Her mother walked by the open door and saw her doing it again.  Pushing heavy furniture with the soles of her feet, sitting in her closet organizing shoes by style, repositioning her bed to the other side of the room, she reconfigured her bedroom annually.  

Home tells a story of how your life’s worlds weave together memories, curiosities, passions, and aspirations into a space that holds peace for you each day.  We create these spaces with intentionality and meaning to build a life that evokes emotions, comfort, and inspiration.  Our home design provides a sanctuary of comfort that anchors us enough to feel confident taking risks and pursuing opportunities outside their walls.  

Slow design emphasizes the process of design for living over the products and final outcome of interior design.  By creating a home with meaning and function, you are more likely to build stronger bonds with the people you share the home with and enjoy higher levels of positivity and productivity.  

Read through the 7 reasons why to slow design your home and share with us how your home brings you joy in the comments below.

1. Sustainability- We live with the mindfulness that our actions in consumption affect generations that have not even been born yet so sustainable design benefits more than just our homes. 

When we design with items that can be repurposed, refurbished, and reupholstered, our carbon footprint decreases.  This doesn’t mean you can’t buy new pieces of furniture; slow design encourages you to take time in purchasing quality items that will last a lifetime.  

2. Integration of heirloom pieces- There is a special connection to a piece of home decor that comes with a story of family.  Honor your heritage and history with pieces that represent more than design and style by integrating pieces that you grew up with or inherited from other family members.  

Heirloom pieces represent the life of loved ones from multiple generations.  Speak openly about the meaning of these unique pieces to ensure they are cared for and kept in the family.  

3. Time to collect art- There are places and times that coordinate with each other to give once in a lifetime discoveries of art.  Whether it is online, during vacation, or locally sourced, art work is very personal and design cannot be impatient when finding authentic art.  

As a visual representation of your soul, art pieces almost find you.  Social media, and its algorithms, present connections to artists all over the world who create and share original and print works.  Invest in pieces that you feel deeply bonded with and support living artists simultaneously.   

4. Design without compromise- If you compromise, you will live with discomfort and dissatisfaction.  You will waste money on things you tire of quickly and throw away.  You will feel unsettled in a space that is meant to give you sanctuary. Give yourself grace and release yourself from feeling pressured to present a finished product.

Slow design reminds us that patience leads to long term satisfaction and we can give ourselves full permission to return a couch if the fabric is not the right color or have a table built by a local woodworker for the perfect dimensions.  

5. Feel the function- You have to live in your house for a while to fully understand how you live in your house.  To recognize the function of each space and design around the nuances of daily tasks and behaviors, slow design makes us live in the room to thoroughly learn how the space is going to flow and be used.  We design to emphasize the life that exists within the space, not to dictate.   

6. Avoid trends-  It is so easy to fall into eagerness and want to fill your home immediately after moving in.  We want to feel settled, we want to look presentable, and we want to stop stressing about “unfinished” rooms, but rushing to purchase furniture sets and in stock items runs the risk of later disliking your pieces.  We want to invest in timeless pieces that are quality and generational; finding the perfect item takes time.

7. Create efficient rooms- Much like the idea of feeling the function of the room, creating efficient rooms takes design to a deeper level of thinking sustainably.  When designing a space slowly, we can pay attention to how often rooms are used or left vacant to design with temperature efficiency.  We can be aware of how natural light filters through rooms over seasons to design window settings.  Our environmental impact extends to all spaces; be conscious and slow design. 

Home tells a story of how your life’s worlds weave together memories, curiosities, passions, and aspirations into a space that holds peace for you each day.  We create these spaces with intentionality and meaning to build a life that evokes emotions, comfort, and inspiration. 

Our home design provides a sanctuary of comfort that anchors us enough to feel confident taking risks and pursuing opportunities outside their walls, so take your time through the years to collect and preserve your special spaces.   

Leoluna loves you~