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Often we try to define our design style with a name, but the truth is most of us have a mixture of design styles infused into our homes. While knowing what style you gravitate toward can be helpful, I have found that there are additional important questions that will help you create a space and home you love, feels authentic to you, is thoughtful and allows you to live in your home the way that best suits your and your family’s needs. One of those questions is the one we’re talking about in today’s post: How do you want your home to feel?

design_decorBrooke FiorilloJanuary 16, 2025

Holiday Home

Welcome to our holiday home! Wishing you a wonderful holiday season filled with cozy moments and time with loved ones!

design_decor, our homeBrooke FiorilloDecember 23, 2024

Complimentary Design Board: A Sleek and Neutral Entryway

I have a design board for you guys today, free to use! I’m thinking of doing these regularly. It will be a generic design board with my principles and style in mind: calm, natural materials, simplicity. You can use these as a jumping off point for your spaces.

design_decor, get the lookBrooke FiorilloDecember 12, 2024

How to Create a Calm and Cozy Holiday Home

I’m all about the calm and cozy (or hygge) year round, but especially during the holiday season. If you feel the same, I’m sharing some simple and doable ways to create that feeling in your own home below— and it doesn’t require purchasing a thing!

design_decor, our homeBrooke FiorilloNovember 22, 2024

3 Approachable Decluttering Methods to Implement Into Your Routine

Decluttering and organizing can feel SO daunting, especially if you feel like your home has gotten away from you and more things are coming in than going out. But it IS possible to get your calm home back, or create one if you never felt you had it. The solution is to take a bite size approach to decluttering. When we break it up into small decluttering sessions that can easily fit into your day, it becomes more approachable, manageable and has a greater chance of leading to success. Here are some methods you can implement right now:

organizationBrooke FiorilloNovember 15, 2024

Why and How I'm Doing a Home Reset Before the Holidays

This time of year always motivates me to “reset” the home. With the holidays just around the corner, decorations will be going up and more things will be coming into the home, so I like to start with a clean slate. It feels so much nicer decorating when everything is clear and in its place; it allows the decor to stand out instead of adding to the clutter.

organization, our homeBrooke FiorilloNovember 7, 2024

Family Room Updates

We have a few family room updates in the works that I’m excited to share with you guys! This was one of the very first rooms we worked on when we moved in and is our most used room. You can look back at this post to see the changes we made when we first moved in.

design_decor, our home, projectsBrooke FiorilloNovember 4, 2024

The Start of Our Native Pollinator Garden

Our local library does a summer reading challenge each year with a bunch of different missions, and this year one was to research the pollinator pathway in Connecticut. I was so intrigued by everything I learned and inspired to create our own in our backyard!

our homeBrooke FiorilloAugust 21, 2024

Boy's Room Hat Wall

A little update to our 8 year old’s bedroom wall! This wall used to hold crates hung on their sides to hold books. It began to feel a little young for him and we needed a storage solution for all his hats so updating this wall with custom peg rails seemed like a good solution!

design_decor, our home, projectsBrooke FiorilloAugust 6, 2024