When you imagine changing a room, what are you really hoping will change?

Perhaps it’s more than the furniture, colours, or finishing touches. It’s the feeling of being calmer at home. Cooking with more enjoyment. Having friends around the table. Making time for the things you keep putting off.

In this episode of Your Home by Design, Nico explores the motivation beneath our interior design choices: the lifestyle we imagine a beautiful home will give us—and how design and everyday habits can help us experience it.

Through a personal story and practical examples, you’ll discover how to:

• Identify the outcome you’re actually craving from a room.
• Choose habits that reflect your values and deserve your time.
• Make gathering spaces more comfortable through furniture scale, layout, and acoustics.
• Improve kitchen workflow so cooking feels easier to begin.
• Create space for creative practice, including the unfinished work.
• Evaluate a room by how it supports your life, alongside how it looks.

Leave with one meaningful outcome, one habit to support it, and one design change to try this week.

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