10 Ways To Style Your Home Without Renovation

How to style your home without renovation is really same type theory of “style (or re-style) with what you have already in your home” with a refresh twist.  Home style transformation doesn’t have to be dramatic, time consuming or expensive. A style re-shift makes you feel refreshed, re-organized and re-energized and has you look at your home in a new way.

Here are 10 ways to help you style your home.

STYLE BY FEELING

The feeling of your home. When you walk into your home, how does it make you feel?  Is it organized, happy, joyful, calm, serene?  Get (or use one you have) small accent table or console table.  Add beautiful lamp, mirror, and small tray to organize your keys, phone etc. and as I aways say, include “something live” ~ flowers, branches, even a fresh bunch of greens in a vase.  As you enter your home every day, it sets a feeling (& style) tone. 

STYLE BY COLOR

Does your home have a color palette?  If not, take note of what color you use most in your home.  Re-evaluate, do you love it?  If you do, create more of it with intention. Psychology of color is real. Start fresh with paint. (even if its the same color you have now.)  NOTHING says refresh and re-energized like a fresh coat of paint on walls, floors or furniture. Or why not wallpaper?

STYLE BY SEASON

Look at what is bringing not only style, but comfort in your home.  Style flow with the seasons, in spring and summer, it’s light, fresh, airy.  In Fall and winter it’s heaver, cozy, warm ~ flow with it. Surround yourself with fabrics that make you comfortable.  I always do a seasonal re-fresh textile swap.  If you are saying goodby to winter and spring is coming, switch out those heavy blankets, flannel sheeting, chunky knit throws and bring on the light gauze, linen, cotton ~ breathable fabric. Do a seasonal swap. It will give you a refresh and style. When you keep up with the season textiles ~ you can feel that your home is in style.

STYLE BY PERSONALITY

Create a Style Statement. We chatted about making style statement in How To Style Your Home With Whimsical Touches.  Take an area, a room, a nook, or even stairs or floor and create a style statement with your personalty.  It will connect you to your home.  Also, think about a task you “don’t love”.  It can be laundry.  If it is, create a more stylish and inviting space to do that. It will make a difference. You may not ever love doing laundry, but you can LOVE your new stylish space to do it in.  Mind over matter ~ also a thing.

Re-Style your Walls.  It could be new art (or it could be taking down your photos or art and creating a more breathable space for yourself)  It doesn’t always have to be about adding ~ it can be about subtracking and creating a minimalistic space you feel calm in. OR, if you have that breathable, neutral space now ~ maybe it would energize you to restyle your space with more color or art pieces. Style with objects, photos and art that make you happy and maybe are memory-filled.  Our memories are meant to be looked at, not packed and stored away.

STYLE BY OWN SPACE

Create nooks for yourself.  It can be for your morning beverage, your hobby, reading.  Face toward natural light window is a plus.  The sun always makes us feel happy.  While we may enjoy being with family, friends, having gatherings and celebrations in our home ~ sometimes we just need some calm and quiet for ourselves. That’s a good thing.  A space to be quiet and decompress is helpful.  Make a stylish space for your (and others) in your home.

STYLE WITH LIGHT

Best thing you can do is switch out lighting from the harsh, overhead lighting into more ambient light with lamps and dimmer lighting on your task lighting.  Instead of that overhead light for dinner, why not add candlelight or even some LED battery operated small lights. They come in beautiful designs now.  They add style and a sense of peace.

STYLE WITH REARRANGEMENT

I probably do these a little more obsessively than most, but it does give you a re-newed feeling and energy about your space.  More your furniture, rugs, tables and re-imagine your space into something new and fresh.  Reverse the whole direction of some of your rooms.

STYLE BY NATURE

Bring nature in.  Nature gives you a feeling of calm and seasonal style. It can be small florals in the bath, potted plants at your entryway, tall potted trees in your living room, a lemon tree in your kitchen.  Even large branches in large vase adds so much style to a home.

STYLE BY STORAGE

While I style interior for brands, I'm always asked style questions from individuals, like . . . "How do I style my space? I feel like I don't have any style"?  Most times when I look at their space ~ it has one thing in common.  There is no storage of anything. Everything is out in the open. So, it can look cluttered. (unstyled.)  And if that's the case, it's challenging to determine their "style" and to style their space.  This is an easy fix.  It just comes down to organization.

STYLE IN ACCENTS

You can add small style changes with big impact. Start with hardware and pulls on your cabinets, add texture panels to your closets, (It has look of custom and luxury)  reframe your mirrors to add style to them, add rugs to your space ~ they ground your space and give a feeling of cohesiveness and warmth, Add a new Headboard to your bed. Freshen look with pillows.

You don’t need a bigger home, another style of home, another neighborhood, another style aesthetic or RENOVATION.  You need to make your home a reflection of your loves, your memories, your preferences, your lifestyle AND you need to bring in life/nature, comfort, beauty, fragrance ~ that does not have to be extensive or expensive.

Bonnie ~

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