Organizing your house not only makes it more functional, but also is the groundwork that must be completed if you want to turn your home into a haven -- a place where, from the moment you walk through the door, you feel at ease. So, how can you create such a place? Aside from organizing your stuff, you need to organize your thoughts and feelings about what you want you're home to be, and to do that, you need to know yourself.
Here are some easy exercises that will help you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and what you want your home to be.
1 DISCOVER YOUR VALUES
If you want your home to reflect and nurture you, you need to know who you are. One way is to identify your values; natural inclinations of your personality. Think of values as states of being, not activities. For instance, gardening itself isn't a value, but your garden may be a place where you live your values, such as being creative and spiritual and enjoying learning.
TRY THIS: List five values that best describe you and think about ways to honour them in your home. Let that knowledge influence all your design decisions. To get started, here's a list of possible values and how you might choose to express them in your home.
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You are naturally generous and love to help people. At home, you love to welcome people hospitably. The public areas of your house reflect this. The private areas may be specially designed as a place to recharge and nurture yourself, something that's crucially important for people who give so much to others.
Creating
You love to make things; art, writing, crafts or hobbies. You honour this by giving yourself space to create and by organizing the material you use in your creative play/work.
Discovery/learning
You are an explorer who is absolutely content to discover new information or new ways to do something. Books, for instance, may be a big part of your decorating and you have carefully organized and displayed your collection.
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Thanks for all the tips and lessons. I have definatley learned a lesson in clutter control
Thanks for this perspective, I will now look at my surroundings differently and change a few things to actually reflect my personal values in my home.
I believe that your home should reflect your personality and passions. I am an artist, so my home is full of my own photography and paintings. Books, magazines, music and movies reflect who you are and using them as part of your decor not only outwardly shows this, but it also confirms it within yourself. You are essentially wrapped and surrounded by what you love and what makes you tick. Thanks for this article. I did the exercises and went through the rooms of my home and realized that it does indeed perfectly reflect me.