Are you chasing the after photo? Styling and staging may be seducing you to make the wrong choices for your home design.

As you browse the internet, look at glossy magazines and spend hours on Pinterest, it’s easy to fall in love (and aspire to achieve) the images you see of renovation and building projects.

But it’s not all about the ‘after’ photo.

SHOW NOTES:

The way we view renovations and new homes when we look online, or on reality TV, is very carefully crafted.

Heavily curated homes, with the ‘right’ amount of furniture, artwork, cushions, rugs, and throws, make for beautiful photographs we begin to lust after and collect as inspiration for our own home.

It can be easy to think … “I just need to achieve that ‘look’ and my home will be perfect.

However, in my experience, styling and staging are not what make a home work. It’s not how a great home design is actually achieved. And it can seduce you into chasing the ‘after’ photo, and ending up with a home that’s disappointing and lacks soul.

Far too often I see homeowners start down the path of creating a home that is truly, uniquely theirs … and get lost in the on-trend, stylish and lust-worthy photos. They lose confidence in their own style, their own desires. And they create a cookie-cutter version of whatever is trending on Pinterest right now.

And the worst of it? Because the ‘look’ is usually high-end, they find knock-offs and low-cost substitutes to create it. Knowing they’re not durable. Knowing they’ll break down in a few years. With any luck, they’ll be out of fashion by then, and it won’t matter too much.

STOP.

You … and your home … deserve better than this.

Don’t go chasing that ‘after’ photo at the cost of living sustainably, flexibly and authentically.

Seek your way to keep it real, and create a home that works for you, and your family.

A home that is “YOU-WORTHY”.

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