp on the lower shelves and seashell art decor on the top shelves (partially in view). On the wall right of the right window are two beachy framed photos, and on the wall to the left of the left window is a blue and purple print decoration. Right of the right window also hang bright blue shell chimes. A few toys are on the floor near the right corner. In the left corner is a small end table (out of sight) with lamp on top, and along the left wall next to it is the gray couch and above it the blue tapestry. Most of the floor is covered in a light-coloured high-pile rug.

Where do you spend most of your leisure time at home? That is, time spent neither working, cooking, eating, bathing, nor sleeping? When you have …

The children's bedroom (technically the kindergartener's room but where both boys now sleep at night) is furnished with a twin bed and blue tufted headboard on the right, covered in star-shaped throw pillows among other pillows and a blue blanket. On the left is a blue-painted dresser with an airplane plant, lamp, and other decor on top. On the floor in between the twin bed and dresser is a twin futon mattress tucked partially under the twin bed where the toddler sleeps, and is furnished with plush animals, several little pillows, and matching blanket. From the ceiling hangs a dreamcatcher in the center, a fishnet from the corner with nautical relics caught in it, and other nautical decor on the wall.

Updated on November 7, 2025March 14, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

How to Furnish Upstairs: Kids Bedroom, Primary Bedroom, and Office

Let’s go upstairs and check out some of the more personal spaces: bedrooms! In most American single-family homes, the upper floor is where you’ll find …

The back wall of the basement room is lined with only a vintage amplifier and a small brown end table in the corner with a brown lamp on top as well as small coastal and natural decor items. Several decorations hang from the wall including a hat with an emu feather, boomerang, and cloth koala hanging from Australia, a decorative heirloom scarf, and other decor

Updated on November 7, 2025March 5, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

From the Foyer to the Basement: Furnishing Most-and-Least-Frequently Used Spaces

Let’s discuss some of the most utilized and underutilized spaces of a house: the foyer (or entryway) and the (isolated) basement, as well as the …

A couple and two young children sit on a bare king bed mattress with moving boxes positioned around them. A little girl plays with toys scattered around while the little boy pulls items out of one of the boxes. Parents lounge on bed between the children looking happily relaxed. This is how to make a house feel like a home: allow the time and space in the process to keep spirits high and relaxed

Updated on March 27, 2025February 24, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

Moving House: A Guide to Crafting a Home out of a New Space

Humans need a house or some form of reliable shelter to physically survive. But humans also need a home, or a physical place – typically …

The main living space of a home with an ideal stuff/space ratio: two couches spaced apart in main area, several houseplants lining walls and corners with ample natural light, several throw pillows on couches, small end tables by walls with a few items, and plenty of decor throughout nearby kitchen and on walls

Updated on November 7, 2025February 21, 2025Creating a Home in a New House

Create Comfortable Spaces Using the Stuff/Space Ratio

Fostering the energy of a space is very important when creating a home or comfortable place where somebody wants to be. There are so many …

Children's wooden blocks with coloured numbers on them

Updated on November 7, 2025September 14, 2023Making the Home

Simplify Toy Storage and Cleanup with a Toy Display Shelf and Other Solutions

Kids need the learning, stimulation, and fun that toys provide. Play is important! Play is literally work for kids. And also, parents need a peaceful …

June 27, 2022May 22, 2022Inner Space

What to Do While You’re Waiting: How to Navigate Life’s Pauses

Nobody likes to feel bored while waiting. Life, however, is full of such pauses. These pauses are the requisite moments in between otherwise purposeful activities …

Updated on November 6, 2025June 13, 2022Making the Home

Overwhelmed by Clutter? Learn How to Effectively Clear Your Home

When you’re overwhelmed by clutter, the best thing to do is to make a plan. We as a culture have come to anticipate and expect …

Updated on November 6, 2025May 30, 2022Making the Home

Functional Decor Makes Your Home Both Efficient and Attractive

Decorating a space can be a lot of fun. It’s something you do any time you move someplace new, or when you want to revamp …

Updated on March 31, 2025May 16, 2022Inner Space

Feeling Unaccomplished? Learn How and Why to Stop Comparing Yourself

Feeling unaccomplished when looking at a colleague or old classmate and comparing their achievements to yours? Do you wonder: how did they get there while …

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