How to find the motivation to improve your home
Does the idea of designing your home around your kids and pets overwhelm you? Do you fear buying that piece of furniture or rug thinking it will end up being ruined?
Just because you're a busy family with kids and pets doesn't mean you can't have a nice home where you are excited to gather with family and friends.
Do you and your partner repeatedly have the same conversations over coffee or late at night about the ever growing home project to-do list.
After all those conversations and talking about to-do lists, the biggest challenge?
Getting started! Are you just spinning your wheels but not moving forward?
Turns out, it's easier said than done. And even if you know what you've gotta do, you may still find yourself overwhelmed trying to figure out where to even start in bringing some calm to the chaos of your everyday home life....or what you should focus on first.
I've had some amazing clients over the years who seriously knew exactly what they wanted when it came to how they wanted their home to look, feel and serve them, but they were completely STUCK in overwhelm. They knew they should be tackling that ever growing to-do list, creating a home that brought joy and better served their family- but no matter how much they knew this, how much they talked about it, their home just wasn't reflecting who they were as a family.
Finding the motivation to create the home you truly want is easier and more important than you think! Follow these tips to find the motivation to improve your home, even when you have a family and a busy life. Your quality of life depends on it!
Research studies reveal that rooms with bright light, both natural and artificial, can improve depression and anxiety. Our home environment impacts our behavior and motivation to act. For example, a messy hall with shoes, bags, and other stuff may invite you to drop what you are carrying right there, whereas a clean entry and adequate storage will encourage you to take the time to put the item away. The state of our homes will either facilitate or discourage interactions in your family with guests. For example, an inviting space with comfortable chairs can encourage people to sit and chat. Our homes should reduce stress, not be the cause of it!
My husband and I get asked CONSTANTLY about how we find the time to do so much to our home. At first, we kind of laughed and explained we just really love doing it, but the more I heard the question the more I thought about it. I finally took a hard look at the nuts and bolts of how we actually find the time and get ourselves motivated to work on making our house our dream home. And while it is not hard, it does not just happen naturally! We do certain things that enable us to spend time making our home exactly what we want. And you can improve your home too!
Finding the motivation to improve your home
I firmly believe that every single home out there can and should be beautiful. You just need to get motivated to improve your home.
My husband and I find the time to renovate and decorate our home, which often shocks people, because they know we both work full-time, have our own businesses, homeschool two kids and own a horse and mini donkey along with a plethora of other pets . And we don't do it simply because I am an interior designer! Even back when I worked a full time corporate job and my husband was attending college, we did tons to our home. And keep in mind we don’t have any family in town to help us out with daily life. In other words, we are super busy, just like you.
What makes us different is our mindset. We have not only found the time to work on our home, but we have found the motivation to do it as well. And you need BOTH to be really successful.
Last week, I surveyed my readers and found out that so many of you are struggling with …
Feeling too short on time and money to design a room perfectly.
Trying and failing to decorate your home in the past.
Thinking working with an interior designer to create that beautiful home is for the wealthy and meant you had to start with a clean slate buying all new, so you just avoid making changes.
Justifying to yourself that decorating your home isn't “that important”, even though you’d love nothing more.
I also asked this question in that survey… “If there is something, no matter how big or little, you could fix in your home today that would make your day-to-day brighter, easier, what would that be?” Many of the answers really shocked me.
“If it were my choice I would not live here. I hate my home.”
My home decor doesn’t fit me at all. I feel like someone else decorated it, even though I did!”
“Not enough time to make it a priority.”
“My greatest challenge when it comes to my home is my own indecision. So I just don’t do anything.”
“I get so overwhelmed, I don't even know where to begin.”
“I suffer from the fear of buying big ticket items that I'll end up hating.”
No one should settle for rooms they don’t love because they are on a tight budget.
And oh my goodness, no one should hate their home or feel embarrassed by it. No one should believe they can’t have a well-designed home because they think they can’t afford an interior designer. Working with MSID is easier than you think and our Designer-by-your-side package was created with you in mind.
Does working with a designer intimidate you? With my designer-for-a day package, you can access my designer style through these smaller projects and it will help you gain experience in bite-size pieces of what it is like working with a designer.
Designer-for-day allows you the opportunity to work with me at a lower price point.
In the midst of our crazy busy lives I believe to the very core of my being that our homes should be our happy place. Our home should be the one place we would rather be than anywhere else. Why? Because it is where we start and end our crazy busy days.
When we wake up and go to sleep feeling frustrated with our cluttered and outdated home, those feelings follow us around and impact every other aspect of our lives. But when we open our eyes in the morning and love what we see when we look around our homes and have a smooth morning because our homes function well for our families, that happiness and contentment will follow us around, improving our entire day on a subconscious level we aren’t even aware of.
When we are excited to go home at the end of a stressful day of work because we feel happy and welcome the moment we open the door, we are able to rest and recharge before the next day begins. It’s also true that people that truly love their homes are far more likely to keep it clutter-free, clean and organized. After all, if you don’t love what you see when you look around, having papers laying around or a sink full of dirty dishes isn’t going to really make a difference. But when you look around and see spaces that reflect your style and that spark joy, you will want it to tidy.
The bottom line is that having a home that you love will actually REDUCE your stress and INCREASE your overall happiness.
In fact, I'm going to go one step further and make a bold statement…
If you don't love your home, you aren't living your best life. Period.
We have extensively renovated each of our 4 homes and currently working on our fifth. We learned early on that when we create spaces that we absolutely adore (which doesn’t always require huge budgets, by the way) we feel happy in our home and that makes us happier overall.
I know how exhausting life is. I know how hard it can be to work at a job that drains you and how little time you have between work and raising a family. But your MOTIVATION to improve your home should be the positive impact it will have on every part of your life. It will have a domino effect. So it pays off big time to make it a priority in your life.
You are probably thinking, “great, Marsha. I agree. I believe that if I improve my home it will have countless positive benefits in my life. But I'm soooo busy. How do I do it?” I get it. And I have the answer.
You have to shift your mindset.
You must recognize and accept that creating a home you love requires sacrifices. When you are able to walk through the door of your home and love everything you see, the sacrifices you will have made will seem so small. I promise!
The good news is that you don't have to have a huge budget or an expensive house in a great neighborhood to love it. I've known plenty of people that have lived in modest homes and have really, truly LOVED their homes. This is not about budget or making your home look like a magazine. It's about creating spaces that you love and that make you feel like your home is hugging you every time you walk in.
That's why I've created BRINGING CALM TO CHAOS HOME DESIGN PACKAGE.
Starting September 7th, we're gonna CREATE. We're gonna prioritize, plan and get down to creating the calm in your home. We're gonna say NO to procrastination that keeps us stuck in the chaos and start intentionally designing the home life of your dreams!
I’ve been creating calm for busy families just like you for the past 15 years! Actually, the very same year I became a mom so I’ve been down in the trenches right there with you. As a mom who has always worked from home, always homeschooled both kids along with a partner who is also running his own business, I know just how crazy life is.
Together, we are going to create a home the whole family can enjoy. A home that looks beautiful, that takes into account the demands of everyday family life, that incorporates a decorating style that will stand up to the rigours of every day family life.
While we iron out the final details, I encourage you to SUBSCRIBE to my email list to be the first to know when you can officially sign up. Registration will be limited to this package where I will work side by side with you to help you BRING CALM TO THE CHAOS BY DESIGN.
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I look forward to helping you bring calm to the chaos. Fall 2021 is going to be HUGE!
xo,
