How to Design a Joyful and Inspiring Home

1. Introduction: [MUSIC] Home is so much more than a place to live. How it feels is just as important as how it looks. Our homes have the potential to inspire, energize, and support our whole life. I'm Lin Tiggins. I'm an interior designer and I'm going to take you step-by-step through the approach I use to design a scheme. I completed my first big interior design project back in 2015, and every single project I've done ever since always has the same amazing magnetic transformation that happens. I have designed hair salons, hotels, holiday cottages, and people's homes, and it is always the transformation that is so uplifting at the end of a project. I'm going to share with you some of the projects that I've completed so that you can get a feel for the designing I love to do. I hope that you'll find something that you think could bring joy and inspiration into your home. Come with me on your design journey and discover how to create magic in your home. I'm going to give you the tools and techniques to use so that you can design your own space and create a really joyful, inspiring home to live in. We'll get to the real heart of how you want to live so that you can incorporate into your design. Because that's really important. [MUSIC] The starting point for me is always about exploring and discovering how you you want to live and use the space and then gathering inspiration. I think both of those things together are what create a really cohesive design scheme and a design scheme that reflects you and your life. I'm going to show you how to make a visual mood board so that you get a real sense of how the room will look, and also we will look at choosing paint colors, mixing color, pattern, and texture to create a really beautiful, interesting, rich layered looking room. [MUSIC] By the end of this class, you will have a design concept that really creates joy in your home. [MUSIC] 2. Class Project: [MUSIC] You don't need any previous interior design experience to do this class or complete with class project. The class project is in two stages. The first stage is about exploring your connection to your home, and why that matters in interior design. Then about really finding your key sources of inspiration that you want to see incorporated into the design. There is a downloadable workbook in the resource section of the class that you can use to really dive into thinking about what's important to you in terms of your design. In Lesson 3, we go through some of the prompts and things that you might consider when you're doing that part of the project. The second stage of the project is creating digital and a real life mood board. For the digital mood board, I use a simple word package. It's so easy to use. I use it all the time and I'm going to show you one or two very simple techniques. You can use any software that you're happy with, but I just choose word because most people have it and it's really easy to use. Then we'll look at a real life mood board. In Lesson 6, I will give you some examples of how I approach that and you can use anything for that. Anything that you've got around the home, anything that really captures your interest and inspires you or you can just simply use the pages of a magazine. Then share in the class project gallery your creations and I can't wait to see them. [MUSIC] 3. Your Vision: [MUSIC] How you want to live in your home is the bedrock to any design. What makes one person happy is not the same for everybody, laying the foundation by exploring and discovering how you want to live and use the space, and then gathering your influences is what will create a really cohesive scheme that is unique to you and your wife. You need to start at the beginning and work out exactly what it is that fills you with joy and connects you to your home. [MUSIC] Quite often, people will start in the middle with decorating or buying furniture and then find that they're disappointed when it's finished, so I often get asked to pull something together when people have decorated and bought new furniture, and I can't do that but it's easier if you start with a design concept because they've really narrowed down the choices and there are very few directions that you can go in. Think of it as a journey, this is always the starting point for me, and when we finish a scheme, you can always tell that we did this. If you approach the design of your home from this angle, you will get a space that energizes, inspires, and feels uniquely yours, your very own sanctuary that is the perfect foundation for your life, so use the project workbook in the resources section to uncover the vision for your new design scheme. The questions will prompt you to really draw out exactly what it is that you want to represent in your home, and then you'll use that later on when you're developing your design. What I would say is dream really big when you're doing this exercise, and then when you discover your story or what's important to you about your home or your connection, share that in the class project gallery. I'm really looking forward to what you discover, because this is always a revelation to people. [MUSIC] I want you to start with an exercise before you start writing in the workbook. It's to help you to really get into the flow of writing and answering the questions. Close down your eyes, take a couple of long slow breaths and allow yourself to imagine that you are already in that room, it's all around you. You can see it, feel it, you can smell it as an energy in the room that you feel all around you. Let yourself wander around the space and touch the different elements. Furniture, the wood, cushions, ceramics, soft curly fabrics, a fold up sofa, textured corduroy, woven racks. Is it for a bright, joyful colors? Are they calm and muted and textured? Just really capture the essence of a space. Now I want you to think about a place you've been, a room, a house, or a hotel you stayed in, but a place and it just didn't want to leave or a place you keep going back to. What do you love about that place, what drew you to it, when you're there how do you feel? Take in a couple of deep breaths and open your eyes, and these are all of the things I want you to capture in the workbook, so download the book, grab a pen, and start scribbling. I'll see you in the next lesson. [MUSIC] 4. Room Appraisal: [MUSIC] You've created your vision, so now it's time to have a look of what you've already got in the room, and decide which elements are going to go into your new scheme. What I do is have a look at everything and really make the things that are going to go into your new scheme earn that place. What I do is I ask a series of questions. Do you absolutely love it? Do you really need it? Has it got a practical use that you can't manage without? Or is it plain fabulous? In which case, it has to stay. What are the non-negotiables? Is it a favorite old chair, a table, or a desk? They have to go into your new scheme. What I would say is don't just redecorate and put everything back. Use this as a real chance to completely transform the look of your room and how you live in it. [MUSIC] We often take our homes for granted and don't think about the way they impact every area of our life. Our homes are an integral part of who we are. They are where we recharge, re-energize, retreat. We've all stayed in places we absolutely love, either on holiday or with a friend. Places that completely left uninspired. You can create that same feeling in your own home, in every area of your home. Empty every drawer and every cupboard in the room that you're designing and clear out what you no longer want or need. Things that have been hanging around for ages, get rid of them. It really helps you to decide what storage you need in your new scheme. [MUSIC] But more than that, what I think is that by getting rid of those things that you don't need, you create space for the new and space for the uplifting, joyful energy that you want to bring into your home. [MUSIC] 5. Gathering Inspiration: [MUSIC] Inspiration for interior design can come from literally anywhere. Approaching your design from an inspiring place will really help you to create transformation. I often go in search of inspiration. I go to shops that I love. I go to galleries, art exhibitions. I go to trade shows, venues, I get inspiration from other designers from online platforms. House, Pinterest, from magazines. So many different places. I know the places I love to go to get my inspiration. I Shop Liberty London. I only have to see the shop outside and I am already totally switched on. On my travels, I look, touch when I'm allowed, smell things and photograph. I often don't have a purpose. I will just go and absorb. What happens, I think, is all of that inspiration fills up my inspiration tank. Then when I'm doing a project, elements of it appear on the page. I love that about the creative process. Sometimes something I've seen will just become a mini design concept of its own. Then I'm just waiting for the right projects to arise so that I can put it in there. Go and gather and absorbed. I think all of the elements that you bring together will feed into your design concept and make for a fantastic new scheme. [MUSIC] 6. Creating a Mood Board: Mood boards are an incredibly useful tool in an interior designers tool kit. They spark the imagination, they allow for experimentation and they give you a real visual sense of how a scheme is going to look. I use digital mood boards all the time. I absolutely love creating them. I use them to design concepts, to compare elements in a scheme to make decisions and choices. I put paint colors in them to see how the colors are working with all of the other elements in the room. I think that for me, it's one of the most important parts of what I do and I really, really enjoy it. I'm going to show you how to create really simple digital mood boards using Word. If you master a few really simple techniques, you can make a mood board super quick and use it for absolutely anything. It's a great way to see how everything is fitting together and give you a real feel for the new design that you're creating. [MUSIC] I'm going to open up a Word document, create a new document. I love to use word because it's very easy, simple, and quick. I always change the layout to landscape and make the margins narrow so that I can put the different elements on the board close to the edges and it looks much better in landscape. Once I've got my document setup, I then look for my first source of inspiration. The thing that's going to guide and direct the scheme. This is a bedroom scheme so I'm going to look for an image that represents the soft look that I'm aiming for. I will do a quick search in Google, find the key image really that will influence the whole scheme. It doesn't have to be an image, it could be a piece of art or fabric or anything at all, but it's your starting point. I'm going to use this picture in the bottom corner. Once I've got the picture, I will go to my screenshot tool at the bottom here, click on that. Then I get this highlighted box, which I will drag to the outline of my image. It's the highlighted, I can just get the corners, each corner and drag it to the edge of my picture. I want the little black lines ink because I think you will frame really nicely on the mood board. Once I've positioned the highlighted box correctly, I then go back to my screenshot tool, capture the image which goes onto the desktop. Then I move it into my Word document. Once it's in the Word document, I need to format it so that I can move it around. You click on the picture to highlight the picture and then go to Picture Format at top along to Wrap Text and in the drop-down menu pick Square and that will mean I can resize the picture and I can also move it around on the board. I'm going to place that in the middle of the board and it's a really good starting point of picture for this mood board. I've already put some pictures on the desktop for this project so that it's much quicker. I'm going to save the project also to the desktop so that I can keep refreshing during the demonstration and to make sure I don't lose obviously any of the work. I'll save it to the desktop whilst it's saving. Some of you might have an old version of Mac and you might have the clipper tool instead of screenshot tool, but it works in a very similar way. You just have to the click on the tool, go to the menu bar at the top along to capture drop-down selection and it will give you the opportunity to draw around your picture. I'm now going to put another image onto the board and I'm going to use one of the images that I have already collected on the desktop. I'm going to put a chest of drawers on the board. I'll drag that in from the desktop and you'll notice that my image in the middle has become highlighted and that happens sometimes. If you click on it, it doesn't always go away but there is a way that I use to get rid of it, so I'll go through that in a minute. But first of all, I have to format the picture I've tracked on to the document. Picture Format again, along to Wrap Text, Square, and that will allow me to resize the picture, just dragging in the corner and also move it around the board. With this picture, I don't want all of that wall around it for the mood board. I just want the furniture and the mirror and the light. I am going to use the screenshot tool to cut away some of the edge. Bring up the screenshot again, put my highlighted box where I want my image to be. I'm going to bring it in as close as I can on all sides to get us a little background as possible. Some a little bit of background won't really affect the overall look, capture. The image goes into the corner, I can drag it on, click on the other image and it will disappear. Now, I need to format the new image I just brought in. Wrap Text, Square, and move it to the other side. I am going to have to get rid of that blue. The way I do it is save the document, close it down and when you reopen, the blue will go. There might be an easier way to do it, but I don't know and that's the one I do now. Just close it down, reopen and there it's gone. Now, I can move the items that are on my board, around the board. The positioning is really up to you wherever you think it looks the best. Sometimes I like to put them where I think they might be in relation to each other in the room. The next thing I'm going to look for is a hanging rail and I know where I'm going to source it from. I want a mixture of wood and metal because I think that the room would look nice with a little bit of a different material, like metal. I don't want it just to be wood, I've got a wooden drawers and I want to mix it up a little bit. I'm not going for an industrial metal though, I'm going for a nice, sleek wood and metal combination, and that one works perfectly. I'll go down again to my screen capture tool. Click on that for the highlighted box over the item. Bring it in close to the edges as close as possible all around. Capture the image that will go into the corner of the desktop. Then I can drag it onto my board and I can format it. Click on the image, Picture Format, Wrap Text, Square and then I can resize and move around the board. Also, I'm going to flip it around so it faces into the room rather than away from the room and you can just try different. For that I went again, Picture Format, rotate or flip vertical and horizontal. I'm now going to bring in a couple of ceramic plates. I love ceramic plates on walls or ceramics of any kind. I think they add a completely different dimension to a scheme. These are already on quite a green smoky background so the background won't interfere too much with the mood board. But I want to cut the rest of the photograph off and I'll be using the same technique. I formatted the picture so I can move it around, both of them. I'm going to go into my screenshot tool, put the highlighted area over the image I want to capture and capture that, that goes into the corner. I'll just drag that onto the mood board and I'll do the same for the other plate. Then once I've got that, I can click on the picture and delete it. We're going to have to get rid of the shading again in a minute. I'll do the same with this one, go into the screenshot tool. I'm just checking the highlighting, saving it and open it again, takes the highlighting away. Into the screenshot tool, there's my highlighted box. As I say, with an older version of Mac, you don't get this sign box, you get the scissors at the bottom. You go to the top left menu bar, you go along the menu to capture, scroll down to selection, and then you draw around your image. There we've got the two plates now both resized and both formatted so that they are Wrap Text and Square and we can put them anywhere. It doesn't matter where they are at the minute. Just close it down and open it again. Hopefully I won't have to do this many more times. The next thing I want is a pendant lamp shade. I'm going to go for quite an ethnic lamp shade in wicker. I'm introducing another texture, but it goes well with the fabrics that are in the room. When I'm looking for a pendant, I always like it to be a really good size. Quite often you see pendants are a bit too small is better to be too big than too small. I'm going to go for the largest in the shape that I want. It will look much better in any room, even in a really small room. I go to my screenshot to position the box with a pendant. I like to keep reflecting when I'm doing it for a mood board so that you can really see what it is and it gives you a better idea of how it will be in the room. That is going onto my board. I captured that, put it on the board. Again, picture format, wrap text, square, and then I can move it around. The next thing I want in the room is a rock. I am going to look at anthropology because I know they do some really beautiful textured colored rocks that will really work well in this scheme. I'm just going to scroll down and have a look what there is. I wanted tufted nice soft rock for the bedroom and maybe more than one to choose from. I might put a couple of options then and just see which one I like the best. I'm going to try. I think the one on the right, the colors look like they'd worked really well. I am going to my screen capture, use my highlighted box. Capture the image, and pop it on the board. It picks up the colors of the ceramic plates beautifully in that rock. But I'm going to have another look. I'm going to go for that really lovely colored striped there. I think the colors and the style will work really well on a lipid tassels on the end. I'm going to do screen capture, I'm going to make sure I get the tassels in, but not the white inches. I'm going to bring the sides and detect the edges out. I like the blue running through that and I think it's really beautiful. I'm going to put that on the board. I like that. Obviously, I'm going to format them so I can move them around, but I actually quite like that they form to complete backdrop for the mood board is very interesting. What I also like to do with rocks, I'm going to flip them horizontal so they look a little bit more like they would if they were on the floor. That is the rotate picture format and rotate. First of all, I'm going to bring the other elements forward on top of the rocks. There is a tool that says send backwards, bring forwards, but it doesn't always work. What I do, after I've got them in the right position so I am rotating them 90 degrees to get them to lie in that way, then I'm going to bring the furniture on top. To do that, I just click on the image, command C to copy, command V to paste. Then the one I've just pasted in will be on top of the other images. The rooks can stay behind and I'll bring forward also the main central image of the bed. Same way. Command C to copy, command V to paste, move it to one side, delete the one that's underneath and the same with the chester drawers. Command C to copy, move it to one side, Command V, and made it back. When you do the copying, you don't have to reformat the pictures. They'll stay square so you can still move them around. Now I've got my furniture and bad and all the different elements. I like both the rocks they both work. But I prefer the one with the blue in because I think it works really beautifully with the colors on the bed, and with the ceramics. It was just to show you really how doing a mood board can really help you to make decisions. But I really liked that. That's the one I'm going for on this board. Then the last thing I'm going to put in the board, just move everything around so it's in a little bit more of a position. Actually I'm going to put some paint colors on. Mood board is a great way to test paint colors. I know which paint color I want to try for this board. It's a farrow and ball. It's a lovely smoky green. It's not countering green. It's green smoke. I think. It's not one of the yellower greens. It's a very cool green. I think it'll work really lovely in this game. What I'm going to do, yes, it's green smoke. I am going to give myself some options of some lighter colors as well. I might use them on the woodwork or I might use them on the ceiling, but I just want them in the scheme. I'm going to go with their light option here. I'm going to copy the little groups that have paint colors because I think that they will look very nice. I'm going to keep the names end of the bottom two. I will obviously make a record of the green smoke when I list everything that I'm going to source for this project. I capture the paint image, pop it onto the board, format, and change the size. You'll see that the green is not identical to what's going on on the bed or the lump, or the rock. But it doesn't need to be, it just needs to work well. This is a great way to test it. I'm now going to add in an additional fabric that I might use for covering a chair or cushions or a throw. I'm going to look at black pop velvets, to some amazing real mixed fabrics, very mixed up colors. That's why I want to mix up the pattern and the color. I'm going to go for this particular one because I think the actual pattern and style really reflect to what's going on in the room. I'm going to take an image of that, see how it all works with my highlighter. I'm not going to take the whole some. I don't want it to look like another rock. I'm just going to take the square part of it because I've got the pattern repeat in there. I think it's a really unusual fabric that would really add something to this game. It's got that beautiful coral that really works well with the rock. It's just about really looking closely at all the different elements and then trying things out. This is definitely one of my favorite ways to do that. I'm going to re-size the plates because they are not matching and it's a bit annoying. Now it's about just positioning everything the way you want it to be. Where you think it looks good, where it might be in relation to everything else in the room and how you can get a really good impression. I think that's a really lovely mood board. I'm going to save it to the desktop. Replace the one that's there and there you have it. [MUSIC]. 7. Choosing Paint Colours: Invariably, when I'm designing a scheme, I don't start with the color of the walls. It might actually be the last thing that I choose. I start with the things that I want in the room, on my mood board. Quite often, the color palette for the room will emerge from that. There might be one key piece that is influenced in the whole scheme. It could be a piece of art, or a rogue, or a vase. It's almost a jumping off point for the scheme. If I have that in a design, I will go with it and follow it. The color of the walls and ceiling are actually the backdrop. Of course you do notice colors, especially if that bold, or a more saturated color, but what you really want to notice is the things that are in the room, those elements that are on top of the walls. It's a bit like if you imagine a stage set and actors, you want the set to look great, but you really want to notice the actors. The thing to think about is how you want to feel in the room. Is it calm and relaxed? Is it really super cozy? Or is it bright and vibrant? Lighter rooms with lots of windows can feel really airy, and you might want to enhance that with your paint color. Whereas in rooms with less light, perhaps use a bolder color. My belief is actually that the light or dark paint on the color of the walls does not make a room lighter or darker. It's the windows and the position of them, and the light coming into the room that does that. What the paint color does do is really influence the energy in the room. [MUSIC] I think that's one of the really important things to focus on. What energy are you looking for, and how do you want to feel in the room? Choose your backdrop, the color of your walls and ceiling ceiling your paint card. Either the whites neutrals, or the mid tones, or the darker saturated colors. Then put them on your mood board and check how they are working with the rest of the scheme. Again, experiment using colors from different areas at the paint card. Imagine giving yourself the freedom to choose from all those amazing paint colors, and not just limiting yourself to the same neutrals that you often or always use. You need to make the paint colors work with the elements that you've chosen for your scheme. The best way to check this is on your mood board. Put the paint colors on the mood board, and move them in and out to try different options. You'll very quickly get a feel for which ones that you like, and which ones look like they're working very well. Paint manufacturer websites give fantastic guidance and inspiration on their paint colors. Whether they have a warm undertone or a cool undertone. It's the undertone that really impacts whether colors work well together or not. Have a look at that and be guided by it. But it is a guide, and not a Bible. My advice is always test before you invest in a paint color. Get some real paint samples, and actually have a few colors, a few options that you're considering, maybe even just tones of the same color. Also, take a look around, what colors are you drawn to? What colors can you not take your eye off? I think, include some of that in your scheme, or base your scheme around it. [MUSIC] 8. Mixing Colour Pattern and Texture: [MUSIC] For me, color and pattern are like a magnet. They draw me in and lift my spirits instantly. If I was to encourage you to take one thing away from this class, it would be to consider making bolder choices with color and pattern mixing. It's something that people shy away from. But actually, it's because they have not had the chance to practice really and to increase their confidence. That is all it takes. There are no rules with color mixing and pattern. If it doesn't look right to your eye, then change it. What is a really good thing to do is look at other designers on Instagram or Pinterest, in magazines and get some inspiration. Really look at the detail of what they're doing. Then practice that in your own schemes and you will just build your confidence so quickly. It really is just about experimenting. Rooms have energy and color and pattern really influence the energy of a room. I love my rooms to be joyful and uplifting, and color and pattern does that for me. [NOISE] I want to encourage you in this lesson to step outside your comfort zone, experiment with using pattern and color and just have it go, build up your practice. Have some fun with it, and don't be afraid of making wrong choices. I want to show you in this lesson how to step outside your comfort zone with mixing color and pattern. Experiment with it and have fun and there are no wrong or right ways to do it. In this example of a mood board, I want to show you how you can use and bring together lots of different patterns and fabrics. But they are all based on the central colors in the card. That includes the wallpaper, the velvet, the linens, the trim. All of it works together because it's picking up the same color threads. The glass works beautifully because it's a different texture. It also can represent lighting in a room or ceramics or any accessories. It's good to pop one or two things on your mood board. One or two real objects to give you that impression of the 3D vision of your room really. The metal spoon is really just the right material for this scheme. This scheme is a much more simple colorway really, but again, it's based around central colors of the card. Note all of the fabrics in the scheme are the same colors as what's in the card. Again, we're mixing up the patterns. The idea is not to match. The idea is to just take influences. One of the important things here to point out is that the fabrics have all got slightly jagged edges on the pattern and so of the tiles and that picks up the artwork, the print you can see the way it's created. It has that similar element and what makes it work together. It's not always the most obvious thing. This board has been created on a blue background because I think it works really beautifully with all of the colors that are going on to the board. Again, it's quite simple, but you've got the orange and pink picking up the warmth of the wood and the pink of the cushion. Then we're keeping to the blue, which is very dominant in that wallpaper on the chimney breast wall. But the butterfly really plays into that lovely natural floral element. Again, the glass just brings a completely different dimension, as does the lovely bright, brass spoon. [MUSIC] 9. Next Steps: [MUSIC] My mission is to help you transform your home into a place that nurtures and supports your life. For me, my home is a sanctuary. It has supported me through good times and bad. It is my place of joy. Now you've created a design concept. You can implement it at any time, your list of what you want to include from your current room and your design board, you should be able to see quite easily what extra things you might need and also how much decorating there is to do. Think about what you're achieving with the whole budget rather than focusing on the cost of each single item. If you focus on the cost of each item and rule out all the special elements in the scheme, you will really notice that it will really reflect in your overall outcome at the end. Obviously, that's if your budget allows you to do that. Another thing to think about is quantity. If for example you're using tiling or fabric and you don't need very much, then it might be worth really stepping up to a different level in terms of design and style because it won't actually make that much difference to the bottom line cost, but it could have a huge positive impact on the overall look of your scheme. Another thing to think about is using your mood board to create an entire design concept. By that, I mean, try not to make individual buying choices, one at a time separately because what you're actually doing is narrowing down your overall design direction and options, because each subsequent purchase you make has got to then react to the one before. For example, if you have a bed and you buy some lights, and you think, yes, those lights look good with the bed, and you buy them and you haven't got a concept for your overall scheme, so you haven't chosen the styling for the rest of the room, you don't know if those lights are then going to go with whatever decor scheme you want to put into the room. Would they go, for example, with wood paneling, or patterned wallpaper, or concrete walls? By creating a mood board and testing everything on the mood board, it enables you to create a cohesive look with your design scheme so that you know that all of the elements work together. [MUSIC] Don't forget to ask yourself if you've pushed your boundaries, stepped outside of your comfort zone, been a bit daring, done something different than what you normally do. When you look at your design and your mood board, does it make you go, wow? Does it make your heart sink, lift your spirits, fill you with joy, because that's what you're aiming for. You don't want to just create the same thing that you always create. Sometimes, we stop short of the one thing that would take our design to offer scale amazing. Remember, we don't always know why we choose some things, sometimes we're just drawn to it, so trust that, trust your instinct. It's your home. You can create it in whatever way you want to. For me, the best homes are the ones that reflect the lives and personalities of the people that live in them. Another really important point to remember I always think is, let things settle. We're not always comfortable with change. It can take time to get used to things. But don't make an immediate judgment. Give yourself time to adapt to whatever it is that you've created because the chances are if you've been through this process that we have gone through in these lessons, you will arrive at the joyful and inspiring home. It just might be a little bit of a surprise. Give yourself time to let things settle and if a place, an area of the room, or your scheme is looking a little bit bad, it might just want some extra styling, layering takes time. The other thing to remember is that new furniture needs friends to help it settle in. By that, I mean things around the piece of furniture. If it's just put somewhere, can look a bit lost and lonely. This is really the starting point for your new design scheme. If you follow this and then carry out your plan, you will certainly create a sense of feeling of joy in your home. [MUSIC] 10. Final Thoughts: I hope you've enjoyed this class on creating joyful and inspiring home. I hope that when you create your space, you get a deep sense of satisfaction from the process that you've been through. For me, home is a really special place that is deep and meaningful and allows us the chance to really be ourselves. Laying the foundations by exploring how you want to live and use the space and then gathering your influences, really helps you to create that amazing space that is uniquely you. Following your instinct and building your confidence with color and pattern will open up so much desired potential for you and for your home. For me, this approach helps you to make bolder and more considered decisions instead of doing the same thing that you always do and that you've always know. It's about expanding your horizons, embracing the new and unfamiliar to create a really amazing space that you absolutely love to live in. That energy, that confidence, that expansion reflected in your home can have the most amazing impact on the rest of your life. I can't wait to see what you discover and create. Share your design journey with us in the class project gallery and let's create some interiors magic together.