Week #11 - The Joyful Home Project - Give Your Space a Plant-Over

We have arrived to Week #11 of The Joyful Home Project. This week we are going to add plants to your space(s). Give your Space a Plant-Over, and add some amazing plants. Adding plants to your home brings the outdoors in, it adds a feel of calm, they look beautiful, and it’s always a good thing to bring nature into your home.

My advice to adding plants into your home is to start small. Maybe just add one plant into your home especially if you don’t have any yet. After you feel comfortable add another. Before you know it, you might have a home filled with different plants. Remember when you are adding the plants into your space, you need to think about natural light and you also need to think about watering them by putting your plants on a watering schedule.

I have my favorites which I will share with you now…

Rubber Plant

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Fiddle Leaf Fig

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Snake Plant

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Cactus

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Ivy Plants

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Aloe Vera

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So this week if you don’t own any plants, go out and buy just one plant. You can purchase them at your local Grocery Store, Home Depot, Lowes, Farmers Market, and yes Amazon! If you already have a plant, think about adding more.

For me taking care of my plants and watering them is very therapeutic, I enjoy it and they make me very happy. I love finding a new leaf on them and I have propagated many already. Good luck, and enjoy adding plants into your space(s). Give Your Space a Plant Over!!

Week #10 - The Joyful Home Project - One Amazing Thing

Hey you! How are you? How is your Joyful Home Coming? We are on Week #10. This week is called One Amazing Thing. What I mean by One Amazing Thing is that for each room in your home you should have One Amazing Thing that stands out, that pops, that says this is your home! We are clearing out, decluttering, and making our home Joyful so stand back and look into each room and is there something that just stands out to you, something this is amazing?! Probably not, right! Let’s change that this week. Let me help you with some ideas. Imagine you invite a lot of people over for a party or get together, what is the one piece in the room that everyone is talking about? Don’t worry if you don’t know what it is, that is my job to help you. Here are some examples of One Amazing Thing in your space.

• A curved sofa

• An incredible piece of Art

• Wallpaper

• An extraordinary piece of furniture

• A Vintage Piece

• An Area Rug

• Something Sexy

• A sculpture

• A light fixture

• A gallery wall

• A magical fireplace

I hope this got you thinking. Now you might already have something like the examples above but maybe there are all in the same room, or maybe they are hiding in your basement or attic. Time to get these pieces out or it might be time to go shopping.

I have some Inspirational Images Below to get you thinking. Remember you want One Amazing Thing in each room. Everything else in the room compliments this One Amazing Thing, that everybody talks about.

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Source - Furniture Piece (the chair)

Source - Statement Wall done with tile to match flooring

Have fun with this one. If you plan on doing something like this tile example, plan for it. You are not going to be able to make this happen over night, but you can start planning and put a date of completion on it. Have fun adding the One Amazing Thing to each of your rooms, and don’t forget to share them on Instagram #thejoyfulhomeproject

Week #9 - The Joyful Home Project - Work Your Space

Here we are together at Week #9 of The Joyful Home Project. This week we will be organizing, decluttering, and cleaning our desks off and I am calling it, Work Your Space! Sometimes (and I am guilty of this too,) our desk surfaces become so cluttered we re-locate ourself to work somewhere else like our dining table. Are you guilty of this? I know, my desk will have so many piles on it, I get overwhelmed and I just go to my dining table. Well this week we are going to tackle our desk surface and clean it up. We are taking back our desk surface, Work Your Space!!

The way to go about this, is the following. Trust me this really works. I have tried several ways and this is the only way to keep your desk surface clean and for me it will last for the entire month and by the end of the month, I see my desk is starting to have piles on it again so I just start over every month. I am hoping that I will get better and stretch is out to 2 months or even every quarter but we have to take this is small steps. So here you go…

Steps to Declutter your Desk Surface in a week

1. Clean everything off your desk surface - put it on the floor or another table

2. Clean the desk surface with water and dawn in a spray bottle or something organic that smells great and cleans all the dirt and dust.

3. Make piles/stacks of the stuff you took off your desk - for example - to toss, to file, to save, to donate, to put away, etc.

4. Now that you have the piles/stacks do what you need to do to get all of that away

5. You might need to get a container, or a file, and/or a box to clean and declutter everything you took off the desk. The goal is to not bring it back to the desk surface. Put it away, throw it away, and/or file it away.

6. Now rearrange your desk surface with the essentials that you need and give yourself a high five! Share your pictures on Instagram at @thejoyfulhomeproject

I have some inspiration pictures for you here to get ideas on your desk surface! Good luck, I can’t wait to see your Before and After’s. #thejoyfulhomeproject

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That is it for Week #9, The Joyful Home Project, Work Your Space! I am excited for you to clean and declutter that desk surface. It is such a good feeling when it is all clean and organized, trust me!!

Week #8 - The Joyful Home Project - Elevate your Everyday in your Bathroom

Hello My Joyful Home Project Champion. How are you doing? I hope that your home is starting to feel more Joyful each and every week. We are on Week 8 now! How did last week , Make and Entrance work out for you? I am curious how your Entrance into your Home is looking. Send me your pictures. Follow our tag #thejoyfulhomeproject on Instagram and tag your pictures.

This week we are moving into the bathroom to Elevate your Everyday. One room you for sure use everyday is your bathroom and this week your are going to elevate it to the next level. Your bathroom should be clean, organized, smell amazing, and be functional. It does not matter what size your bathroom is- big or small, it just needs to function properly for you.

The first thing you will do this week is clear your counters. Your counters should be clear of clutter and “stuff.” Use your drawers, cabinets, medicine cabinet, and/or something to contain all your “stuff.” You can always use the Toilet Tank Lid as a shelf. Purchase a tray that fits on the toilet lid and store your must-haves on the tray. The tray is the crucial part in case you need to remove the lid and when you are cleaning, you just raise the tray to remove everything.

Clear the clutter on your countertop’s in your bathroom today and store the “stuff” elsewhere. As always, I have some great examples below for you.

A little shelf about the toilet serves as decor and/or storage

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Clean Countertops, Statement Backsplash, and a lot of storage for all the “stuff.”

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Add a little floral to your clean countertops.

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Bring in a Side Table, Bench, and/or stool to hold some of your items while in the bath or shower.

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Have fun Elevating your Everyday, your Bathroom! Clear the Clutter and Create the Joy. #thejoyfulhomeproject

Week #7 - The Joyful Home Project - Make an Entrance

Hey you! We are working on Week #7 now which I am so excited to introduce you to this week. Make an Entrance! Your Entrance into your Home is what makes you happy when you arrive and what greets your guests when they come over! So what does your Entrance look like? If it is a hot mess, no worries that is why you are doing The Joyful Home Project and this week you will focus on your Entrance into your home.

You Entrance is your Front Door but the really Entrance is when you walk into the Front Door. Do you have a drop station? Everything should look tidy, clean, and organized. You should have s spot for your mail, your keys, your handbag, your shoes, your coat, and whatever else you bring back with you on a regular basis.

If I had the opportunity to come to your home, I would tell you that your Entry Way is your Focal Point and not only should it be tidy, clean, and organized but it should greet guest with something unexpected, something they didn’t see coming, inviting, fun, bud edgy maybe even over the top!

I put some ideas for you together below…

Bold Art and Plants a great additional to your Entry. Source

Places to sit to put your shoes on! And adding wallpaper is always a plus!!

Hit your local Vintage stores and find yourself a statement Console Table like this. Also, the Gallery Wall is another statement. Source

Think Drama!!! Look around your house, shop your house and Make and Entrance!

If you don’t know already, my style is Black and White. I love to make the back drop of your house black and white and then add color in or sometimes no color! Love the use of pale pink here. Great ideas for the handbags and the Drawer Unit to store all the “stuff.” Source

I hope you are enjoying The Joyful Home Project. Join the #thejoyfulhomeproject on Instagram

Week #1 - Morning Routine

Week #2 - Clutter Free Zone

Week #3 - Create a Monday Zone

Week #4 - Create a Reading Corner

Week #5 - Sleep, Meet Sexy

Week #6 - Glam it Up

Week #7 - Make an Entrance

Have a great week!

Week #6 - The Joyful Home Project - Glam it Up!

We are doing great! We are now on Week #6 of The Joyful Home Project and I am sharing with you today how to Glam it Up! That is right, Glam It Up with your Beauty/Makeup Organization. Do you have makeup everywhere? Do you have lotion, cream, moisturizer, makeup, perfume, body spray, and everything else but the kitchen sink to organize? I know, I feel you, me too! You want it out, so it is easy to get to, but then it just takes over and your husband or boyfriend is going crazy with all your “stuff!”

This week we will tackle our Beauty Routine/Makeup Routine and Organize the heck out of it. I don’t want to tell you exactly what to do, because we are all different and we all use different beauty products. That being said, I will help guide you to sanity with your Beauty/Makeup Organization. Glam it Up!

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Throw away any products you have not used for six months. If you have not used them in the last six months, you will probably never use them again. The only item I keep longer than six months is Red Lipstick (because I rarely use it), Nail Polish, and Perfume.

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Make piles for each category.

• Perfume/Body Spray’s

• Moisturizer’s

• Lotions

• Eye Makeup

• Lips

• Face Makeup

• Serum’s

• Brushes

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Where are you going to store all these items? Some categories might go in a drawer or a cabinet and the others might go on top of a vanity to display. After you have figured out where all your categories will go, you can go to the store or shop online for any containers you might need. Don’t purchase containers until you do this step first.

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Organize your Makeup and now you will have an amazing Beauty Makeup Area just for you and your “stuff.” Glam It Up!!! Share your Glam It Up moment on Instagram #thejoyfulhomeproject

Ideas…

Idea Sources

1 - Make Up Lovers Unite

2- Style Caster

3- Better Homes and Gardens

4- Container Store

5- Twinspiration

6- Style Caster

7- Vanity Collections

8- Vanity Collections

Have fun Glamming It Up! Share your pictures on Instagram using #thejoyfulhomeproject and tag me @dinamariejoy

Week #1 - Morning Routine

Week #2 - Clutter Free Zone

Week #3- Monday Zone

Week #4 - Create a Reading Zone

Week #5 - Sleep, Meet Sexy

Week #5 - The Joyful Home Project - Sleepy, Meet Sexy

We are in Week #5 of The Joyful Home Project already. How are you doing so far?

The Joyful Home Project -

Week #1 - Create a Morning Routine

Week #2 - Create a Clutter Free Zone

Week #3 - Create a Monday Zone

Week #4 - Create a Reading Corner

Week #5 - Sleepy, Meet Sexy

Sleepy, Meet Sexy. We are focusing on our Master Bedroom this week. Your Master Bedroom should be one part restful, and one part seductive. When you think Master Bedroom think about only two things, rest and intimacy. It is time to get rid of distraction in your Master Bedroom. In your Master Bedroom these are the only products/items you should have.

• Good Mattress

• Amazing Sheets

• Plush Bedding - Cozy Blanket(s) and Comforter

• Side Tables and or Dressers used as side tables

• Dresser if you need one

• New Sleeping Pillows Every Year

• Good Natural and Accent Lighting

• Fresh Flowers

• Comfortable Rug

• Drama and Textures

• Decor that brings you joy

Your Master Bedroom should not have personal photos, no television, and no technology. I know this is probably going to be hard for you, but these items do not belong in a Master Bedroom. Your bedroom should feel calming, relaxing, dramatic, seductive, it should smell amazing and look amazing. Don’t forget to make your bed everyday.

I know this is a sensitive subject but lets chat really quick about kids in the bedroom. The bottom line, is you have to do what is right for you but I would highly recommend you keep the kids from sleeping in your bed. The best thing I ever did in all my homes is put a bed for adults in my babies rooms. My kids have never slept in my bed and they think it is really weird that some kids sleep with their parents. By providing an adult bed in their rooms you can sleep with them when they need you; when they are sick and or scared. They learn very quick this is their space, they learn to love their space, and they enjoy when you are there for them too. You have to remember the bed is made for two not three, four, or more!!! How did you bring these little cuties into the world? I am guessing, there was not anyone else in your bed!!!

Focus this week on bringing warmth, drama, and seduction into your bedroom.

Have a great week!

4th Week to The Joyful Home Project - Create a Reading Corner

We are still going strong, right?! Today, I introduce you to the 4th week of The Joyful Home Project. This week we will focus on creating a Reading Corner somewhere in your home. I think one of the most relaxing things to do for yourself (self-care) is to curl up and read a book, a book you really enjoy. The reading corner can be used to study as well, if you are in school, or it can also function as the reading area where you read to your children. It does not matter where you create the reading corner in your home, I would just suggest that it is an area that gets good day light and a place that has little distractions. I will share with you throughout the week some ideas for a reading corner.

To recap The Joyful Home Project -

Week 1 - Create a Morning Routine

Week 2 - Declare a Clutter Free Zone

Week 3 - Create a Monday Zone To Do…Here is your link

Week 4 - Create a Reading Corner

Follow Along on Instagram Stories -Here is your link

And share your ideas and projects from your Joyful Home on Instagram using #thejoyfulhomeproject

Have a great week!