Decor, Cozy Minimalism, and Creating a Functional Home with Myquillyn Smith EP 196

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is a planning-adjacent topic! Sarah opens with a bit about her own decorating and organizing challenges and then interviews author Myquillyn Smith, an expert on decorating and creating functional spaces within the home. They chat about many planning-related aspects of big home projects, including how to get started when it all seems daunting, tools for tracking home projects, and an incredibly useful framework for order of operations. Myquillyn prizes functional decorating and creating a home that truly works for then ways you use it. Her beautiful new book, House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget can be found wherever books are sold. Find Myquillyn at thenester.com and @thenester on IG. Episode Sponsors: Factor: Visit factormeals.com/plans50 and use plans50 to get 50% off your first box, plus 20% off your next month! Jenni Kayne: Find perfect transitional spring pieces at at jennikayne.com. Use code PLANS at checkout to get 15% off your first order and support the show! PrepDish: Super convenient and delicious meal plans straight to your inbox! Check out PrepDish.com/plans for your first two weeks, FREE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans. This is your host Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent. I am very excited about today's episode. It's actually very topical for me right now. I don't know.
0:23.6	I'm struggling with some of my own long-term projects. The good news is that I don't feel stressed
0:30.4	about them per se. My systems work well enough that I know what I have of my plate. I know
0:36.0	that everything that's on deadline is manageable. I know what my have on my plate. I know that everything that's on deadline is manageable.
0:38.6	I know what my priorities are. And yet I have a few bigger projects that I have taken note as I did
0:45.3	my quintile goal setting that I just haven't really made much forward progress with this year.
0:50.7	And one of them involves my home. I've talked previously about how I'd really like to just
0:57.0	get things more organized. I've tried a number of things, and along with organization,
1:03.2	is just creating a space that feels beautiful and welcoming and that provides the function that I
1:09.6	want in our home.
1:12.9	And certainly we have the basics.
1:14.7	You know, we have a table to eat.
1:17.2	The kids have places to work, et cetera.
1:19.3	But there's just a lot of clutter.
1:22.7	There's not a lot of attention to detail.
1:27.9	And I don't know, my house is just a little bit of a disappointment to me right now, especially since I did set that as one of my primary goals for 2024. So when I received a
1:34.4	consideration to interview today's guest, I thought this would be perfect because she's
1:40.0	a decorating expert, but I can tell she's also very passionate about how people use their
1:44.7	home and creating a space to truly live in. And I thought she might have some useful tips
1:49.4	to maybe get me out of some of my ruts and help anybody else in a similar boat, perhaps get started.
1:55.3	So I am going to let her chat, let the interview begin. It was a really fun conversation, and I'll be back at the end
2:02.6	of the show with a little bit of a wrap-up. And here we go. Here's Mike Quillen Smith, the author of
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