Like It Or Not, You Are An Interior Designer

A lot of people passionately deny that they even give fashion a second thought, but they are all essentially liars. Even if they don't wear designer clothes, they choose to wear one kind of clothes over another and so do give fashion a thought. The same thing is true of interior design. If you have stuff in your home (or even if you choose not to!), you are an interior designer.

Think about it. We all live someplace and even if we live with our family, we still leave our mark in some way or other. Even a fridge magnet or those little home decor accents you placed on the window sill makes you a contributor to your home's decor.

Traditionally, men have been the ones to deny that they had anything to do with decorating their homes. 'I just pay the bills, ' a husband quipped, 'the little woman chose the designer baby bedding and everything else in here.' The wife chose the color schemes, the fabrics and everything else, so she was the main home decorator.

That was true to a certain extent, but it didn't tell the whole story. There is no question that if the wife painted their baby son's room pink and gave him pink designer crib bedding, the husband's inner interior designer would rebel! His quarterback son wasn't going to live in a girl's room!

What's the point of all this? Just this: you are an interior designer, whether you know it or like it or not. Why not make the best of this inescapable truth and let your home's interior reflect the things you like the best about yourself?

Hopefully, you are already enough of a decorator to clean up after yourself! Next time you're cleaning up the room, why not move some things around or change them altogether. Have a good look around and see what still means something to you and what's just there because you no longer notice it. Change those old photos on the wall or shift them to another place. Just doing little things like that can make for a refreshing change.

Your home, however humble or grand, should be a place of comfort and inspiration to you. If it is, it can help you on your life's journey in immeasurable ways. Don't think that you're not an interior designer or that it doesn't matter. It does, in more ways than you may know!