How to design a home — from a designer 🏠
7.14.2025 | The Daily Good Archive
🎶 LISTEN
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📖 READ
I’ve worked on over 400 homes, giving me a breadth and depth of perspective on what makes a home feel like a home. It boils down to this: Loving your home has more to do with new eyes than new things.
What I Learned About Interior Design From Staging Homes →
🛋️ BROWSE
Sectional couches are modular sofa pieces that are bigger than loveseats or individual chairs; they’re perfect for lounging, entertaining, or just laying out across with a good book (guilty.) But these larger couches are sizable investments (ha!) and ones you’ll be using for years to come, which is why we’re bringing you the most sustainable sectional couches that live up to our standards.
Browse Sustainable Modular Sectional Sofas →
🍗 MAKE
This low-carb, paleo, and Whole30 compatible chicken dish can be served any night of the week, and it's perfect for the slow cooker or the Instant Pot!
Make Creamy Lemon Dill Chicken→
💡 Home improvement: We did a deep dive on how to improve the poorly lit rooms in our homes.
🎨 A cute collab: Benjamin Moore gave every state a specific paint color and called it The United States of Paint!
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📝 A good question: We've heard your favorite thrift finds — but what about curbside finds? Hit reply and let us know your favorite free piece of furniture or decor that you've ever picked up.
👩💻 EDITOR’S PICK
“One of my favorite thrift shopping tips is to know your store of choice’s schedule! For example, my go-to local spot informed me that the ideal days to shop is the first Thursday of the month because this is when they have the most new inventory and when they change their on-sale color. Whenever we need anything, I now try to prioritize going on the first Thursday, which not only gives me the best changes of finding what I want, but also takes the decision fatigue out of the equation!”
💛 READER LOVE
A reader's favorite thrift find:
"One of my favorite thrift finds was an amazing like-new rattan style dresser for $50. This dresser didn’t have a single mark or scuff on it! I swapped out the knobs to give it a slightly updated feel. I’ve had it for 2 years now and it’s still in perfect condition, and we’re now going to use it in my baby boy’s nursery when he arrives next month 🥹"
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