- Iron your pillowcases. Or go all out and do your whole sheet set - that's a little too much work for me though :)
- Make your bed as soon as you get out of it. Your whole room will look nicer, and it starts your day off productively.
- Always wear at least a little makeup. Unless it's your once-in-a-blue-moon barefaced day. You'll feel better about yourself.
- Always wear real clothes. Unless you are actually, at that moment, doing yoga.
- Use real plates, glasses, cutlery. Use cloth napkins. When I'm really on top of my game, I iron my napkins.
- Eat three meals a day, with very rare snacking. As in, if you are so hungry you can't take it. But for the most part, eat three meals, and let that be all.
- Eat those meals at roughly the same time every day. And make sure they're balanced enough to last you until the next meal.
- Eat sitting down, at the table, with the people you love. NO electronics on at this time (except music playing in the background. We prefer French or Portugese, or Sinatra, something classy dinner party-ish). Use proper table manners and require them of your children - but please don't try to mother your husband! (I'm guilty of this way too often)
- Light candles and/or place essential oil diffusers throughout your home. We have one in baby's room so we can put lavender in it to calm him to sleep; one in the kid/guest bathroom to cut down on unpleasant smells; and three in our open concept living spaces. I use a blend called "peace and quiet" for obvious reasons.
- Adopt a minimal approach to decorating. Now, I don't mean you need to start counting your possessions. But, for example, not every kitchen appliance I own is on the kitchen counter. Very few things are on my surfaces. Most of what is on my walls is highly sentimental (and also happens to be beautiful. Not just random sentimental stuff.). We actually use family heirloom furniture.
Do you have anything to add? How do you elevate the everyday in your own home? Or do you think formality is overrated?
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