Home is meant to be your happy place — and your family’s happy place. As our seasons of life change, so must our home.
I believe home design can be beautiful AND family-friendly.
Over the last several years as my family has grown, I’ve learned to pivot my design choices by choosing family-friendly home decor and furniture without sacrificing style.
I believe the key to making a home work for your family is change. We are always changing our home – even if it’s simple swaps – to better suit our growing family’s ever-changing needs. I always aim to find better ways to achieve comfortability and maximize functionality in each season of life.
Beautiful home design doesn’t need to break the bank.
I am a firm believer that you can get the look you want in your home without spending a fortune. We’ve done so many DIYs in our home that I’ve lost count. There are also so many great dupes for high end products that will help you save money while also getting the look you want in your home.
We share lots of DIY tutorials here, as well as good finds that don’t cost a fortune.
That being said, I do love a good splurge on quality furniture pieces. I mix higher-end furniture pieces with budget finds all the time. Even having just a few splurge pieces can make your home look incredible!
I’m on a non-toxic home journey.
In January of 2023, I decided to make a drastic switch in our home. I’m on a mission to create a non-toxic home. I felt like a big change was needed because of all the sickness I experienced the year prior. In 2022, I was sick so much, more than I had ever been before in my life. I seemed to get sick every few weeks and my sicknesses were bad every single time. My immune system seemed weak and I couldn’t figure out why this kept happening. I still don’t know for sure why I kept getting sick but I knew I needed to do something drastic in 2023 to improve my health.
I did a lot of research and still continue to do daily research to improve our home by creating a less toxic environment. There is a lot to learn and know about toxins but I plan to share my learnings here on the blog in 2023.
My number one resource for non-toxic living is ewg.org, which is run by the Environmental Working Group. I use the EWG healthy living app to see which products the EWG certifies as safe and healthy.
I’m making simple, non-toxic swaps this year, including cleaning products and personal care products. It will definitely take awhile to make this transition as it’s expensive to swap everything out at once. I plan to make the swaps slowly so that by the end of the year, my home should be mostly toxic-free.
I’m also into clean eating.
Part of my journey in 2023 to a healthier lifestyle is clean eating. I am hoping that the combination of clean eating and toxic-free living will lead me to better health in the future.
What exactly does clean eating mean? To me, simply put, clean eating is eating foods that have clean ingredients.
Eating just organic foods does not encompass the entirety of clean eating for me. In fact, I don’t eat foods just because they’re organic. An organic food item, could, for example, have an unhealthy ingredient. My goal this year is to look at the ingredients in EVERY food item I eat. That means that I have a lot of research to do on ingredients. I have already learned a lot but I have a lot more work to do on this topic.
I love sharing foods and grocery halls in stories on Instagram so make sure to follow along there if this is something you’re interested in.
Meet Jason.
He’s my other half, my husband and my DIY partner. He is behind the scenes most of the time, but don’t let that fool you — he does a ton of work on our home. He is the one who knocks down walls, builds all the things, swaps the light fixtures, lays flooring, does plumbing work…the list goes on. He’s so handy and our home wouldn’t be near what it is today without his constant hard work. I’m so thankful for him everyday.
Things I love:
- being a mom & wife
- neutral colors in my home and closet (despite these photos of my plum-colored dress!)
- home design 😉
- blogging
- warm weather (fun fact: I used to love the winter months but as I get older, I really miss the warmth when it’s cold outside)
- home projects (sometimes painting can be a chore but sometimes it calms me)
- ocean views
- nature
Blog beginnings
I started this blog back in 2017 when my eldest was just a few months old. Before that, I was working in the corporate world as a marketer. I went back to work when my maternity leave was up, but I knew pretty much immediately that I wanted to stay home with my daughter. After lots of discussion and consideration, I left my job to stay home. I also started this blog. Back then, my blog was a different name but the content was mostly the same.
I always loved home decorating and DIYing so it made so much sense to blog about it. The blog was always my creative outlet and now, it’s my job too! A few years after starting my blog, I decided to rename my blog to my name because I knew I wanted to be able to have flexibility with content-type, and I felt the old name was restricting.
Here we are today. My interests and passions have evolved to include clean eating and non-toxic living. My core content will always be home decor and DIY, but I’m so excited to include more types of content for this next chapter of my life which revolves around healthier living. I can’t wait to share all that I’m learning about these topics on the blog.
Want to start your own blog?
I’ve been blogging since 2017 so I know a little bit about it. 😉 If you are thinking of starting your own blog, I have all the tools you need to get started. You can get up and running in just 15 minutes or so by following my tutorial.