Home Decor Updates / Home Styling Ideas for The Winter / Living Room Decor

So it can be a little bit challenging to figure out how to decorate your house in January after all of the holidays and I don't know about y'all but to me January always feels like a dull month. To top it off this year I got a little bit sick but in today's video I am going to be adding some decor staples that I can use in the winter as well as all year round. So if you're here looking for some ideas on how to style your home for this time of year then this video is for you. But before I get started I wanted to share with y'all one of my new favorite products. So I suffer from really dry skin and this cold weather is making my skin even extra dry and flaky. So to help with this I decided to try out the Foreo UFO3 and thank you to Foreo for sponsoring today's video. So let me tell you a little bit about the UFO3 and why it is my new favorite device. 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I have taken down all of the Christmas stuff that was in it and the Christmas pictures next to it. Now I ordered these lights off of Amazon. They're called picture lights and I actually meant to put them up above our Christmas pictures but I never got around to doing it. I love adding little picture lights above either photos, frames. I've also even seen them above cabinets but they give the space like such an architectural cool light element that you can get at an affordable price. So these are from Amazon and they are battery operated meaning that I would just have to take the light off the wall and charge it and put it back on the wall. These are the easiest opposed to hardwired lights. So I was looking on Amazon and there was one that was longer. It was a prettier gold but they were all hardwired lights. So hardwired basically means you can like add it on to a light switch but you have to have the wiring already set up in place or you'd have to go and get an electrician to get the either the light the wires run to the lights unless you're like very handy and can do it yourself. But anyway I looked for a long time for these because I wanted the picture lights to have a curved light. See how like where it actually hangs the light it's curved? We've had we had some of these in our old house but they were a little bit more modern looking because everything was completely straight edge. So I searched a lot to find these and I really like them. You can turn them on and off through a remote control and you can have a timer set on them and you can also dim them. So they are dimmable lights as well. But the first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and charge them and because it came with chargers that we have like a hundred million chargers and next week I'm going to have to go through all of our chargers and organize them or in the next couple of weeks. So what I'm also trying to do with my chargers is I found my little Dymo label cutter. I'm just going to create a quick label real quick and tie that around the cord so I know what cords go with what all the stuff that we have. But before I actually hang these up I need to hang up the pictures first and I need to charge these. So here are the frames that I'm going to be using to place on either side of the black shelf. I got these frames at Target and I like that they are matted. They are size 20 by 30 and the picture insert is an 11 by 14. I initially wanted artwork to go on either side but I couldn't find any kind of pretty artwork and then I thought about ordering frames from Smallwoods which I do have our Smallwood frames in the entryway and I really like those but they only come in three different frame colors and they're a lot thicker frames and for this area I wanted some thinner frames. So I'm going to put hang these up on either side of this black cabinet and then I'm going to hang the picture lights above those. So I got a new microphone and I keep re-recording myself. It's like a podcasting microphone so it's supposed to sound better but I'm not sure if it if you guys can even tell at all. But I'm kind of playing around with decorating the outside of the cabinet first where I'm going to have the pictures and adding a couple pictures. Those top two pictures are from Walmart. I have them in our laundry room but I'm just not sure which route I'm going to go. So what we're going to do next is rearrange our couch. So we had our couch set up where the L shape was going like away from the window that way we would have like the whole window sliding glass doors to feel open and we thought about keeping it this way but I feel like with the cabinet over there and then we have our console table it feels a little crowded. So we're going to move it back but before we move it back I'm also kind of playing around with possibly getting a new couch that's not a sectional that would fit the space better. So we thought about like what if we just did two long couches along either side and then we just got two chairs in the middle and then I decided I didn't like it that way so I don't know we'll have to figure it out later. This was the way that I was talking about. I don't know if I like that because we have the table behind there. I don't know you guys can let me know what you think I should do for the space or if I should just keep this space with a sectional. So we're going to move it back to the original way we had it when we moved in and that kind of helps the lopsidedness of the room a bit. So moving the couch back in front of the window or the slider door helps feel like there's more space over here that's freed up. So the next thing we're going to do is align the picture lights and the picture frames and go ahead and hang them. With the picture light it just has this little metal piece that you screw into the wall and then that's what you're going to use to hook the light on. The back of that light right there it just slides into the wall and then whenever you need to charge it you just pull it out of the wall again and then that's how you you take them off to charge them. But height-wise I wanted them to be exactly the same height as the cabinet not above or below so that everything looks even when you're looking at it. We did mark out the space of the pictures but I couldn't figure out what height level to hang the pictures so when in doubt just google it it does say to hang it between six and seven inches above the picture frame. So we'll just measure about six to seven inches he'll hold it up I'll take a look at it and then say yes or no right about that height. So while he is getting all of that set up I'm kind of playing around a little bit with adding some height to the cabinet by adding some decorative pieces above. I could not figure out if I wanted to add more pictures above or to add pots or other kind of sculptural decorative pieces so I actually take this off camera and I play around with it a lot before I figure out exactly what I want to do. I first use what I already have and I think that I'm liking putting pots up there opposed to pictures because I will have the pictures on the side. But you guys let me know in the comments what you think. I do have the picture set up pretty close to the cabinet and the reason for this is because the pantry door I do not want it to swing open and knock the light down so that's why I have them a little closer together. All right so here's what it looks like so far. The next thing I need to do is get some pictures in here and I was going through my favorite magazine and I became obsessed with these plants. I did not realize that if you have an iPhone you can take a picture of a plant and it'll tell you exactly what kind of plant it is. So our house doesn't sell these plants it was just like a background decoration. So it our app well one of my friends actually did this for me said that it was a yucca plant and Chris ended up going to Lowe's and was like here's your yucca plants do you want these? He took a picture of them and he sent them to me and I'm like yes I want these. It doesn't have the cool swirly tree trunk design. I have no idea where they got these in that picture. If you know then leave me a comment let me know if you have ever seen those plants before that has the cool swirly trunk. But anyway these are real plants. I know that I have a fake olive tree in my living room that I love. It's 10 feet tall but I get comments that are like I can't believe you have a fake plant in your house and I'm like well I don't have a 10 foot tree in my house. I don't think I'd be able to keep it alive but these are real plants and I am going to put them in these pots. I need to get different pots. I need to raise them up and get different pots but for now just note that those are going to go in there and I need to adjust them. My goal is to add more real plants in our house and that's also something that is always trending is house plants. It never goes out of style and they look super cool. Next I headed over to Walgreens and I'm going to fill in some pictures. Now I purposely for our Christmas photos I purposely dressed us all in like a sage green color to go with the theme of our house so that I could hang these pictures and they would match our green decor. So a couple of weeks ago I took a class on Skillshare about styling your home and the difference between styling your home opposed to decorating your home is that or at least what she said was that decorating is more about functionality whereas styling is more about feeling and the way that the space makes you feel. She said that the space should tell a story about you or whatever story you want it to tell. So when decorating this space I wanted it to be full of like little intricate items that really told a story about our family. So when styling the bookshelf which bookshelves can be so hard I mean some people make it look so easy but it's like I don't know what groups together that makes it look good together. So whenever I was picking out things I'll show you guys in a minute what I went shopping for and what I got. I thought about it a bit differently. I just thought about it as far as when I looked at this item how did it make me feel and does it really go with my earthy theme of the home. So now I have both of the pictures hung. I have our family photos in them. I have the picture lights hung and charged and lit up and I think that it turned out really good. Let me know what you guys think in the comments. I also headed over to HomeGoods and I found a set of these three picture frames. I wasn't one of them was broke so I asked if they had a different one. They didn't have a different one so she marked it down for me. So I got all three of those picture frames and I was actually going to hang these in the kitchen cabinets but instead I think that I might use them in the actual bookshelf. I don't see people put like a bunch of flat frames in their bookshelf so we'll see how this looks. sounds coming up like the day before you're like a stone on my pillow don't make a sound when i shut the door enough to wake up yeah we can spend all day with the tv in the room we'll order in a bunch of food i'll put your favorite music on all the way eat one single thing you don't know how much i want you just looking at you makes my whole world spin all right so i have the whole cabinet cleaned out i made a couple of trips to the store and i'm going to show you guys what i'm going to use to fill the cabinets so first obviously are the picture frames that i just got and filled with the kids photos and i'm going to use a couple of books that i got on amazon i've had these and they're basically just blank books i like that they have paper in them in case i ever want to use them later on as a journal i also have been seeing a lot like bowls i actually got this at cole's it reminds me of like a shape of a flower and i also got the idea to fill it up with a bunch of different rocks so i got these rocks at hobby lobby and i will use that to fill it up i got this cool seashell sculpture like object at one of our local garden stores and along with that i also got this air plant so this is a real plant that is just grows in the air i have to figure out how to um take care of it next at home goods i loved like emerald green anything earthy and green anything stone like are items that i'm going for uh this item is from hobby lobby i mean the owl is from hobby lobby i thought he was super cute owls represent wisdom so i just wanted to kind of bring that in and this beautiful decorative bowl i love the flowery shape of it again i'm going for short objects that i can use uh taller objects i can use and anything that has any type of cool sculpture like so i went for a lot of stone items as well as like marbly items and anything that that felt earthy to me these like little chain things i had those in my old house so i just pulled them out of um my my this dash i already had this is one of my other air plants um again i think you just scored it with water but i'm gonna have to figure out or if you know how to take care of air plants then leave me a comment let me know what you do do you put them in water or do you just squirt them with water and then this container here is from home goods it was taller so it gave me some hype and it had like a marble texture so i really liked that because my cabinet is also black i noticed that i needed a bit of some lighter objects to go in the cabinet so that you can easily see them next i am adding to that wood kind of earthy theme with a smaller picture frame i have this really pretty earthy crystal and then i'm going to use these books that i got from hobby lobby to either stack things on top in case i do need to create some more height or i can have them upright which also gives it some hype and then the last thing that i bought were these cute frames that just have pictures of greenery like i keep saying i'm adding more plants more earth tones because we just have this beautiful view outside that is all green i whenever we moved into this house i just wanted to bring all of that inside so it's almost like you're not leaving the outdoors these pots and these stems those i already had but that pot is from home goods the stem was from hobby lobby and i'm just going to incorporate a couple little items i already had in here so lots of pots lots of plants some architectural items some books and then anything that just caught my eye so the first thing we're going to do is decorate the top here and then i'll work my way into the cabinets if you like pots like i do don't forget to look at your local garden store because they have some really cool pots i assume they would have some really cool pots like i got this one at our local garden store so it's like unique different and they also can be pretty affordable than if you're trying to find like a more decorative pot so just something to remember but let's get started styling this cabinet because i've been running around in circles screaming out your name take me to a different place just the two of us and we can stay up all night kissing under street lights doing what we want to do what we need to do staying up all night everything is all right i want to be with you i want to be with you let me be that someone who can hold your hand so it's a little hard to see with the glare and i was a little hesitant because this the top shelf is the only shelf that would fit these picture frames the other bottom shelves are a bit shorter so but i think that it looks good because it all kind of ties in together i didn't think i'd make it without you by my side let me feel your love again just the two of us and we could stay up all night kissing under street lights doing what we want to do what we need to do staying up all night everything is all right oh i want to be with you i want to be with you let me be that someone who can hold your hand so my key here is to make sure that everything is not like all stacked on to one another so from the first shelf to the next shelf i have the items a bit staggered so they don't look like they're all on top of each other and i also have different heights so if i have something that is a bit taller the next to it i'm going to do have something that is a little bit less tall now whenever i was taking the styling class one of the things she addressed was what are some of the things that you should be splurging on and what are some of the items that you should save money on she said that a lot of people think that oh because you use your couch the most then you should really be splurging on that but she said that's not really true that that shouldn't be the case unless you want to so i kind of agree with her on that but what she recommended was you should be splurging on items that will really be a conversational piece and this could be different for everyone so for some people who are really into like extravagant artwork it could be a piece of artwork that is people are going to walk in and be like really start up a conversation so i did think that was a good piece of advice but now i'm going to add some of these rocks into this bowl just to make it a little bit more unique than just having like a bunch of empty bowls around so i think that i love the way that this shelf turned out it feels like i can use it for every season and it definitely is the look that i was going for you know me better than anyone that's how i know this is forever regrets so the next empty space that i need to work on is filling in all of these empty glass cabinets on our kitchen once i took all of the christmas decor down i really had nothing to replace it with so on my home goods and hobby lobby trip trip i picked up a couple items again to go with my earthy theme so anything that looks kind of stone distressed if there's greens in it pots and pictures and anything that i could just work with all of the pots are actually from hobby lobby i wished that they were a little bit taller so i do have to get a couple magazines and raise them up but the picture frame is from home goods and then the horse heads and horse sculptures i had that in my other cabinet but you couldn't see it because it was black on black so i'm going to put it in the kitchen cabinets and i'm just going to see what i come up with anything if i decide not to use well i have some magazines so i can raise up a couple of things this actually came from my dad it was my grandfather's picture so i'm going to have that up there as well but anything i decide not to use i'll just use in my office cabinets which my office video is coming in the next two weeks i just have to finish decorating it and then i will release it so make sure you're subscribed if you're hey i've been dreaming about you every night i see your clearest day it's just something about the way you make me feel because i can't concentrate anytime you're beside me i can barely breathe i've been thinking about you and all the words that i'm gonna say the next time that i see your pretty face because i can't concentrate anytime you're beside me it's what you, it's what you do to me making my skin in circles so just quit my job, stop wasting time spending my days with you it's what you do, it's what you do i can see you in front of me for my inside cabinets i wanted to incorporate some more like smaller house plants in here but because i don't know the season i feel like i can't find a ton of house plants and i haven't really looked to be honest with you but this cool little plant i got from target it was just sitting out and i thought the vase was just super unique so i didn't really mean to put it up here but for now i'm just going to set it up here and see what it looks like but here's the kitchen styled so far thank you guys so much for 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