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8 Ways to Embrace a Growth Mindset in the Home

With a professional e-design plan as reference, making changes as your space needs to evolve becomes a manageable task. For example, when you suddenly need to upgrade the family sofa, you’ll have a reference for style, color, and dimensions right there with you. Your deliverables will serve as a launch-pad and guide for all of your evolving home needs!

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Quiz: Are You Embracing a Growth Mindset in Your Home?

If there’s anything I understand as an interior designer and mother of small children living in an 1890s multifamily fixer upper, it is this: There is no such thing as perfection — only progress. That is, what might best suit the needs within a space can evolve over time, and often, sooner than we think.

I’m not suggesting you overhaul the same space again and again. In fact, with an intentional design plan in place, you shouldn’t have to! Instead, this is an invitation to embrace a growth mindset — the belief in improvement through effort, learning, and adaptability — to how you design, organize, and maintain your home. It’s an invitation to see your spaces as living, breathing entities that can grow and evolve right alongside you.

Are you already embracing a growth mindset in your home? Let’s start with a self check-in!

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