Decorating and Your Personality Style

This is Day 2 of the series “31 Ways to Make Home Uniquely You”.  If you missed Day 1, you can find it here.  Also, our $159 kitchen makeover is a “contestant” for a Grand Prize at One Project Closer.  If you’d like to go over and click a “vote” for it, you can do so here.   Now…on to today’s post!:)

 

Years ago, I had the privilege of going to a decor workshop hosted by Jane Lockhart from the TV show Colour Confidential.

 

The evening didn’t disappoint in any way.  I laughed and learned and was inspired to go home and do something!!

I’m sure I took notes that night, but I have absolutely no idea where they now reside.  Thankfully, some things are still clear in my memory bank.  (Amazing, I know!)

Jane did a funny little personality test.  After asking us a few questions to determine our personality type, she illustrated how our personalities affected our decorating tendencies.

Unfortunately, I only remember these two:

1.  The Indecisive Decorator:

• Spends hours and hours/ days and days/ years and years comparing, observing, and agonizing over every detail and decision involving home decor.
• The fear of making the “wrong” decision paralyzes her from making any decisions at all.
• As a result, her home remains constantly unchanged and the same.  {And she’s probably not very satisfied with it that way.}

2.  The Impulsive Decorator:

• Has projects constantly on the go.
• In fact, while she is in the middle of painting her bathroom yellow, she is suddenly struck with an idea of how to make her kitchen look even better!
• The spark of sudden inspiration for the kitchen project causes her to drop her entire project in the bathroom and start frantically working on the “new idea”.
• As a result, half-done projects surround her… {And she’s probably not very satisfied with it that way.}

The reason I remember those two decor personalities is that I was in a vicious cycle of going between the two.

                                                              {Our kitchen when we moved in…}

I would get so tired of being indecisive that I would  impulsively make a decision.  The impulsive decision would sometimes turn out to be not as I had hoped…So, I swung back to indecisive again.

{The kitchen in its Dill Pickle Green stage…}

I needed to get my groove on.  Somehow I needed to meld indecisive and impulsive together and get my decision making capabilities under control.

{The Kitchen now…and I finally love it!}

But how??…

{Come back tomorrow to hear how one day changed my decorating life forever…}