
DIY: Adding Color to Your Space
Alright, you’ve fallen into the fad of neutral tones and whitewashed textures and your home now feels like a glorified hospital waiting room. Sure, maybe it’s ‘calming’... but maybe it’s just boring. Maybe it’s trending… or maybe it lacks any trace of you-ness.

DIY: Making a Gallery Wall
We all do our best to make our houses feel like homes, but often they can feel more like temporary dwellings for little more than sleep and storage. Often this is because there is nothing of us in them—no character, no personal touch.

DIY: Making a Shelf Display
“Why can’t I make my shelves look like the magazine?” This is the cry of many home decorators trying something new. But don’t sweat it! We’re here to give you a few tips for your DIY shelving endeavor.

DIY: Updating Your Front Porch
Your first impression sets the tone and expectations for the rest of your interaction. It is no different for homes. Your home should be an inviting space, from the front steps to the last post of the fence.

DIY: Updating Your Kitchen
If we are to spend so much time and make so many important memories in this space, then it should be a space we like to spend our lives in. Thus comes the subject of today's post: DIY Kitchen Updates.

Navigating the World of Digital Communication
Not too long ago, a series of articles about improving our communication skills would not have needed an installment about digital communication. The articles would have been released in a magazine rather than on a blog, and if you wanted to get a hold of someone, you’d either have to call their landline or track them down in person..

The 5 Kinds of Conflict Resolution
Conflict. Nobody wants to deal with it. Everybody has to sometimes. So how do you deal with it well? We’re on a mission to become more effective communicators, so how do effective communicators approach an interpersonal conflict? In today’s post, we’ll look at the five different styles of conflict resolution and discuss why one of those five is almost always the right choice.

Giving & Receiving Feedback Effectively
You have to give constructive criticism to a member of your team. How are you going to do it? Giving feedback is hard. And that’s largely because receiving feedback is hard. How can you be firm enough to get results when offering constructive criticism but kind enough to not end up hurting someone’s feelings? How can you motivate the people around you to do better when you first have to tell them that they’re not doing as well as you want them to be?

Becoming a Better Listener
How do you know when someone is listening to you? Most of the time it’s pretty easy to tell. Someone who’s listening to you—really listening to you—makes eye contact, they give feedback by nodding or mirroring your facial expressions. Someone who’s listening to you interacts, sometimes asking additional questions or affirming their agreement with you.

Understanding Verbal & Nonverbal Communication
Think of the difference between reading a book and listening to an audiobook. Think of the difference between listening to an audiobook and watching a movie. Between watching a movie and going to a play. In this post, we’ll look at the differences between verbal and nonverbal communication through this lens of storytelling.

Overcoming Challenges in Communication
When it comes to communication, there are many challenges that we face every day. Effective communication does not happen accidentally; we have to work at it with intentionality and perseverance! Today, we’ll look at three of the most common obstacles that disrupt our communication with others, and we’ll see what steps we can take to avoid them.

Why Does Effective Communication Matter for You?
Communication is key. It seems like people are always saying something along those lines, but what do they actually mean? And are they right? In this new blog series, we’re going to discuss how all of us can practice and grow in effective communication.

DIY: Organizing Your Closet
We’ve all heard the phrase ‘skeletons in the closet.’ It’s meant to be a euphemism for dark secrets but for some of us, the saying might be a bit more…literal. Of course, I don't think any of us have literal skeletons in our closets but the cupboard might very well be too cluttered for us to be able to tell.

DIY: Tuning Up & Refinishing Furniture
This one’s for all the thrifting and ‘use it till the legs fall off’ people out there! You want furniture that will get the job done without the hefty price tags of brand-new designer items, so you turn to thrift stores and garage sales. We understand, and we’re right there with you! But there are easy and cheap ways to give your well-loved furniture a tune-up, and we’re going to share them with you in this post!

DIY: Building Raised or Mounted Planters
Calling all plant parents! We have a project just for you. Is the floor space of your home dominated by the pots containing your sunshine-sucking tenants?
May we introduce: raised and/or mounted planters.

DIY: Updating Your Laundry Room
In the day-to-day, it is easy to allocate the more mundane tasks and unpleasant chores into a certain ‘just get it done’ category in our minds. Taking out the trash, washing the dishes, making the bed: We do these things every day without a second thought, never considering how they might be transformed into enjoyable and edifying activities.

DIY: Building a Fire Pit or Ring
As the weather gets cooler in the autumn months, it’s nice to have a way to still enjoy the outdoors comfortably. That’s why you should think about installing a fire pit or fire ring in your backyard! You can enjoy it with your family or have friends over to make s’mores.

Decorating Your Home for Christmas
We all know that the most wonderful time of the year can also be one of the most stressful times of the year for a lot of different reasons. Maybe hosting family is hectic or your December calendar fills up in what feels like minutes. The last thing you need is to also be stressed about decorating your home for the holidays.

Decorating Your Home for Thanksgiving
Every November, there is a war between people who are ready to start celebrating Christmas and those who fiercely defend the day that stands between Halloween and the official start of the Christmas season in the United States. That day, of course, is Thanksgiving – on the fourth Thursday of November. Whether you put up your tree the moment Halloween is over or can’t hear a note of Michael Buble until Black Friday begins, we can all agree that Thanksgiving is worth preserving in the midst of the yearly decorating debate.

Decorating Your Home for Fall (& a Fear-Free Halloween)
When it comes to decorating your home for different holidays, there are different challenges and different appeals. In the spring and especially in the summer months, decorating can only go so far because many of those holidays like Memorial Day and the 4th of July are primarily celebrated outdoors. The holidays that fall later in the year, however, offer a different charm for decorating.