I would also recommend to stay in different styles in Airbnb places. My husband and I stayed in Scandinavian minimalistic house and we both hated it. We were surprised cause we liked the pictures before. But living in and feel it around was different.

I appreciate your psychological approach to interior design. Nothing is more important then how you feel when you come home or when you are at home 😊

Finally, someone who gets it. There are so many youtube creators calling themselves 'designers' and they're all saying the same thing: Which usually amounts to shopping for mass-produced, low quality housewares and furniture because they saw it in a West Elm or Ikea catalogue. That's not design, that's decorating. Glad to see this channel suggests a working-back approach from the FEEL you'd like to get from your home.

When I was a fiber artist (aka quilt maker) and attended quilt shows this trick really helped me to analyze quilts. Pick 3 things you really like in a quilt and 3 things you don't like or would change in it. This trick will train your eyes to break down the image into components that you can then analyze. Works great on Pinterest images and images in design/decor magazines. Before long you'll know what colors, textures, style, size, price range, etc. you favor. Then you'll be ready to shop with confidence.

Hands down the best video on this topic that I've ever seen. Can't stop appreciating how brilliant that first step is. It's only in the past four years I realised that at any point, the colours I want around me are the ones that are fulfilling a deeper psychological need - it's not just a visual preference - just as an example, after a very rough patch in my marriage starting 2018, a separation, and a possible reconciliation that was aborted because I lost my husband to Covid - I have consistently been craving forest green, soft pink, peach, and apricot palettes - colours that soothed my aching, broken heart. Before we hit the rough patch though, it was all purple and fuchsia accents against tropical whites. Perhaps this is why I've never been able to really answer the "what's your favourite colour" question.

I have lived in my home for 3 years now, and still have no decor simply because I am so bad at making decisions. This is the first video that has actually helped me! Thank you so much! The idea of picking a few key words for your style, and then picking what you like in a photo, is so helpful. I see things in Pinterest that I really like, but can’t pinpoint why I like it, so I can’t incorporate it into my house. This video has such good suggestions!

Hehe, garlic flavoured cake! Once again, the humorous details make your videos stand out. I love it!

Traditional, Contemporary, Modern, and Art Deco. I’m eclectic. The colors and style go together, the rooms flow perfectly with tranquility. People that enter my home will say my house is inviting.

I can never figured out what my style is called but I LOVE a home with lots of natural colors (browns, creams, olive green) and natural types/variety of textures. Just feels so cozy and like you’re one with nature.

This is the first of many videos that I find truly helpful in developing my interior design style.

Feeling: swanky, relaxing, airy & unique Style: modern - mid century, Art Deco, scandi I love Pinterest!!!

This was great. I was feeling slightly overwhelmed but I love how she gets straight to the point.

Best video about decorating so far. Thank you

I’m so in to interior design but have yet to find something that ACTUALLY helps me figure out how to deliver what I want/know my interior design style. THIS video helped so much. I tend to get overwhelmed and my inspiration evaporates because of it but this video really simplifies it all for me! Thank u thank u!

This is a highly intelligent approach to figuring out what I want in my project. Thank you.

You seriously have the BEST videos- so helpful! Thank you 😃

You make thinking about design simple, systematic while continuing to be creative.

Yes! First time moving out on my own and started out with a Pinterest board for visuals. What I thought I wanted vs what I ended up with was completely different! There were furniture and decor pieces that caught my eye which eventually narrowed down my keywords to modern earthy contemporary. The one word I wanted to feel when I’m home was, “grounded.” ❤

Loved it, wish I could kiss you for breaking down the Pinterest activity too. Casual suggestions of using Pinterest doesn't get one far apart from a heavily pinned board n overwhelm. Helps to know how to analyse n delete!

We just bought a fixer upper. I am starting from scratch, and feel very overwhelmed. Great video, this helps so much!

A lot of times when I save a photo on Instagram, it's primarily the lighting in the room, usually natural light, that is making the photo sing.

This was such a helpful video!! I’m so excited to start diving into my design style as my husband and I move into our first home ❤

My overall key words: Cozy and uncluttered. To me that means "Rustic minimalism." Natural fabrics, darker wood tones, but no mounted moose heads, please!

We are moving into our new home next month and I'm going with a modern boho design style 🤩 Rust/terracotta, cream, and shades of green. It took me a long time to reach a definite vision, but now I'm there and I'm so excited!

For the longest time I was torn between styles and I couldn't pick just one. I knew all the different elements I liked of various styles but coulnt figure out how to combine them into a cohesive style. Until one day on pinterest I stumbled upon British Colonial style and it was exactly everything I liked. Never knew that style even existed. All this time I was trying to style bohemian/farmhouse but I was never fully satisfied with it.

I think you also need to consider the architectural style. I’ve gone from a English Tudor cottage to a two story Georgian and each was decorated in a style to complement the style of the architect. Now I’m moving into a condo in the city.

I LOVE that you say, "It's about learning to analyse a reference photo and understand WHY you love a particular image."

This technique is what I used when preparing to remodel my kitchen. I looked at a lot of kitchens in Houzz and asked myself what I liked about each one. It helped me choose cabinets, backsplash, hardware, etc. That was in 2014 and I still love it!

I love this video so much!! The idea of leaning into how a space makes you feel is a newer one to me, very different than "which image appeals to you more?" Leaning into the analysis, and what we like about different images, this is great!!!!

Contemporary, sophisticated, airy! Thank you!

Bright, minimalist, airy, natural 😀 Loved your tips 🥰

I admire so many different styles and have to remind myself to distinguish between what I admire and what I want to surround myself with. Traditional seems to suit me best when I take the time to think it through.

I'm definitely a mix of modern farmhouse with a touch of Scandinavian. But I do love to make it my own by adding a little bit of a light color on the walls. That, to me, is what truly makes it my signature style for my home

I’ll get one quality gigantic piece of artwork that I love everything about and optimize around it. Works every time. Adding natural elements such as glass, wood, water, metal, fire (Lighting and candles), linen, silk, leather, cashmere, cotton, jute, etc. will always elevate decor. Mix squares/rectangles with round/ oval pieces to soften edges. Procure vintage or free items to mix with box store stuff. Strategically place mirrors. Black accents are the eyeliner of every room. Be inspired by getting out and seeing, touching and feeling things (Feng shui) vs sitting around on Pinterest, that’s my advice.

Thank you gorgeous. Your process is by far the most informative, intuitive and helpful one I have seen in a long time. Big hug from Melbourne, Australia

This video is the BEST I've seen at guiding you through imagery and feelings. It couldn't have come at a better time for me as we are literally getting ready to break ground on a new build.I have studied photos for a long time but the advice on how I want my home to feel is brilliant! Thank you! 💯

This is the most helpful video I have seen on the subject so far. Very analytical, clear and concise. Thanks so much!

Very clear! Great video. Thank you!

Boho Academia with Art Nouveau accents. :) Cozy and soothing.

Love creamy, airy, timeless, Victorian style with moldings.

Feeling: lively, personalized, stimulating, warm, colorful Style: modern (art deco, post modern in particular) I have just bought my first flat and your videos are really helping me pick and choose what I want to do with it! I feel tired in the minimalistic, neutral-colored spaces that are now the trend in my country. I need colorful pieces and some attention-grabbing eclectic decor to feel at home. Traditionally relaxing spaces make me feel bored and impatient snd I end up more on edge than before if everything looks simple and neutral. The window frames in my new flat are purple, so that will definitely help me to find a lively palette ✨

After a thousand beautiful Pinterest photo, I heavily interest in minimal & art deco, with the airy & elegance feeling, although it will take a long time to achieve but I can clearly picture together what I want to look like & feel in my home, thank you for sharing 😍

Awesome advice. I think that 80/20 rule for styles is a great idea. Just bought and renovated my first house, went for an 80/20 Neo Classical/Scandinavian vibe. It turned out very well!

I love this methodology. Starting with how this room should feel. And then starting the research and narrow it down. One rule I always follow is that I choose neutral/ classic/ more timeless pieces for long-term, like floors or expensive sofa etc and safe the color, trendy items for decoration, like curtains or other items that are easily changeable. And I have one or two center pieces that is my statement of the basic feeling I want to create in the room. Like a huge sofa area around a fire place in my living room. The color of the blankets and pillows or the candles are easily changeable to whatever season I feel like. Like winter with more warm and fluffy textures or summer with lighter colors and less stuff around .. . My feeling ten years ago when my husband and I were creating the living room and renovated it from scratch was "cosy, safe and inviting yet timeless ". We have separated 5 years ago and despite the fact that I changed almost everything, I stuck with my living room. Almost 15 years later, people enter my living room and say oh its so cosy and inviting. And people who know me better, say: "ah you changed to winter, so beautiful and warm " and in summer "your Nordic cold, slim style is back, I love it". I figured out, that is what I needed. To have a central feeling of welcoming friends and a cozy place with timeless statement furniture. And the freedom to adopt the colors of the room quickly and without much ado to the weather outside. Because in summer I want it more Scandinavian style and in winter more like Heavy wooden, stylish chalet in the alps style. Two hearts beating in my chest.

Super helpful. I want to enter my kitchen every morning and feel bright, calm, beach vacation ease…

Best video for figuring out personal home style. Thank you so much!

I loved this. So helpful. Turns out, I'm a Traditional-Grand Millenial! Who knew? I'm 50! Saving this video to share with friends.

Hi Vivien! I love your videos. I’m from Brazil and I can tell you I’ve learnt more about design with them than I’ve done in my last 2 years Interior Design college classes. Thanks a lot!!!

😁🤗 Your videos helped give my living room the “modern tropical book cafe” feeling my heart yearned for! My keywords are airy and peaceful with a slightly masculine edge. Most of my furniture is white, as a clean contrast to the colors in my one huge abstract canvas painting. 🎨 The art has vibrant splashes of amber orange, golden yellows, forest green, and blues. I have accent lighting in sunshiney brass. I love broad leafed tropical plants. My rug is vintage, handwoven with a mysterious mix of midnight blue, royal blue, and the worn white patches that add a lovely softness. Like a starry night sky 🌌. I have a small collection of vintage leather bound books, all in dark green covers and gold gilding. 📚 And there is a dark, solid wood credenza that complements the rustic fireplace. I seriously, rewatched your design videos for a year while researching pieces, thank you for all the help! ☺️

Images of rooms where you'd plonk yourself into it and wouldn't change a thing - truly inspirational like a landscape painting, making you feel and imagine! I've also got tagged images for specific things like light fixtures/ cabinet colour/ organisational hacks etc, but find myself going back to the inspirational ones way more often.

Omg thank you for this thoughtful, practical method for weeding through this overwhelming process.There's so much freedom in choosing the elements or feel of what you like and maybe even developing your very own personalyzed design category. I don't know how many times I've heard/read different ways to choose your style and still come up confused and overwhelmed. I just cannot thank you enough!

Such a great and necessary video, thank you so much!

I’m going for a cozy Japandi with some industrial elements!

this video is gold! thank you so much. i used to ask people how to decorate my space bc i was completely oblivious on how to take decisions about it, now i slowly am developing my taske and loving the process.

I'm growing to like things that feel harmonious with their greater surroundings in general. Not just color families in a room or between rooms, but within whole neighborhoods and within the local geography and flora. Green and brown homes with a lot of wood in the mountains surrounded by evergreen trees feel right. Our stucco and terra cotta dirt-colored homes in Phoenix, even though they all tend to look the same, also feel right. If I were living in a high rise in a city, then maybe I would want to go more contemporary because of the surroundings. I wouldn't be in the 18th floor of a glass and steel building and then decorate the interior in some Victorian style. I wouldn't go ridiculously modern either because I'd want chairs I can actually use, but I find more sense of belonging when the home fits in its place. Some of the beige stucco homes have been around for a few years and ended up being flipped. In many of those, the outside is still tan/beige/dirt and the inside is all gray and white. It looks so incredibly wrong to me. I totally respect wanting to freshen it up, but I'd hope for compromise and some sort of cohesion.

The best I’ve been able to come up with for me is Scandi Boho/colorful scandi/modern boho

Very helpful video, thanks. I think my style is elegant and serene.

Your videos really are excellent and very helpful.

100% agree with beginning at how you want a space to feel. My loungeroom feels lively, vibrant and relaxed. The bedrooms feel restful and comfortable. My home is 80% mid century modern, 15% Scandi, 5% Boho. The design style = modern eclectic.

Even though after buying and owning a flat with very limited budget I managed to make the spaces I have fit for purpose and aesthetically pleasing (which turned out to be Japandi according to my designer friends) I can see how logical you have made the process to be without over simplifying the concept. Very impressed.

I just wanted to say I love all your videos !! thank you so much for all the helpfull tips and all the good content you create ❤😊

Brilliant guide! Side note - Pinterest is an undervalued tool for sure.

first...YOU ARE GREAT GREAT GREAT second...i mixture things, i'm buying whatever i like very much, i trust my self. of course, i depend on my budget. somewhere is solution for everything. i make a piece of modern and traditional with antique things and flowers... I WISH YOU ALL OF THE BEST👏🥰❤

Your recent videos could easily be some university classes 🤗 so much information and very good written. Love to listen to you.

Please do a video about Classic Victorian and Art Deco :) I didn't even know it was a thing, but it's amazing :)

Hi Viv. Big fan from the UK. My style is definitely within the modern oeuvre; I like vintage and some mid-century modern. However, I do like some traditonal ornate pieces thrown in the mix too (especially the frames). I recently came across the term "dark academia" which perfectly encapsulates the look and feel I am going for in my living room. I bought a house last year and have been busy consuming your videos and a few others on youtube to really help me narrow my focus when it comes to decorating, paint colour, furnishings and overall styling. Am tackling one room at a time, which helps prevent me over-thinking or getting overwhelmed by too many choices and am very happy with how things are progressing.

You read my mind. I’m about to redesign my house furnitures and so on. I was kind of confused. Now I know what falls under traditional design style and modern

My style is modern transitional. I am having so much fun now that I know my style.

I record screeched paused at your slide for boho style. Guess thats my favorite :)

OMG I NEEDED THIS FOR SO LONG!!!!

I started (and it is what I like) with white clean coastal - which seems to be the most misunderstood style (very hard to find a classy coastal look without going to a disney seashell anchors horror, or a disney surfer wannabe horror or a cluttered farmhouse). ...but my sofa came with a traditional cover...I then chose a traditional sideboard...I also have a traditional round table and I found two emperor's lampshades which I didn't resist to bring home, so I chose a traditional ceramic base for them ...I'm scared. I think I'm traditional and I may end up with a grandma's house...classy, though

Wabi Sabi appeal to me but I have an eclectic mix of antiques and modern and the weird and still love my stuff. I've been trying for years to figure out how to have it all. When I was a teenager I thought I'll just have two or three houses different style. That didn't happen, spent my life trying to mash them all together in an apartment hahahaha. I have a crystal dish that my grandmother had repaired, it's stapled back together with silver staples, so cool, just like my grandmother was. It's antique, it's Wabi Sabi, it's unique, that's what I like. Life is in the details and the stories.

Enjoyed this conversation a lot. I always love an organized approach to whatever I do. Thank you for your perspective.

I really like your videos and the way you explain things. I binge watched your old videos and i like how your video and content is improving. Look forward for more of your videos!

This video is going to be life changing for me, you hit so many of my buttons I am in a state of overwhelm at the moment. Thank you so very much. Instant subscribe.

I don't usually comment on videos but this one I just had to! We have just bought our first home together and how you have explained to use Pinterest for saving decor ideas is fantastic and fun! Now i can organise and analyse the decor and ideas that will really make me feel good in my new home, thank you!

Just when I needed this video. Thank you Penny!!

Thank you for this wonderful video! I screenshot many, many rooms you show in your videos, you have no idea! So much inspiration! Right now, at this point in my life, I like Scandi, MCM, and even some details of the Farmhouse design. 😊

This feeling concept is so very helpful and has completely changed my approach. Thank you so much!!

I think my style is traditional glam. 😊 I love your videos and this one was very helpful, so thank you!

I find your advice is very useful.

I ended up with a mid century modern style with a steampunk flare. I wasn't sure how it would come out but we get compliments all the time. It really gave me the Calming and warm feeling I was going for.

The Pinterest search refinement tips are very good

Wow! I just made a HUGE discovery. I love imperfect, simple but warm style. I never knew it had a name. Turns out Im wabi-sabi like 90%! I confused it with rustic, farmhouse, modern but never liked what I saw when searched those keywords. Thanks to you I have really narrowed down on what style Im in harmony with!

Feeling: inviting, quirky, clean, comfy Style: I still don't know but I do know I hate post-modern. LOL Fantastic video!!!! 💜

"feeling" key words: cozy relaxing restful peaceful fresh clean inviting airy elegant soothing

That’s some great actionable advice, it really makes it easier to narrow down my choices. Thanks for the clear and on point guidelines.

I love this video! I always went with the feeling as well. But despite loving interior design, I haven't been able to pinpoint my style -- I love so many of them! I definitely lean heavily into the modern/contemporary styles, but some touches of traditional are nice as well. I'd say my abolute favorite styles are boho (but more on the cleaner, less cluttered side), contemporary, japandi, scandi, and industrial. So, a pretty weird mix! But I try to also take into account the architecture of the space -- my previous apartment was more modern, so I leaned more heavily into that, but my current apartment is older and has more character, so my boho side is soaring higher haha

Thank you, thank you, thank you! That makes so much sense and helps sort things out. I’ll let you know how it’s going.❤

My style is mid century modern and Scandinavian. Love this video ...such good content and very well explained 👏

One approach is to start by looking in your wardrobe. It will give you a huge amount of infos on you: What colours, fabrics, style(s) …. you wear and are comfortable with. You can easily thén translate this in your home décoration.

I've been doing this with vanity lights and bathroom. lol It's taking forever and my tastes have changed with the seasons. I've gone super dramatic and dark (winter) to scandinavian (spring) for the bathroom. I commonly think to myself: "I'm so glad I didn't buy that light!" - and it was truly something I loved at one point. Interesting. I'm sure that I would have loved it anyway.

Thank You! So helpful ❤️

That was very helpful. Thank you 🌹

What an amazingly clear and step by step tutorial! Once I started creating a Pinterest board for my photo inspirations I found a style for myself I hadn't thought of: part Mediterranean, part Spanish, part Zen, all warm natural colors where a touch of green or neutral colors really make it feel more cozy. Thanks for being awesome and sharing your down-to-earth, creative advice.

Thank you for the tips. Been having difficulties for a long time, you made it so simple and easy. I love all your videos tips ❤

Your approach is both brilliant and unique. I really enjoyed this video! I can see the effort you put it in.

I love your videos. My own style seems to be traditional furniture, but with a modern ethos. That is, I like things a bit more on the uncluttered side, and although I like balance, I'm not into symmetry. So I have few antique chairs and stained glass lamps, but I decorate around them with modern (but not post-modern) art, a few large, dramatic plants, and woven textures and jute rugs. I also feel like my decor needs to go with the style of home and landscape outside. When I lived near the ocean, I used brighter colors, like turquoise and rust. Now I'm inland, I'm going with softer blues and greens. My style kind of depends on where I'm living. I want to be harmonious with the environment. I'm a Libra. =)

That was sooo helpful, just what I needed and explained better than anyone else.

I love your personality. I definitely I love your taste and content