Welcome to episode 256 of Live Happy Now. I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and I'm glad to have you back

with us again this week. If you're like most Americans right now, you're spending most of your time

at home. And no matter how much you love the space you live in or the people you share it with,

it might sometimes seem like

it's the last place that you want to be. Today's guest is an expert at turning our homes into

our happy places. Rebecca West believes in putting the home back in home, and she does that by taking

a holistic approach to discovering what you need from your home and how to make the most of the

space you have. She's here to talk to us about how to make our surroundings support what we need from your home and how to make the most of the space you have. She's here to talk to us

about how to make our surroundings support what we need. Rebecca, welcome back to Live Happy Now.

It's such a pleasure to be here again, Paula. It's a great time to talk to you because you're an

expert in homes and most of us are becoming experts in staying home.

So I wanted to get some time with you and talk to you about kind of how we can take the space

that we're in and make it more homey and make it more comfortable and wanted to get your

perspective kind of on what you're seeing some of our

challenges are as we have to stay at home more. Oh, I would love to share everything I know and

be as helpful as I possibly can. Where should we start? Well, I guess first of all, from what you're

hearing, what are some of the challenges that people face in having to go from home being a place where we park at night to it's now where we are?

24-7.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, the list is long.

One of them is for people who are still trying to work to work and now they're working from home, there's all the challenges around

setting up a viable workspace. If they're living with other people, how do they create space

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