Decorating style! Everyone has one, but, I bet if someone asked you to define it, you’d have a hard time explaining exactly what it is, you just know what you like. Home decorating is an extension of your personal style. It’s all about who you are and what makes you feel comfortable, intuitively. If you want to get in touch with your personal style, follow these three steps:

1. Review What you Have
   It’s time to take a good hard look around your house and make an honest list about what you love and don’t like about the current furnishings and décor. Create a list of “Keep” or “Replace” and walk around your house (or just the room you want to change) with a pad and pencil and put every piece of furniture and tchotchke into one of those two columns. Go with your gut on how each item makes you feel and you won’t go wrong.
2. Find Your Favorite Things
   Look around not only your home furnishings, but, your clothes and even your jewelry and put all your favorite things into a big pile (or take digital photos of them, then print them all out to view). Pay particular attention to items that make you feel beautiful, bring you joy and inspire good feelings.
3. Use Your Imagination
   Find a place where you can be uninterrupted for 10 minutes and close your eyes to imagine places you love and why you love to be there. This could be a vacation spot you visited, a scene from a movie or even a piece of artwork you like. With this in mind, envision what your dream home would look like. Do not put any constrains of cost or location on it. You can take this even further and imagine the most beautiful dress, jewelry and shoes you might wear to a formal occasion. Write down your answers or find images in magazines that match your ideas.

Now that you have some input on your personal style, look for commonality among the results from the three exercises to help identify your decorating style. This can be tricky, but, the basic themes will be:

• Classic Style – Timeless Elegance
• Modern Style – Color, Contrast and Clean Lines
• Cozy Style – Comfort and Warmth
• Vintage Style – Eclectic, Quirky, Curvy and Historic

We’ll post more details on each style in a future blog post. Until then, happy DIY decorating from your friends at Wall Slicks, the Original Wall Decal Store.

Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Classic
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Modern
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Cozy
Read Three Steps to Define Your Decorating Style - Vintage