251: DIY Design Tips for Peaceful Living Spaces with Tasha Agruso
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ever walk into a home decor store or scroll through Pinterest and feel totally overwhelmed by all the choices? You're definitely not alone. In today's chat, we sit down with Tasha Agruso, the brain behind "Designer in a Binder," to get real about making design choices that feel right and make your space feel like *you*.
Tasha breaks down how to focus on what you love rather than what’s trending to turn your space into a true sanctuary. Forget impressing the neighbors or copying those picture-perfect homes on Instagram. It's all about creating a space that welcomes you with a big, warm "I am home."
In this episode, you'll discover:
- How listening to your gut can lead to the best design decisions
- Tips for finding inspiration without just copying someone else’s style
- Why the colors in your home matter more than you think and how they affect your mood
- Simple steps to stop overthinking and start loving your home decor choices
- Tasha’s personal experiences with home renovation and how she avoids common pitfalls
Join us as Tasha walks us through her approach to making design personal and meaningful. Whether you're looking to spruce up a corner or overhaul an entire room, these insights will help you confidently create a space that truly reflects who you are.
Grab your FREE ticket to the "Beautiful Home Beautiful Life" summit and join us as we delve deeper into creating spaces that inspire and energize.
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.8 | Tasha, welcome back to the show. So happy to have you here. Thank you for having me again. |
| 0:35.8 | It's just an honor to be in front of your audience. And, |
| 0:38.8 | of course, I just love chatting with you. So I'm excited. Yay. Okay. All right, let's start right in. |
| 0:44.0 | For our listeners who are new to maybe DIY design, what are some first steps they should take to create |
| 0:51.7 | a more peaceful living space? Yeah, so the best advice I can give |
| 0:56.2 | anyone is, well, first think, if we really think about what gives most people peace and kind of that |
| 1:03.1 | calmness, it's just being true to yourself, right? Like, you don't want to feel like you're in a |
| 1:10.1 | stranger's house. This is kind of the |
| 1:12.0 | best analogy I can give. And the only way you can get to that point is if you tap into and |
| 1:20.6 | embrace your own unique style. So what I mean by that is you don't want to worry about whether other people will like it, right? |
| 1:30.2 | It doesn't matter if your neighbor down the street. |
| 1:32.1 | Even if you love and admire their home, you shouldn't be focused on or even asking yourself, |
| 1:37.6 | well, would my neighbor like it? |
| 1:40.2 | Or would this influencer or celebrity designer who I follow on Instagram, is this something they would |
| 1:45.6 | do? Once you kind of stop asking yourself those questions and you realize they're irrelevant |
| 1:51.1 | because those people don't live in your home, then you're going to finally, and I say this because, |
| 1:57.2 | I mean, I was doing those things for, you know, my younger years when we were first |
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