Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
PHILIPPIANS 4:8
You are invited to experience the peace and joy that come from a well-balanced life that nurtures your home and soul throughout the year.
You might think that you need to make big changes to create a better life but it’s often the small, intentional, everyday decisions that shape our environment over time and bring sustained contentment and well-being. Savor the process.
Beautifully designed and photographed, A Lovely Life offers you tangible ways to make every day a better one.
Spring
experience renewal as you clean up and reimagine your spaces and learn to enjoy everything that the outdoors has to offer.
SUMMER
enjoy refreshment with a summer staycation, self-care nourishments, and the delight of simple pleasures.
AUTUMN
make room for reconnection when you decorate to reflect your family, style, and story; embrace gratitude, and adopt seasonal rhythms for body, mind, and soul.
WINTER
enter a season of rest as you establish morning and evening rituals, winterize your bedroom, and indulgein restorative home spa treatments.
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A Lovely Life
When you order A Lovely Life before May 17, 2022, you’ll receive free downloadable extras, including a helpful seasonal planning guide and beautiful floral prints to help you savor every season. Preorder your copy and then return to this page to fill out the form below and receive an email with your free gifts.
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Melissa shows you how to make small, simple changes to strengthen the connection between your home and body—your two dwellings—so you can live a healthier life filled with greater wholeness and happiness.
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Melissa helps you fall in love with the home you have. Step inside her home as she shares inspiring photos, real-life decor solutions, and room-by-room ideas to showcase your personal style.
Love the Home You Have
Fall in love with your home! With warmth and candor Melissa shares easy and affordable ideas to help you reveal beauty in the ordinary, entertain possibilities and people with joy, discover your style, and leap from dreamer to doer with confidence.
Make Room for What You Love
In these pages you will find a friend who empathizes with you and offers insightful ideas for altering your habits while efficiently decluttering and organizing your home so that you can really enjoy living there.
Simple Organizing
Melissa shares 50 inspired ideas to help you create and maintain a system of organization within your home that will help you focus on keeping the things that matter most to your family and removing the clutter that doesn’t.
Simple Decorating
If you want to jump-start your style and refresh your home without needing power tools and a winning lottery ticket, make Simple Decorating your go-to resource for can-do decor. It’s never been more fun (or possible) to create a home you can’t wait to come home to.
Simple Gatherings
Host get-togethers you and your guests will enjoy with these 50 affordable and inspired ideas from Melissa. Get more than 300 tips on everything from party prepping to creating fun activities that inspire connection.
But Where Do I Put the Couch
Melissa Michaels and KariAnne Wood (Thistlewood Farms) team up to solve their readers 101 most difficult decorating dilemmas. These are actual questions from everyday people like you. Learn decorating basics and beyond.
Melissa Michaels
is the creator of The Inspired Room, voted the 2015 and 2014 Better Homes and Gardens Readers’ Favorite Decorating Blog. With creative, simple ideas for decorating and organizing the home, she inspires more than half a million women each month. Melissa is also the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Love the Home You Have, Dwelling, and The Inspired Room coffee table book. She and her husband live in Washington.
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