You're feeling very relaxed.

I'm Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks,

Episode 378 Style Without Stress.

And I love this topic, Kelly, because I think decorating can be so stressful for some people. Well, we hear that so often from our listeners or vlog readers

that people get all bunched up inside when they start thinking about decorating.

They don't know where to start or they don't know where to go.

They don't know.

They really get hung up on what their style is and how they have to recreate something

they may have seen in a magazine.

So it can be stressful.

It's coupled with some very obvious stressors. You have to make decisions, which sometimes

is difficult. And decisions you're going to have to maybe live with for a long time,

if it's paint color or expensive furnishings. And yes, expense. it costs money to decorate sometimes. So all those

things added together in conjunction with trying to make everyone in your house happy can

really lead to a stressful situation. But we know it doesn't have to be like that. So we're going

to pass on some ideas and tips and

suggestions today to take the stress out of decorating for everyone. Yeah, and I would say it's

broken up into two sections today. The first section is kind of what's going on in your head,

kind of things to make the decorating process itself less stressful.

And the second part are things that you can do in your home to make living in your home less

stressful.

So we're de-stressing the decorating process and the life in your home.

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