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Decorating Guides for Every Stage of Your Home Journey
Whether you’re furnishing your first home or beginning a new chapter, these home decorating tips will help you plan each room before making your first purchase.
Decorating Guides
Decorating guidance for every stage of your home
Whether you’re furnishing a new home, refreshing one room or putting the finishing touches on a space you already love, decorating brings a lot of decisions.
Our Decorating Guides help you answer the questions that come up along the way, so you can make confident choices and keep moving toward a room that feels designer-inspired.
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Furnishing a New Home
Thoughtful guidance for turning a new or empty home into a comfortable, beautifully coordinated space.
How to Furnish a New Home Without Feeling Overwhelmed
Learn how to prioritize rooms, create a practical furnishing plan and make confident decisions without feeling pressured to finish your entire home all at once.
Read the GuideWhat Should You Buy Before Moving Into a New Home?
Discover which purchases are truly worth making before moving day, what can wait and how to avoid expensive decorating decisions made too soon.
Read the GuideHow to Decorate Your Home Over Time Without It Feeling Incomplete
Create a home that feels calm and intentional while decorating in stages, using a thoughtful plan instead of rushing to fill every room.
Read the GuideWhen You’re Ready to See What Works Together
Start with a room that’s already coordinated.
Room Recipes bring the furniture, lighting and décor together for you. Recreate the complete room or choose only the pieces you love.
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Plan Your Rooms
Planning Your Rooms
Practical guidance for choosing furniture, planning layouts and making sure your room works as well as it looks.
Which Room Should You Furnish First?
Learn the smartest order for furnishing your home so each decision supports the next and your budget goes further without sacrificing comfort or style.
Read the GuideHow to Decorate an Open Floor Plan That Feels Cohesive
Create distinct living areas while maintaining visual flow with practical strategies for furniture placement, color, lighting and balanced room-to-room transitions.
Read the GuideHow to Choose Furniture That Is the Right Scale
Avoid furniture that feels too large or too small by learning how proportion, visual weight and room measurements work together.
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Creating a Designer Look
Simple decorating principles that help your rooms feel more polished, intentional and personal.
How to Create a Cohesive Home
Discover how designers create homes that feel connected from room to room through consistent color, materials, scale and carefully repeated design details.
Read the GuideHow to Make a Builder-Grade Home Look Custom
Transform a standard builder home into a more distinctive space using thoughtful upgrades, better proportions and design details that create lasting character.
Read the GuideHow to Layer Texture Like a Designer
Learn how to combine fabrics, wood, metal, stone and natural materials to create rooms that feel warm, sophisticated and visually rich without unnecessary clutter.
Read the GuideRooms to Inspire Your Next Step
Explore our Room Recipes.
See complete rooms where the furniture, lighting and décor are already coordinated for you.
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Budget & Shopping
Helpful guidance for setting priorities, spending wisely and making confident buying decisions.
How Much Does It Cost to Furnish a New Home?
Understand the major costs of furnishing a new home and learn how to create a realistic budget that supports both your priorities and long-term vision.
Read the GuideHow to Mix Retailers Without Making a Room Feel Mismatched
Learn how to combine furniture and décor from different retailers while creating a room that feels collected, cohesive and professionally designed.
Read the GuideHow to Spend More Where It Matters and Less Where It Does Not
Discover where investing makes the biggest difference, where you can confidently save and how to create a luxury look at any budget.
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Found a Room You Love?
Make it work for yours.
The Companion, our guided planning tool, helps you confidently bring your Room Recipe to life in your own room.
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Outdoor Living
Thoughtful ideas for creating comfortable, inviting outdoor spaces that feel like a natural extension of your home.
How to Make Your Lanai Feel Like a Resort
Turn your lanai into a relaxing outdoor retreat with better furniture layouts, layered textures, thoughtful lighting and designer-inspired finishing touches.
Read the GuideHow to Choose Outdoor Furniture That Lasts
Compare outdoor furniture materials, construction and performance so you can choose pieces that stay beautiful through years of everyday use and changing weather.
Read the GuideHow to Light an Outdoor Living Space
Create a warm, inviting outdoor atmosphere with layered lighting that improves comfort, highlights your landscape and extends the enjoyment of your outdoor spaces.
Read the GuideYou don’t need to have every answer before you begin.
Start with the question in front of you. Use the guides when you need them, explore Room Recipes when you’re ready to see complete rooms, and use The Companion when you’re ready to bring one to life.
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