This is How to Make YOUR HOME feel More Magical

I couldn’t tear myself away from this home. I’ve had it saved in my favorites and found myself going back to it over and over. This made me ask myself… why? Why is there a pull to this home? It’s not perfect. It’s not “designed” the way a traditional interior designer would EVER make a home and yet there is something that made me linger.

Linger. Now that is a word that traditional designers tend to think about after all the mathematical equations have all been figured out, the room and all the stuff has been measured, but I always start with the lingering… or what I call “the magic.”

To me, a space is infinitely more appealing if it has the ability to make me want to sit down and quite frankly that is what helps me sell houses and even what I see buyers jumping at again and again. I have found that people will overlook the imperfections in a space if it has some sort of magic to it.

After studying photography and interior styling for years there were always these key elements that I discovered could be found in the truly magical homes. Here are my favorites, displayed so perfectly in this home:

Choose the things that truly make your heart leap when you see them.

Use Fire to Literally Warm up a Room. Candles Work too!

Think of the flow and how the rooms segue between each other

Notice how Your Eye Moves in a Triangle around the room, create it if it isn’t there

Let Plants bath in the sun or idly watch the rain on the window

There is power in the written word. Don’t be a slave to putting them on a shelf!

Focus the room around the natural light source so your eye gravitates towards it

Create Cohesiveness by seeing the space as a whole once you’ve created a vignette

Always mix your textures and eras. A white wall helps bring it all together .

Remember the real magic will always be found in the REAL life

Think of the story you are living and make sure the backdrop feels just as magical!

Find beauty in the every day, the little collected things that have a story

Remember your garden. Enjoy it and all the magic it holds inside.

It’s the imperfections that make you want to linger.

Nix the perfection. That just makes you want to sit up straighter!

Find beauty in the Common, Habitual Acts you do within your home

Don’t let utility keep you from embracing the magic.

Remember that age and patina bring a sense of longevity to your story and give you that extra something!