5 Tips To Make Your House Into A HOME! ⧸⧸ The Classic Girl's Guide To Homemaking 🏠
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Summary
In this video, I talk about how to make your house a home as a classic woman and how to keep it cozy, warm, and inviting. I also talk about the color of the light bulbs you should be choosing for your home to make it a home, and how you should decorate your home in a way that speaks to your style and speaks to who you are.
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hello classic crew and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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if you are new to my channel here we talk about classic living and traditional values and i would
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not available anywhere else it's classicallyabby.substack.com but something i've been
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thinking a lot about lately is how to make a house a home i think very often it's easy to
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kind of move into a house and just let everything sit around as it was not change anything and treat
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it almost like it's transitory and as somebody who has moved every year for a very long time
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i understand the impulse to not treat your house as someplace you're going to be for a long time
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but the fact of the matter is even if you're only going to be somewhere for six months
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or a year it's still a long time for it not to feel like your home so taking the time to decorate
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to put your stamp on things and make things feel super cozy and warm and inviting it's actually really
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important and i think it's very classic because it embraces the idea that home is a really important
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part of the faith family and community you share with people so if you treat your house with respect
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if you're grateful for the house that god has given you if you make it a place where you can host
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and you make it a place where you can live then instead of wanting to go out and explore the world
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and your home is sort of like a stopover in between those trips your home is your main base and you
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love it and you love being there so i want to share today how to make your house a home as a classic
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woman so let's get into today's video number one is be intentional about each piece you bring into your
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home when you walk into a house mentally think about how you're going to make it yours how you're going to
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leave your stamp on things so for a long time i think that i was just into the idea of decor but i
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didn't think about what is the stuff that i like you know what is the stuff that i enjoy so i would go
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to tj maxx i'd see a painting of a flower and i'd be like oh that'll be nice for our guest bedroom
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nowadays i'm much more intentional and deliberate about what wall art i bring in about really every piece
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of furniture i bring into the house i want to make sure that everything we add into our home is
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something that is meaningful to me and that really speaks to my sense of style and also is something
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that is practical and i love so for example all of the pieces for the nursery that we've gotten have
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been stuff that i've really considered before purchasing so this armchair i absolutely love the look of
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jacob loves it too i found the side table for me here which i use for a lamp which i use for the
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sound machine which i will probably use for to put my breast pump on i found this at goodwill and i
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fell in love with it now i know you can't really see it you guys will probably see it in my nursery
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reveal but it is just absolutely stunning and i love putting pictures up on the walls but i want to
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make sure for the future because i haven't really done this yet to choose pieces that i really love
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and that speak to me instead of just oh well it looks nice enough to go on the wall so bringing in
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pieces that are expressive of you and who you are and will make your house feel like it's yours is so
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important i think a lot of people just want the house to feel styled but what makes a classic woman's
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home special is that it is styled in your style it's not just oh anything can go on this wall just
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to fill this empty space it's your specific taste is reflected in your home so finding those pieces
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thrifting them maybe they are at tj maxx things that you love or asking family members most of our
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furniture is from family and it's very meaningful and we really love it but it also is very comfortable
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and it has kind of a history so that kind of thing making sure that it is yours and your style will
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make your home feel special number two is be cognizant of the color of the walls and the color of your
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light bulbs this is something that makes such a huge difference so the last house we rented the landlord
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had painted the walls a very light shade of gray i am somebody who hates a gray wall i love a neutral
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kind of off-white that to me is beautiful it's warm something that has just a hint of tan in it
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is really it speaks to me a lot and i think that it's very kind of cozy and when the paint on the walls
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is that warm color then you can also have warm light bulbs and warm light bulbs make a house feel
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so much more welcoming and inviting these two things will make a huge difference to your home if you
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choose a wall color that is depressing or that makes the room feel small and you choose light bulbs that
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are super white and make it feel medical your house will never feel homey your house will never feel
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welcoming it'll feel sterile so you really want to choose colors wisely you want to choose lighting
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wisely and that kind of thing will make a really big difference to the way that you view your home
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and what you love about your home so actually be really intentional about the colors that you paint
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your house and the light bulbs that you use number four is have a mixture of inherited pieces
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thrifted pieces and new pieces i think that this is something that has given our house a lot of
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character and i really like about it and it also is just a very practical way of decorating your home
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but hopefully will also speak to you and who you are so we have like i mentioned a lot of furniture
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from family luckily we like most of it there are certain pieces that i would not have chosen myself
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but i've grown to love and then we have a lot of pieces that we've thrifted that we really enjoy and
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then we have some new pieces that we have added to our home so having that mixture of things will a
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be more specific to who you are in your style b will kind of give somewhat of an eclectic look which
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can be really fun as opposed to everything looking like you got it out of a box and lastly you have an
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opportunity not to spend a ton of money i've talked about this a lot but home decor does not have to be expensive
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you can find pieces that are affordable but that you also love so finding a piece at a thrift store
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may be a better option than going to ikea and buying something for the same price that you don't like
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or care about and making the effort to find pieces that speak to you will make your house feel really
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warm and especially if people are giving you pieces that's free so don't take pieces you don't
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like of course but if it's a piece that you really like hey why not bring it into your home and
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make an addition there and don't feel scared to give away things that you don't like i've had a
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negative feelings about that in the past but sometimes we invest time and money into things
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that we don't end up liking five years later or as our style becomes more clear we realize that wasn't
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really what we would have wanted now so it's okay to get rid of that stuff and look for pieces that are
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more true to your aesthetic number four is put up wall decor i think that this is one of the most
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important ways to make a house feel homey is to put things on the wall my mom is somebody who does not
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like putting things on the wall she likes it when things are very clean but then every time she comes
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to my house she comments on how many pictures we have up and how she loves that i think it shows
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that you have taken time to really settle into your home and choose pieces that you love so you can
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get you know wall decor in the sense of something like a mirror or you can put up pictures of your
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family which is absolutely lovely or you can hang up paintings that you really like or photography that
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you really like but finding pieces that you love and taking the time to hang it it really does make a
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difference to the way your house feels it doesn't feel like you are able to pick up and move at any
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moment it feels like you're settled and it can bring a lot of joy into a room to see family photos
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or even just to have some pictures that you really like and that reflect you the last way to make your
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house feel like a home is make your house cozy for people and inviting for people so you can do this
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with candles you can do this with blankets and you need to keep your house clean these are the three
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things that i would say are the most important to making your house feel inviting and warm and
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welcoming for people having candles is a beautiful way to make your house feel warm and cozy finding a
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scent that you like or if you want to find unscented just the look of candles is really really beautiful
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and makes people feel settled and at home and blankets everywhere if your house especially if
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you're like us where our house tends to run a little bit cold having blankets available so when
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people sit down on the couch they can just pull one over if they're reading they can just pull one over
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it's just a very cozy homey feeling but really the most important thing is keeping your house clean
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if your house isn't clean when people come over they don't know if you expected them and it can make
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them feel a little bit not at ease you want to make sure that when people come over they know that
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you were planning on having them over and so that means keeping your house clean and that doesn't even
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have to just be for guests you should really be keeping your house clean for yourself i did a whole
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video on cleaning tips here on my channel and i also talked about just the importance of being grateful
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for what we have and loving our homes so it's not just about when people come over we do a deep clean
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it's for ourselves that we keep our houses clean so make sure that you give that feeling
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of coziness to your home so that is how you make your house a home i hope you guys enjoyed today's
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