Sette Design: 7 Ideas To Make Your Home Pretty

1. Open your windows.

This is a very Italian action. Italians love to air out their homes, even in the dead of winter, windows are always opened. The extended light will make your home glow.

2. Cover your couch or a big chair with fresh white linens.

It is amazing how this will lighten up the room. If you don’t have anything big enough you can use a curtain or sheets taped together in the back.

3. Move your art around.

Change your art, even if the pieces that are not hung perfectly for the wall, just switch pieces around. Take some off the walls and lean them up on the floor with a big vase of flowers near by. Create a vignette leaning framed photographs in front of mirrors (this will add depth) also leaning on top of a dresser or credenza. It will feel like you went shopping for new art.

4. Bring someone breakfast in bed.

This will make your home pretty with sleepy smiles.

Hot tea and Vanilla Raisin Brown Bread (Recipe Here)

5. Bring nature inside.

I made this splendid display with wildflowers, river stones and fig branches.

The fig leaves are brilliant green, they make me happy the moment I walk in the room. The yellow wildflowers actually have a crazy metallic sheen to them.

Sette Design -fig leaves, river stones and wildflowers

6. Create something with a little humor or surprise.

Here I hung a jar of flowers attached to a screw with sheer ribbon and wire. A stack of books and a cappuccino are always a slice of heaven.

Sette Design hanging flowers in a jar

7. Make a wreath out of ribbons.

Whatever you have around, you can’t go wrong. If you don’t have wire, you can use an old wire hanger, or just a paper shopping bag rolled up to form the base of the wreath. I did this in about three minutes, really messy. If the rose dries well, later I spay on some clear acrylic.