2025 Home Reset | Decorate with me our brand new home | Main Living Room

Hello everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Happy new year. I hope your year has started well. If not, then I wish you all the best. I hope none of you are affected by the forest fires in La. If so, then I'm sorry. And wherever you are, I hope that 2025 will offer you everything that 2024 left to be desired. In today's video I focus on setting up our living space. We moved in and Christmas is just around the corner. That's why I didn't really have the opportunity to design the room the way I imagined it. The biggest changes we have made to our home are curtains and blinds. We bought two pages of black friday bamboo blinds. That was a big investment. I wanted to emphasize the big windows and give our home more warmth, because everything is white. I chose a variant without food so that I can keep the windows closed and still get a lot of natural light. I like them, but in my honest opinion they are far too thin and of poor quality for the money we spent on them. I strongly recommend that you order before ordering and see and feel what they look like. My couch is from Ashley's Furniture. It was recommended to me by my best friend Evelyn. It's the biggest table I could get for my budget and I really love it. My sofa is from Castle. We've had it for a year now and I still love it. But the move-in helpers broke the brackets that hold the individual parts together. That's why I looked for a new one, because I just can't stand the fact that a sofa slips around. I looked at Anabey or maybe even put the same sofa in another fabric. The sideboard was in the dining room of our previous home and I had trouble finding a place for it. I put it in my bedroom for a few weeks, but I had the feeling that the sideboard would not be fair to the room. So, when Christmas was over, I put it out here and I'm really, really excited. So now I have a workspace that I can design and give the room some personality. I also have storage space now. I had been thinking for a long time about where I should put all the things that I had stowed in our storage cabinets and that we no longer have. I don't know if I mentioned that, but we have shrunk. Our previous home was 330 square meters. This one has 27 square meters. I was fed up with cleaning a very large house all the time, but I was not aware that it would be really difficult without storage cabinets. Finding storage space was really great. So I just put the sideboard out here and created three large drawers where I can stow things. Now that the tree is out of the way, I also brought out my olive tree from the display. This is a 2.10 meter tall tree from Amazon. I love the height and size that it gives to this empty corner. I put it in the same pot that I had before. That's the big size in the basket. You just can't have a small pot with a big tree. That looks completely wrong. I think these two complement each other really well. They fit together very well. Another item that I had to get from the attic, because our tree was so big this year, is this sideboard. I found it on the Facebook marketplace and dismantled it, and it is one of my favorite pieces. That's why I can't link it to you. But have you ever liked something so much that you wanted to put it in two places? I couldn't decide where to put this lamp. This is a luxury item. In the end, I sold a lot of decorative items that I didn't want on the Facebook marketplace to buy this lamp. It is one of the things that you personally see and have to hold in your hand to understand the price. And I really love it. So if you really want to have such a lamp, I strongly recommend you to go through your furniture and try to sell as much of it as possible. Furniture that you no longer use, just save everything and then buy this lamp if you really want to have it. I recently bought these baskets at Target. They look very high quality for me and had the perfect height and shape to put them under the sideboard. I then put them on the other side because I don't want to have too many baskets in one area. So I put them on the other side. I like to have a few of Mona's favorite toys in here. She just comes out and looks for her way out. I think that's so cute and I love it to decorate my sideboard. I start with an arrangement on the opposite side of the tree. I don't want too many flowers or green plants in one corner. Balance is important, so I made sure that it is on the opposite side. This vessel from Pappmaché is from Amber Interiors and is currently on offer. I love the shape and color. To do this, I put together flower bouquets from the Hertenhahn line from Target. I used a total of three bouquets and tied them together to get a little more structure. I just pulled the bouquets apart. I wanted a minimalistic flower arrangement that almost looks like a bud that hasn't bloomed yet is perfect for this season. As a gap filler, I add a few more books. The orange one is called The Eye of the Condor. A great way to add a lot of color dabs, a big trend for 2025, are insects and decorative objects. Nothing too conspicuous or permanent. So I put this book together with my other neutral objects. My candle holders are from Home Goods. I recently discovered them. I love how unique, large and affordable they are. They cost $12.99 per piece. And last but not least, I add a vintage wooden bowl from Cottage Inky Home to fill everything up. So far, I am thrilled with the coziness and personality that I was able to create through the combination of old and new objects as well as high-quality and affordable finds. For my couch table, I started with a tablet. This one is from Home Goods and this vintage bean pot. This is a new purchase for me. It is from Cottage Inky Home. You have a limited number of them, if you are interested. I have placed some real hydrangeas in it, which I conserve in autumn. This is your memory of planting hydrangeas this spring. You can conserve them. I am often asked for hydrangeas when I use them. These are real and I can't link them for you. I like to place my stacks vertically and some horizontally. This way, you get a lively look when you shift the direction of the hydrangeas. And my marble bowl is from Olive Tier. I use my characteristic scent from Forget Me Not Candle. One of my favorite candles for my home. I have rearranged the things again and again until I liked them. And the last item I added is this little box. It is from Cottage Inky Home, but it is sold out on their website. But you can find exactly the same one at McGee & Co. For my pillowcases. I repeat myself now. I have been using the same pillowcases from Collin & Finn since last year. I decided for quality instead of quantity last year and I will do the same this year. I didn't have to buy any more pillowcases for over a year, except one for Christmas. And that kept me from wasting money for new pillowcases every season. I will link all the pillowcases I use below in the description. And you can find all the pillowcases under this link. I want to make two more changes here before I'm done. The first one is this ceiling ladder from Olivia. I got gift certificates for Christmas, so I decided to use them for this ladder. I love her and I don't think I've seen her in her shop. They were much higher and more beautiful than the ones I got. That's how it is when you buy vintage items and can't choose exactly what you want to have. But now I have her and can't give her back. So I will make the best out of it. My brown ceiling is from Amazon and I will use this hook to hang it on the wall, because I have a baby. The last item I add in today's video are these ottomans from Target. These are the only things I bought from the Studio McGee line this year. And unfortunately I have to give them back. So I won't have anything from their line this year. They are so pretty. I love the color and the wrinkled skirt, but they are way too big in here. I also noticed that everything here is very rectangular, so I would need a few round ottomans. So unfortunately I have to give them back. But I thought I'd show them to you if you want to see them in person. With this we end today's video. What do you think of our new living room? Please leave me a comment below. YouTube is a little mad at me because I took a break in December and doesn't even show my video to my viewers. So I would be very happy if you leave me a comment. That would mean the world to me. I hope you had just as much fun filming with me as I did shooting this video. See you in the next video.