How To Personalize Your Home The Right Way

Buying a new home is a big deal. Whether you're buying your first home or moving to a different home in a new community, you want to put your personal stamp on the home. It's important to get rid of the previous owner's touches and make updates that reflect your personal design tastes and lifestyle. Take a look at 10 simple changes you can make to personalize your new home.

Paint the Front Door

Your home's exterior should create an inviting entrance that welcomes guests to your new home. Perhaps you can't afford to repaint the entire house, but you can give your front door a fresh new paint color and shiny new hardware that showcases your personal design style.

Put Up Coat Hooks

Adding a coat tree or coat hooks to your entry is a great way to personalize and organize your home. Instead of scattered coats, hats, umbrellas, and rain boots, everything will be right at your front door when you need to run an errand or take the kids to school.

Make a Place for Keys

If you're like most people, you've likely misplaced your house and car keys on occasion. By creating a special place for your keys, you will always know where they are. Hang a row of decorative wall hooks or place a decorative tray or bowl on a console table near the front door.

Roll Out a New Rug

Rolling out a beautiful new rug in the entry, living room, dining room, or bedroom will quickly personalize your home. Whether you prefer neutrals, soft patterns and textures, or bold, bright colors, an area rug will show off your personal design style and add focal elements to your room. 

Install a New Chandelier

When you move into a new home, you're likely to find light fixtures that reflect the previous owner's taste and style. To reflect your own personal style, take down the old ceiling fixtures or chandeliers and replace them with updated fixtures that compliment your furnishings and color scheme.

Change the Kitchen Faucet

Replacing the kitchen faucet is a simple, affordable way to upgrade personal style and convenient features. With so many different faucet styles, finishes, and prices to choose from, it's easy to give your kitchen an updated new look, even when you're on a tight budget.

Upgrade Window Treatments

Depending on how long the previous owners lived in the house, the window treatments may look a little dingy and outdated. Making upgrades with new window shades, draperies, or shutters will instantly give your home fresh design appeal. Whether you choose ready-made or custom window treatments, your home will have a brand new look.

Wallpaper the Bathroom

A colorful or pattern statement wallpaper in the powder room or bathroom will quickly put your personal stamp on your new home. A powder room is a great place to experiment with bold patterns and colors. If you're wallpapering a bathroom, make sure the paper you choose will withstand water and moisture.

Display Personal Photos

Displaying collections of personal family photos is an easy way to make a new place feel like home. Choose some of your favorite photos, buy matching frames, and create a display on a special wall down the hallway or on shelves or bookcases in the living room, family room, or bedroom.

Add Special Outdoor Features

Special outdoor features will increase your time outdoors for family gatherings, special events, and outdoor activities. Think about all the possibilities with a cozy porch swing, relaxing hammock, warm fire pit, an outdoor grill, and an alfresco dining table for candlelight dinners.

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