S5 Ep172: Investing in Your Space with Chelle and MacKenzie

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie talks with her good friend Chelle Bruzas about making a house a home and creating spaces that minister to your family and friends. Chelle and her family have moved houses several times, and she has some great ideas to share with us about how to invest in your house and make it truly your own. (Affiliate links are used in this content.)

Asking questions on how to make your house a place of ministry to others
Chelle talks about accepting the gift that is their new home
MacKenzie asks Chelle to explain her process of embracing a space
- Thinking about what styles she likes
- Learning how different details change a space’s appearance
- Pinning room photos that strike her as appealing and curating those boards
- Chelle mentions the paint color “Agreeable Gray” by Sherwin Williams
- Thinking about how to best use the space functionally for doing what they love

How do I make those people who come through the doors of our home feel welcome and love, seen and known?

Chelle Bruzas

What MacKenzie has discovered by creating a special space on her back patio
Choosing to live your life now and not always being in a state of waiting
Balancing trends and classic styles in decor
Chelle explains the 80/20 rule for white and color
Knorpp and South’s RV renovation videos on Youtube
Chelle’s story about hearing the bells and having her special roses at their new house
Chelle’s Pinterest Board for “Birdsong”

Resources Mentioned- Books:

Cozy Minimalist Home by Myquillyn Smith

Find Chelle-

You can find Chelle Bruzas on Instagram @chelle_bruzas.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.

Thanks to Our Sponsors-

This episode of Cultivating the Lovely is brought to you by Plan to Eat meal planning service. Visit PlanToEat.com/LOVELY to start your free 60-day trial instead of the normal 30-day trial.

Transcript

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0:00.0	That's just a big, a big part of this house for me is not just our family, but the people I know
0:04.6	that will be, just be able to welcome in.
0:17.8	Welcome to cultivating the lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website
0:37.7	at cultivating thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating
0:43.2	the lovely or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact
0:47.7	with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining me today.
0:54.0	Hello, ladies. Welcome to July. I can't believe we're
0:58.2	in July, but I'm also really thankful we're in July because the first six months of the year,
1:02.8	we're really a dumpster fire, and I think we're all ready to be done with them. So if you would
1:07.5	like to take back your July with the rest of us in cultivating the lovely,
1:12.8	we actually have a whole Take Back Your Life July guide that was released in Patreon.
1:18.9	You can find us at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely.
1:21.9	It's got all sorts of ideas in there to help take you step by step back into planning your life again and getting back on top of it.
1:30.0	I know that a lot of us have just felt discouraged and our brains have been in survival mode.
1:34.3	All we've been able to think about is the next thing that we need to do.
1:38.3	The whole idea of planning has been lost on a lot of us.
1:42.8	And so now is the time to start, you know, pulling our heads back
1:47.2	out of the difficulty and getting back on our feet again. And I want to be there for you every
1:53.4	step of the way as I do the same thing. I created this guide and we've got community and amazing
1:58.5	stuff going on over in Patreon. So come and join us over there.
2:02.1	It is so much fun.
2:03.4	We're doing even more lives than we ever had.
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