259. More Style, Less Mess: Declutter and Decorate Your Way to a Home You Love | Shannon Acheson of Home Made Lovely

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We all know that it is important to declutter our homes to maximize our decorating efforts, but decluttering is work we often avoid. After all, decorating is the fun part. In this episode, Shannon shares her process of transforming your home into a place you love to be by taking the right steps in the right order. We chat about where to start when you are overwhelmed by clutter, how to maintain order in a home full of people, finding your decorating style, and more. If the change of seasons has you itching to bring some order and beauty to your home, don’t miss this conversation! In this episode, we cover: The importance of taking the foundational steps before decorating your home How to figure out what you should declutter first The mindset shift to begin turning your current home into your dream home A simple, cozy approach to Christmas decor that doesn’t break the bank Strategies for maintaining a tidy home when you have lots of people home all day Establishing routines that work for the whole family in your current season Ideas for arranging your living room without having the TV as the focal point How to prioritize statement pieces in your decorating while on a budget Identify what your decorating style is View full show notes on the blog + watch this episode on YouTube. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make this show possible! ABOUT SHANNON Shannon Acheson is an author, entrepreneur, content creator, home organizing and interior decorating expert, and the creative force behind HomeMadeLovely.com - a celebrated blog helping moms declutter, organize and add style to their homes since 2010. RESOURCES MENTIONED Check out Shannon’s previous interview on my podcast! More Style, Less Mess Course by Shannon Check out both of Shannon’s books on decluttering and decorating Shannon’s list of 50 things you should throw away today DIY frame TV tutorial by Sarah from She Holds Dearly CONNECT Shannon Acheson of Home Made Lovely | Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Pinterest Lisa Bass of Farmhouse on Boone | Blog | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | Pinterest Do you have a question you’d like me to answer on the podcast? A guest you’d like me to interview? Submit your questions and ideas here: bit.ly/SFLquestions.

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0:15.0	The very first step is the gratitude one so that's really the mindset piece of loving the home that you have no matter where it is because I agree I think you can make just about any house any space look and feel cozy and like home and beautiful and then the next step of decluttering yeah you cannot no matter how much you try you cannot decorate
0:18.8	clutter you also can't organize clutter you have to get rid of the excess, especially if you're short on space.
0:24.8	My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:30.3	on Boone. Join me as I share with you my love for creating a
0:33.6	handmade home from scratch cooking and a little mom and
0:36.5	entrepreneur life along the way. Welcome back to the Simple Farm House Life Podcast. Today we are going to talk about
0:49.8	decor and decluttering all of those I feel like a great fall topic as a lot of times
0:57.8	we're inside more we're starting to want our homes to be cozy but not messy not hard to maintain with all these
1:04.4	people in there so I think it's a good a good topic for the season with
1:08.4	Shannon who was on this podcast before she's from Homemade Lovely and she has a lot of great
1:13.9	insight to share on the topic. Shannon so great to have you back on it's been a
1:18.5	long time do you remember when you were on last I don't even know what your
1:21.8	month that was I don't know it would have been for one of my books so
1:25.1	20 20 when did the other one come out 2022 maybe I don't know one I don't know I don't know which one it was maybe it was both maybe maybe I don't remember yeah
1:38.6	okay so tell us about your new book we're gonna talk about home decor and organizing and
1:44.9	decluttering and I think people are really thinking about that I know as we
1:48.6	approach Thanksgiving and Christmas people think about it more at least I do we
1:52.4	kind of get this like where I'm
1:54.0	outside I'm doing lots of gardening and homestead type stuff a lot people are
1:57.8	outside maybe if they don't have a homestead at the pool or at the creek and now
2:01.3	it's we're kind of turning into our home so I think it's a
2:04.4	really appropriate time to do that. Yeah no it's true it's true we're we still have
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