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Welcome Home: A Cozy Minimalist Guide to Decorating and Hosting All Year Round, is here!
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Academy of Home
Create the home you've always wanted.
Use it the way you've always dreamed.
Three Steps to Creating a Cozy Home
Welcome Imperfections
Decorate with More Style, Less Stuff
Create a Seasonal, Host-able Home
There is beauty in the midst of imperfect circumstances.
Step 1 : Welcome Imperfections
No matter your housing situation, you can create a personal, meaningful and beautiful home once you decide perfection isn't the goal.
Need encouragement in this step? You'll love The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to be Perfect to Be Beautiful
Read the book
Step 2: Decorate with More Style, Less Stuff
Discover how to start with what you have and create a home you're proud of in a way that honors your priorities, budget and personal style.
Learn how to make great decorating decisions for every room in the right order.
You'll love the Wall Street Journal Bestselling book: Cozy Minimalist Home. You can read it at your own pace and apply as you go.
Or maybe, you'd prefer a more hands-on approach where you can get input and share photos of your progress. You'll love our private community that opens to new members three time a year.
Read the book Join the community
Step 3: Create a Seasonal, Hostable Home
Once your home is feeling Cozy and Minimalized, you'll be extra excited about having a seasonal home.
A home that's ready for the seasons is automatically ready to host all sorts of seasonal celebrations. Be the one who volunteers her home to host because you're finally confident and ready.
Read the new Welcome Home book Take the Seasonal Classes
Field Trip!
You're Invited: To Our Home
The internet is amazing but we're all about real life hospitality. You're invited to our home in Midland, NC (20 miles east of Charlotte).
We've got a few types of events for you to choose from.
Weekend Workshops The Nest Fest MANTIME (for the fellas)
We Believe
Home exists to serve people, not the other way around.
There is beauty in mismatched sheets and half made beds.
The size of your house doesn't dictate the size of your hospitality.
Home should be the safest place on earth to take a risk.
It's a sacred calling to be watchful about what comes into our home and purposeful about what goes out.
Unique style always trumps trends.
An uncomplicated home is a blessing to everyone who enters it.
Home is an ever shifting combination of grace, cozy, abundance, simplicity, form and function.
When your home is ready for the seasons, it's automatically ready for the holidays within each season.
Cozy doesn't have to mean cluttered and minimal doesn't have to mean cold.
It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.
