Homes Are Made to Be Lived In - 2026 reset

Homes Are Made to Be Lived In

There is a quiet pressure to love every corner of our homes — perfectly styled, perfectly finished, perfectly Instagrammable. But real homes aren’t like that.

They evolve. They gather layers. They hold memories, mistakes and moments.

That said…

If your home feels heavy, cluttered or uninspiring, it’s often because it’s holding too much of what you’ve outgrown.

Start as you mean to go on

Let 2026 be the year you stop living around your home and start living with it.

You don’t need a full renovation. You don’t need a shopping spree. You need clarity.

Step one: the one-room edit

Choose one room — a spare bedroom, dining room or even the garage.

This is your editing room.

Go through your home and move everything you don’t love into that space:

• Furniture you keep “just in case”

• Pictures you no longer connect with

• Cushions, throws, lamps, chairs that don’t earn their keep

Then sort into three piles:

1. Sell – items with value that someone else will love
2. Donate – items that still have life, just not in your home
3. Let go – the hardest, but most freeing pile

This single act shifts the energy of the entire house. In feng shui terms, you’re removing stagnant energy and allowing space for flow.

Step two: choose one room to transform

Now choose one room only, one room at a time otherwise you will be overwhelmed.

This is important — overwhelm kills momentum.

Using what’s left in your home, begin to make this room exceptional:

• Move artwork from another space

• Swap lamps between rooms

• Reposition furniture for better flow

• Edit rather than add

From an interior design perspective, this works because repetition and balance already exist within your home. From a feng shui perspective, you’re strengthening one area before expanding outward.

Step three: live with it

Sit in the room. Notice how it feels.

Does it calm you? Energise you? Invite you in?

When one room feels right, confidence builds. Decisions become easier. You begin to trust your instincts again.

A home with intention

Homes aren’t finished — they’re curated over time.

And loving your home doesn’t mean loving everything you own. It means surrounding yourself with things that support who you are now, not who you were.

One room. One decision at a time.

That’s how homes — and lives — change.

Apply this technique to every room.

Kerrie x