How to Make Your Basic Home Feel Special

If your home lacks architectural details, then this is for you! What you can add to your home to make it special.

I’m sure the majority of us do not have homes like the one above. I wish, it’s absolutely stunning!

I think the majority of us have homes with basic walls, windows and floors with no outstanding architectural details.

Basic apartment with grey flooring and grey walls, popcorn ceiling and small white kitchen.
Basic  room with grey walls and grey carpet.

And then if you bought neutral furniture, what you can be left with is something very basic and boring. And you’re left wondering why your home feels the way it does.

Basic living room with grey walls, grey floors, grey sofa, grey curtains.

But there are ways you can add interest to your home without having to move or change your furniture.

What You Can Do

Here’s what you can do:

  1. Add patterned rugs.
Patterned rug in living room.
via Pottery Barn

2. Add wallpaper to walls.

3. Add wall moulding and interest light fixtures.

Dining room with laser pointing to wall to install wall moulding and large French chandelier.

The Only-You Layer

4. And the biggest impact on your home that you can add is what I call, the Only-You Layer. 

That’s the thing you found, inherited, made or collected that nobody else would have chosen in quite the same way.

That little bit of unexpected personality is often what makes a regular home feel like your home.

So that it doesn’t feel like it could have been bought online in one afternoon.

It doesn’t mean adding a whole bunch of junk to make the room feel cluttered, it’s thoughtful individual pieces that you love for whatever reason that make your home you. And that’s the one thing that no one adds but you, not even an interior designer. 

It creates the story behind your home. 

So add the weird object to a wall just because.

It doesn’t matter what it is, it just has to mean something to you and makes your home feel like you, and some place you can feel good that you invested in. 

What kind of items will you add to your home?

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