Don't Downsize Right Size
Decorating Tips and Tricks
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4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Don't downsize, right-size. Rather than moving, learn how to make your current home fit your current life. You can change your home without changing your address.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't downsize, right size. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wildness, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:16.0 | Today we are talking about downsizing without moving. |
| 0:19.0 | Redesign your home from the inside. Because Kelly, you know, |
| 0:23.7 | you can change your home without changing your address. Ooh, that is really a clever little saying |
| 0:30.9 | there. I like that a lot. There's a lot of reasons why you might not want to downsize. It was like a thing. |
| 0:37.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:38.4 | Just sort of a mentality or like a certain point in your life or your kids are out. |
| 0:44.5 | They're in college. |
| 0:45.5 | They've graduated. |
| 0:46.3 | They've actually, dare I say, gotten jobs and done things like that. |
| 0:51.6 | And you're looking around your house saying, okay, what is next for me? |
| 0:55.6 | Some of you might be in that position now. Some of you might have already experienced that. |
| 1:02.3 | And some of you and most of you probably that are listening will experience something akin to |
| 1:07.5 | that in the coming years. So it's something that Anita and I wanted to talk about. |
| 1:13.4 | We have some tips. |
| 1:14.6 | We also have a DTT Plus episode coming up, focusing on Forever Home. |
| 1:19.4 | So it's sort of a related concept. |
| 1:21.6 | And we're excited to have that discussion with each other and with you. |
| 1:25.1 | But today we're talking about ways you can stay where you are |
| 1:29.1 | and not necessarily like, here's where you put the grab bar in the shower type of tips. |
| 1:36.5 | Well, we do have an episode on Forever Homes that we can link to. So that's the stuff that you can do |
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