Ideas & Inspiration

A new home is a perfect excuse to go all out with new décor, play around with themes, colors, styles, and a chance to add a dash of your personality to every room. You have infinite choices with everything –furniture, decorating style, window and door sizes, floorings, paint, and everything in between that makes your home truly unique.

The big question is, where do you start, and at what point do you hang your designer boots, call it a day, and celebrate with a calming glass of wine? This blog gives you helpful tips on how to decorate your home from scratch.

When you approach your house from the street, what do you see? What is the experience created by the walk to the front door? Some homes are warm and welcoming, with pathways that beckon toward a glowing front door and inviting porch. Some have decorative shutters, some have covered porches, some have steep, rocky front yards, and some a gentle strip of grass. But the one thing all homes with welcoming curb appeal have in common is an inviting front walk crafted with landscaping and lights.

You want to bring in the focus to your home, while also providing an elegant stylistic accent to the home's architecture and landscaping design. Whether your front yard has a porch or patio, steep or gentle, you are sure to find a few methods that will make your front walk more welcoming.

When designing your bathroom renovation, you want to create a space that is both comfortable and uplifting. You want a bathroom that makes you feel positive and charmed in the morning and easily relax into your bedtime routine at night. That's why many people choose the farmhouse style for bathroom renovations. A farmhouse bathroom is charming, efficient, and a little bit rustic: mixing old-fashioned finishes with natural tones that inspire a sense of comfort and tradition that can't help but bring a smile to your face.

But how do you choose the perfect farmhouse features to make your bathroom renovation complete? Here at Fossil Blu, we're passionate about the Farmhouse style, so you know we have a few ideas that you'll love.  

Busy homes often have cluttered pantries. It's a natural side effect of cooking quickly, stocking groceries quickly, and always keeping a little extra supplies in the back of your pantry. In a new house, that pantry clutter is comforting, knowing there are always a few boxes of stuffing or cans of beans for a rainy day. But over time, pantry clutter can start to weigh you down.

Why let that happen when you have warm summer weekends and spare time for home projects? If you're refreshing your home and your mindset for summer, why not refresh your pantry?

Right now, the housing market has never been so hot. Homes are being snapped off the market almost instantly, when bidding wars don't slow down the process. This is a great time to currently be a homeowner, outside the market chaos. Of course, if you've been dreaming of a change in scenery, your best option is to invest in changes to your house. Kitchen renovations, in particular, can transform your experience of the home and have great potential for return on investment (ROI) - if you know what you're planning for.

Let's dive into a few kitchen renovation ideas to invest in your happiness and the long-term value of your home.

With the weather warming up, many people are headed back out to the garden to nurture life from the soil. Whether you are a whiz with seasonal blossoms or manage a delicious home vegetable garden, there are definitely a few home features that can enhance your gardening ability. Preexisting flowerbeds, a patio made for planters, nice areas of rotating sunlight and a very deep sink all make a difference.

At Fossil Blu, we believe a deep Farmhouse sink can enhance your gardening capabilities. Many people build themselves a deep-basin sink outdoors--or in their potting shed-- to make gardening easier on the go. This also keeps the potting mess outside of the house.