You may have read my 4th blog post where I discussed my internal conflict between wanting order and alignment but also wanting a creative, cohesive and flowing style at home. Well, my internal conflict, where different aspects of my personality fight, doesn’t end there! So in this post I’m going to discuss another one of …
At the risk of repeating myself – I hate clutter and mess! As I’ve mentioned, I believe clutter and mess can have a significantly negative impact on someone’s wellbeing and mental state. Some of the impacts I’ve noticed on my cognitive functioning are; reduced concentration, increased agitation, reduced clarity of thinking, increased mistakes or misunderstanding …
Following on from my previous post I want to carry on discussing function as it’s a really important thing for me, given it’s part of who I am to always consider logic first. I’m not going to be able to stop thinking about function so instead I need to reframe the way I consider it …
Something I’ve recently realised is that, from my room at my family home, to my uni rooms, to all the homes I’ve rented and now my apartment – I have always put function over design! As I’ve discussed previously I believe some of these elements of how I’ve styled/organised my home come from my personality …
There is one major tendency that I have, in terms of my personality and habits, that I think has had one of the biggest impacts on my interior styling being unsuccessful – prior to learning the tricks of the trade that is. So I wanted to share this in case it rings true for others …
As mentioned in my first blog post, The GoodHome Report found that your home can account for up to 15% of your happiness. So it’s no wonder that my first apartment has been extremely important to me. Having been super proud of myself for managing to buy my first home by myself, it’s so disappointing …
For a long, long time now I have been obsessed with Pinterest! I can spend hours and hours on it just scrolling through various categories of images, saving them to my many, many boards. The main culprit being my “home” board which had just thousands of images saved to it over the many years I’ve …
Well if you’ve read my ‘about me’ page you’ll know a little about what brought me here. I’ll try and keep it brief – never going to happen! As my ‘about me’ page says, professionally I’m a Psychologist specialising in human behaviour in the workplace. I’ve had a very successful career. Psychology and human behaviour …