Make Your House More Climate Change Resistant
One of the best ways you can protect one of life’s most significant investments is to make your house more climate change resistant. From superstorms to droughts and wildfires, it’s essential to prepare your home no matter where you live.
How To Bring Joy To Your Space With Dopamine Design
One of my favorite trends this year is dopamine dressing. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, dopamine dressing is wearing clothes specifically for their ability to lift your mood. Today, I’m going to show you how to bring joy to your space with dopamine design.
Sophisticated Chandeliers for Every Space
A gorgeous dining room chandelier is a fantastic way to elevate your space and dining experience. Lighting often serves as the home's jewelry and, when selected carefully, is also highly functional.
Top Non-Toxic Materials for Your New Build
Whether your home is custom or part of a larger development, I’m sharing my top non-toxic materials for your new build. The materials your builder will use in your home will be there for decades, so you have a unique opportunity to choose high-quality materials right from the start.
3 Favorite Sustainable House Design Features
Exploring sustainable house design features is the natural next step in creating a truly nourishing home. Once you have removed the toxins from your home and aligned your interior space with your vision, incorporating these house design features is a great next step.
Top Tips for Hiring an Interior Designer
Your home is a big investment, and partnering with the right professionals is crucial, so we’re sharing our top tips for hiring an interior designer.
How To Achieve a Sophisticated Decorating Style
Looking to achieve a sophisticated decorating style? At MOTIV, our focus on sustainability, sophistication, and creating a space aligned with your vision allows us to create unique, refined spaces tailored to your desires.
3 Keys To Create A Nourishing Home Through Design
Whether you’re ready to reimagine your home or find a new one, we have our three favorite keys to creating a nourishing home through design.
Eco-Friendly Home Companies in Nashville
Working with an eco-friendly company in Nashville is key to ensuring a sustainable outcome for your next design or build project. And with the climate crisis continuing to escalate, choosing an eco-friendly interior design or system is one of the best things you can do to protect the health of the planet as well as your family.
Organize Your Home for a Sophisticated Design
When trying to achieve a sophisticated design, organizing and decluttering your space is critical. Creating an organized space clear of clutter is proven to reduce stress and reflects Deepak Chopra’s musing, “What we see, we become.” When you are surrounded by physical clutter or chaos, it will always create mental clutter and chaos.
The Five Elements of Feng Shui
Whether you’re new to feng shui or diving deeper into this ancient practice, understanding the five elements of feng shui is critical. When we realize that these five natural elements make up all matter on our planet and are constantly transforming in an infinite cycle, that really puts their importance into perspective.
The Top 5 Sustainable Fabric Fibers For Your Home
Choosing sustainable fabric fibers for your house is one of the best ways to make your home more eco-friendly. Just look around for a moment, and you will begin to notice fabric everywhere.
Decorating with Natural Materials
If you've been wondering how to decorate with natural materials, you’ve come to the right place. We’re diving into nature-inspired interior design and using the 4 major facets of feng shui to guide us on our journey.
The Best Non-Toxic Paint & Wallpaper
Your walls and ceiling make up the largest percentage of surface area in your home, which is one of the reasons it’s important to choose the best non-toxic paint and wallpaper for your home. You’re not only going to SEE these surfaces the most, but you’re going to BREATHE in anything you place on your walls.
How To Use The Bagua Map In Your Home
For anyone interested in the practice of feng shui, understanding how to use the bagua map in your home is key to aligning the energies of fortune and abundance—the constantly flowing life energy that is all around us and within us. Working with feng shui and this energy of abundance is a way to heal and amplify your health, finances, family, relationships, and overall happiness in any aspect of your life on which you choose to focus your energy.
How To Remove The Toxins From Your Home
If you’re looking for advice on how to remove the toxins from your home, you’ve come to the right place. Here at MOTIV Interiors, we believe in creating sophisticated and sustainable homes, and as part of our mission, we love helping people clear their homes of toxins that can cause long-term health effects.
Top 5 Ways To Shift the Energy in Your Home Using Feng Shui
As an interior designer certified in feng shui, I cannot stress the importance of using the principles of feng shui to shift the energy in your home enough. When the energy of your home is harmonious, you will be amazed at the feelings of ease, joy, and peace that you experience.
3 Keys to A Stunning Bathroom Renovation
If you have ever attempted a bathroom remodel, you know it’s no joke. Today we are explaining the three keys to a successful bathroom remodel. Follow these guidelines, and the result will be a bathroom you will love for years to come.
A Sophisticated Cabin Kitchen In The Woods
For our Cabin(ette) project, we created a sophisticated cabin kitchen in the woods, which turned into an incredibly special space. One of the goals in purchasing the property was my long-term commitment to living sustainably. I knew I would have the space to grow a large garden, potentially raise chickens, and truly enjoy a farm-to-table lifestyle.
3 Keys to Colorful Interior Design: How to choose a bold paint color with confidence
If you’ve been admiring or pinning images of colorful interior designs but have felt too nervous about purchasing the can of paint, you’re not alone. Painting a room can feel like a big commitment, but when you understand the language of color, it can be fun and fruitful.