BLOG LOVE: Love Your Space
Image credit: David Peterson
Heather Peterson spent two decades living on the East Coast before moving back to Minneapolis and into what she calls her “forever home.” The return to her native state has led her to spend more time decorating – and blogging.
Peterson’s blog – Love Your Space – developed while she looked for a job in the arts in Minneapolis. She was constantly telling stories through images, she said, and began to channel some of that creativity into interior design and decorating.
The blog now showcases her crafty spirit and includes design ideas, before-and-after photos, resource tips and decorating basics for people looking for inspiration.
Some of her other favorite blogs are from her regular series, ‘two ways’, in which she takes one design element, like quilts or zebra ottomans, and creates rooms around them in two different styles, and ‘reader design dilemmas’, which is, well, self-explanatory.
The blog also displays Peterson’s budget-conscious style. Peterson does all of the sewing, framing and painting herself, and relies heavily on the community’s economical decorating sources.
Marie’s Vintage Modern and Golden Age Design, both of which operate through Facebook and pop-up sales, vintage shops, outlets and thrift stores serve provide the bulk of her material.
The result is a style she describes as “magpie eclectic on a traditional backbone.”
“I’m drawn to clean, classic shapes and shiny, patterned, fanciful, funky, detailed embellishments,” said Peterson, who tackled her first redecorating project at 11-years-old.
Peterson’s blog and style are attracting more than just readers.
Without officially advertising her services, she has been invited to work on redecorating projects for others. A two-day makeover of a master bedroom that she completed on a $400 budget is her favorite blog post, she said.
Peterson said she hopes her blog will continue to serve as a resource for people needing design ideas, tutorials or local resources, and that she will answer any questions sent her way.
She is not timid about dispensing advice, she said, because she would like to encourage people to tell their stories, love their spaces and design for themselves.
Her best piece, of advice, Peterson said, is to simply be bold.
“Most importantly, believe you can do it,” she said. “Chutzpah is half the battle,”
It makes you wonder: do you love your space?
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