First, let me ask you a question. Are you as addicted to Home & Garden TV as I am? If so, can you believe just how fantastic a resource we have for Room Design & Decorating Ideas? It gives us thousands of dollars worth of up-to-date DIY Home and Garden tips and ideas, which used to be the exclusive tools of Interior Designers. Of course, there is a flip side to all this information – there’s just so much of it that we sometimes end up getting INFORMATION OVERLOAD. So to help us better use it, I decided to make a video [and publish the transcript, which is this article]. 

I’m going to give you 3 very cool Tips that’ll make it easier and more affordable to Design, Decorate & Furnish your home exactly like you want it – the operative words being: “exactly like you want it”. 

Now going back to HGTV for just a minute more. It’s definitely become our “Go To” TV Channel and Website for Home Decorating ideas & Room Design tips, and the good news is that we know it’s just going to get bigger and better each year. But the one thing HGTV can’t do is “personalize” their Decorating & Design advice. Rather, it has to be GENERIC in order to make it useful for all of us. This means that it can be very confusing, and very hard to personalize and make our own.   

So what’s the SOLUTION? 

The Solution is to put YOU front and center of your HOME and Garden Design puzzle. If we can do that, then everything else will fall into place. Believe it or not, you actually have quite a bit of intuitive Design Sense, and I’m going to tell you how you can access it and use it! Ready?  

OK, here are the 3 Ideas that’ll put YOU dead center in your Home & Garden Design Puzzle. These ideas will cost you less than $25 and I PROMISE, they’ll be worth far more than that – they’ll be ideas you can use for a lifetime.  

Idea #1: Take about $5 and go to Barnes & Noble (or someplace like it.) Plan to stay about an hour. Go to the MAGAZINE rack (no books allowed). Look at all the covers in the Lifestyle & Home & Garden sections. The trick is to Stand back and study all the magazines in front of you. Then pick only the covers that draw you to them.   

If I had to guess, you’ll probably pick 10-15 magazines.  

Now get a cup of coffee or tea, and a treat. Find a cozy spot – preferably a table. The goal is NOT to buy the magazines. It’s to fill your heart & mind & your senses with colors, shapes, and new ideas about Home and Garden. Don’t take notes, don’t buy any magazines. Just take it all in. Get more magazines if you have time. But again, only those that draw you, and don’t buy any – although you might do so later. The reason this is so powerful is because you’re inputting this information to be used at a later date. Very important and be sure to do this as your first step. 

IDEA #2: PROFILE your Dream Home. This will only cost $19. You can get your Profile from a program called Dream Home Profile, which I created so you could “Actualize your Dream Home.” What I mean by “actualize” is that the program is designed to generate ON PAPER a personalized and customized LIST of HOME DESIGN ELEMENTS – and the DESIGN ELEMENTS that end up on your paper are the ones that are most important to YOU, which will help make your Home FEEL Like Home. So you’ve heard the expression “DESIGN SENSE” (it’s all about your senses guiding you) Another thing that’s so fantastic about Dream Home Profile is that NO ONE will ever have the same Profile as you.  

Another thing, it’s not like all the other “find your Home Decorating style” surveys you’ve seen before, and it’s not giving you generic Home Decorating Ideas either; instead, you’re getting a list of Design Elements for your Home & Garden that are totally unique to YOU. And on top of that, the reason I promised you that you’ll finally be able to save money is because you’ll know exactly what is (and what isn’t) a priority purchase for your HOME – and you’ll also have the knowledge that will prevent you from making unnecessary purchases.  

(Just so you know - Dream Home Profile is found on under the HOME DESIGN tab).