How to Get the Perfect Home

Do you like interior design?

If you love fashion, you probably love beauty, so I bet you want to have a fabulous home that you adore.

One of my goals this year is to get a beautiful and comfortable home, full of luxurious items that I love.

That’s why I’m so excited about the new video series that Alexandra (from one of my favorite style blogs – Lovely Pepa) is doing with IKEA (one of my favorite stores).

In the first video Lorenzo Meazza, the interior designer from IKEA Spain, gives Alexandra a camera so she can take pictures of all her interior world.

He explains that there’s something in her home that doesn’t reflect how she lives, and that’s why she isn’t happy about it.

And he shares…

The First 2 Rules to Get the Perfect Home:

1. Listen to your home

2. Collect all the elements that inspire you

Here’s the first video:

In the second video Alexandra and Lorenzo go around Madrid looking for inspiration for Alexandra’s new home.

It turns out that decorating your house is a creative project :)

So here the other two rules to start your project the right way.

Two More Rules to Get the Perfect Home:

1. Create a vision board, it will be your emotional and aesthetic reference.
Think about what inspires you, take photographs. It can be a fabric, a color… it’s like creating the soul of your house.

Then create a collage with everything you saw: photos, fabrics, keywords. This will be the essence of your home.

2. Stay true to this vision, in all your creative path.
Especially if you’re very creative, you see one thing you like, then another thing you like even more and you tend to disperse (this is one of my problems for sure ;)). You need to keep the focus on your original vision and follow it til the last step.

Here’s the second video:

These are the two episodes available for now, and I’ll be sharing the new episodes with a quick English translation (they’re in Spanish) in my facebook page when they arrive, so like my page here: http://www.facebook.com/lenapenteado to get the new episodes as they arrive.

Now let’s get to work :)

To get the perfect home, start with these four rules:

1. Listen to your home
2. Collect everything that inspires you (take pictures of your interior world)
3. Create a vision board (with pics, materials, keywords)
4. Always stay true to your vision