home decor you do not need.......... 

Please do a video on how to style common surfaces in your house!

There is a hint in the name "coffee" table - there is meant to be room to put down your cup, glass, book, or whatever you are holding. So much furniture seems to have lost its functional purpose only to be seen as a surface for "decor" ( a term I cannot bear). If the furniture is both purposeful and pleasing to your personal taste, accumulated over time rather than purchased in a mass grab at a store, it is actually hard to have too much stuff and hard for the space not to reflect its occupants and not a catalogue. And if any decorative or ornamental pieces are meaningful gifts, or deeply-loved finds and purchases, the whole experience of a room becomes an extension of getting to know the person living there. I am with you on leaving a space or going without until we find something that we know we will keep for a long time and truly appreciate.

Okay YES, the idea of a video about styling all the surfaces in your house is genius!! Please do that 💛

Your squatty potty was cool and well made. You spent time and money making it; it would have looked awesome outside as a plant stand. Sturdy, and wouldn’t blow over. Always try to repurpose before throwing in the trash!

I just got a cool coffee table at the thrift store this weekend for €12,50 and I just came here to share the interior design high I got from it with all of you in the comments 🤝

Paige, I am begging you for a video of how to create a home office. I have a spare bedroom in my home but I refuse to dedicate an entire room to a home office. How can I create a guest room / home office that’s not so pinteresty. Sincerely someone who has been working from their kitchen table since 2020😂

Don’t get rid of the dining table if you have a family or if you like entertaining. Turn it into a multi use study/dining/craft space. Add bookshelves, a reading corner and craft storage. Side note: Absolutely love the idea 💡 of a video about how to style a reading nook, dresser, console, etc.

i think its so bizarre when families dont use dining rooms. my family ate dinner at the dining table every night (even if we got take out!). kitchen was more for lunch or breakfast alone.

Paige I love your store and your look. Buuuut I hate the format of your website I wish you could see if an item is sold out before you click on it 😢

Yeah, the blanket crawling out of a basket in the living room - why? I keep trying to tell people this - decorate your home with shit you want to look at, and not 'decor items'. Those items are sterile and have zero personality. I love that i can look at my wall unit of shelves and every has a story. It's appealing, reflects me, and makes me happy. Thanks for Sundays With Paige!

My personalized coffee table currently has two matchbox cars, my son’s water bottle and hat, my husbands inhaler, and a remote. It’s called ✨ decor ✨ 😂

Tldr: rob your grandma

My husband and I always bring posters from our travels (all kinds of posters and art). It's our thing and that's what we use to decorate our house!!! There is always a story behind it, so that's a +

I think whether or not you keep your dining table truly depends on how much you use it. We have an apartment with a small not open concept kitchen. No island, no kitchen table. Because it’s an apartment we don’t have a dining room either. Our living room comes with an area just begging for a big table so we put one there. We use it CONSTANTLY. We work at it, we feed friends meals at it, we use it as extra dinner prep space, we often eat lunch at it, we have our monthly budget talk at it. I do large art projects at it if my guest room folding table isn’t big enough. If we had a kitchen table it’d be unnecessary but we don’t, and we need and like having a big table space.

A million books covering a coffee table isn't very practical because I like to put my feet on my coffee table like an ottoman, so I keep decor to a minimum. I bought a big basket for blankets, but my dog immediately made it his dog bed and then we got another dog and the two of them fought over it, so now we have two big baskets of old blankets exclusively for our dogs and honestly, it's a great design solution if you have small pets haha.

You’re definitely going to save some lives with the “how to decorate your surfaces” video! Please show how to decorate a console as well please 🙏

💯 on the mass produced art. But, I do have posters of art I’ve enjoyed seeing at museums I’ve visited, I guess that’s mass produced, but it’s not usually the prints/posters of the most popular ones, that get printed and sold everywhere on everything.

I’m so confused by coffee table styling, like don’t people use their coffee tables for putting their coffee down ? And to eat and live….

I don’t have an eat in kitchen, but my dining room attaches, so I’m keeping my dining table and hutch. PS I bought it at a yard sale from a couple that was downsizing and it is solid rock maple. Beautiful. Thrifted and has a funny story about the sale. It’s a keeper. That said I have some kitchen and linen things I could get rid of. I am phasing out the mass produced decor, and it’s so much better. Thanks, Paige.

My mom is an artist and she goes to Home Goods to buy canvas art just so she can paint over the crappy art. She said it's cheaper than buying a fresh canvas.

I would love a video on how to style a coffee table, credenza, vanity, etc.!

OMG I feel attacked calling out the useless kitchen stuff - namely water bottles branded with every random company I've ever interacted with in some way....😁

I’m enjoying removing stuff currently pre moving house. Selling via FBM as well as donating heaps to charity. I’m happy for those excited when buying my furniture to continue to use. As empty nesters, my partner and I are downsizing to a smaller house. I continue to take note of your suggestions each video Paige 😊

I LOVEEEE the idea of a video on how to style a surface. Recently I’m having brain fog and struggling to style my dresser. Maybe we can submit our spaces and you suggest on what to add next remove etc :))

I also hate formal dining rooms. An entire room people have just because they think they are supposed to have one (and the dining table always just gets covered in junk mail...). You should do a whole video about getting rid of the dining room 😁

I agree on all of these however I am guilty of having a few. The blanket basket (none are poking out, and they are lightning McQueen blankets) and the homegoods art. Upgrading when my children stop f-in with stuff.

Use your new picture to make Sun tea. Good old fashioned Lipton works great. When it steeps outside in the sun the tea doesn’t have that tannin bite.

I'm planning on using my dorm cart for the kitchen once I move into my studio and since there's very little counter/storage space it works great. I usually can't afford to get new stuff that maybe looks less college-y so I think rethinking some of my existing stuff to look more practical in a more "grown up" environment is a very useful and fun challenge (and maybe a good topic for a future video? idk).

I always leave a border around coffee table to puts drinks or phone. They are overstyled most of the time imo. I’m not a fan of dining rooms that don’t get used. I like stools at an island and one table to sit. The throw and pillows in baskets again somebody did it for a home staging or catalog. It’s over styling. And PSA everyone seems to be on the .. thrifting bandwagon.. well thrifting can be a bunch of wasteful junk too. It’s not all gold or personal or unique only because it’s old. No need to fill your home with a bunch of thrifted stuff. Figure out what you need and then shop around via multiple outlets until you find what you want.

The "how to style different surfaces" idea would be a GREAT video!! That would be a good one to save and look back on as well❤

100% here for how to style different surfaces video. Always love new ideas and I'm sure there will be tips I haven't thought of either.

I would looovveeee to see a video of how to style surfaces!! Like a countertop, top of a hip-height bookshelf, shelves, nightstands, bathroom countertops… I struggle with all of these being both beautiful and functional

This might seem like a faux-pas of an opinion but while I understand the optical effect of hanging curtains close to the ceiling as opposed to butt-up against the window, I find it looks strange to have a gap of vacant wall space between the curtain rod and window trim. Lately I’ve been hanging my curtains at about the halfway point between ceiling and window and it looks much more balanced than floating in space. All that to say, I hope the modern curtain hanging theory doesn’t become law because it looks a little off.

Thought of this video idea the other day. You design a room with a style you hate (farmhouse,boho). I’m curious what your take of these styles would be idk. A challenge perhaps?

Immediately restyled my coffee table! Thanks for the great suggestions! Keep on sparking 🎉

I do have some “mass produced” and am planning to switch it out with some film photos my husband and I have taken, basically applying what I’ve done in the rest of the house into our living room. I have multiple paintings from my grandmother that she painted for me over the years hanging in the house and I looooove having them and displaying them. One is in my daughter’s room 🖤💜

Oh my goodness I’m so enthusiastic about the coasters!

Okay pretty sure I've commented this a few different times but i really love it: I set up my whole tv system, all my consoles, and dvd cases on a bar cart so i can wheel it to different places in my home. In my first two apartments i had a coat closet i could tuck it into, easily hiding the TV and easy to wheel out when I'm wanting to watch something. Now it lives in my guest room and it's such a perfect system for me. I'm not a big television/movie/video game person as it is, so the money I'd spend on more aesthetic tvs and storage systems just doesn't make sense. It doesnt look especially cute or anything but it's so convenient!

I LOVE my bar cart. I have it "running into the wall", al a Platform 9 3/4. It doesn't even hold alcohol- its DOG TREATS!!

I think this is the 5th or 6th design video posted from my subscription today. Design Sundays?

I do have a bar cart, but the kind with sliding glass doors and a detachable tray, a vintage find from the 60s in great shape,but I don't drink, so now I use it for keeping some of the more delicate CDs albums from getting dust, and they look great too, and for art, I look for street artists, thrift stores and auctions, it's amazing what you can find in unexpected places!

I love eating in the dining room!

Thank you for your sound advice. So much of what you share, I am using. I started last summer, but I am still not satisfied and still have much work to do. This summer: This summer, I started getting rid of furniture I’ve had for so many years. I downsized in preparation for retirement from a 2500 sq ft house into a 1700 sq ft townhouse. I didn’t want to let go of the oversized furniture from my large home, because it is so well made and expensive. I did get ride of my dining room set. I replaced it with a small bistro set and used the rest of space for a sitting area. I still need to work on changing my paradigm and develop and select personalize art pieces. I just haven’t found any. In the meantime . . . I will keep my pass produced art until I find personalized art pieces I fall in love with. And . . . Uncluttered and strip down each room.

So many awesome ideas and inspiration here. I feel comforted with the "rather have nothing" mentality, as right now, I actually have nothing in my living room, lol. Everything I like is very expensive and I don't feel like shopping twice. But soon I'll be getting a few more items. Love a lot of the pics of living room spaces, particularly the one with the low bench behind the chairs. I may adopt that style. Looking forward to the Was store items--I need coasters!!! Please don't sell out before I can get them 🙏

Really enjoy all your videos and your newsletter! Thank you.

I love the idea of replacing the dining area. Like a cool drink/appetizer/board game sitting area would be so much cooler than a dining room. Plus if you have dogs, having an sitting area where the dogs don't sit is kind of nice.

The "Spark Joy" sounds cliche but it's true. Keep the stuff and decorate in the way that speaks to your soul. Also, the "Home Goods art" makes a great base for DIY art. I thrifted a big printed canvas landscape piece I'm planning to paint over. I might not gonna over the whole thing, but it has a manufacture flaw I need to fix and I'm not gonna spend a ton of time trying to color match. In the end, I'll have a real painting on a canvas I got cheap.

You’re a decorator unless you’re certified as a designer. It’s not a difference in talent, just qualifications in specific areas of home and/or commercial design and construction.

You are a "Tastemaker " ❤

Was just asking myself if I needed a bar cart lol. Seems like that was huge like 4-8 years ago 😂

Hi Page, so excited you'll be shipping internationally this time! Please don't forget Switzerland on the list 😊

I love the idea of having a multipurpose dining room. Like maybe you do other things in the room, but when you want to host a lot of people you can expand the table or unfold it, etc. Store away things in cabinets or a buffet. For example, I sew a lot, and I'm currently looking for an apartment with a formal dining room bc I could use the big table to cut out my patterns most of the time, but cover it in a cloth and host my family and friends there too when I want to.

Yes to the styling video!!!

The Goldmember reference 😂

I would love a video on how to style a self! I have a Milo Baughman style glass shelf that I have such a hard time decorating. Thank you Paige for the amazing videos!!! love your content

The jump scare lol

I use cookbooks as coffee table books. They're usually chunky and substantial with interesting cover designs and actually useful.

Completely agree on the bar cart. I don’t really love a dedicated space in any regard to alcohol or coffee. I prefer it put away….something about the dedicated space feels tacky to me.

Yes to the decorating surfaces video!!!

Like the sound of you showing us how you style things. Do it Paige ;)

Yes to surface styling! Please also do a book shelf styling video!!

My thoughts are the personal items you put around your house should tell a story about you.

Would love to see you style an everyday dining table centerpiece for every day use.

Yes, please do a “decorating surfaces” video! How to decorate your kitchen table, coffee table, bathroom counter, etc

Bar carts are cute if you push them around to guests at a party and make a drink then move on, but not as a stand alone furn. My DIY's have mainly been finding badly painted furn on the street and then stripping and refinishing it , repairing it also if needed. Usually antiques, white oak, or pine, that look gorge when restored. A formal dining room would make a great home library!

A video on how to style surfaces would be fantastic. Do it. Please 🙏

Wujuuu so excited you are shipping internationally, I have my eye on a couple of goodies alreadyñ.

yesss paige would love a video on styling coffee tables and nightstands

Really liked this video. Thanks for making them.

I grew up in a house with an eat-in-kitchen and no dining room. Holiday's were cramped and the overflow mess always ended up on the table. When my parents renovated and added on a kitchen, they turned the EIK into a dining room. The dining room flows into the kitchen, which has a large arched opening flanked by counter tops. It's the best of both worlds as it functions a roomy place to eat and as a cook, it's used all year round and you don't have little kids under your feet while cooking. I honestly prefer two separate spaces for eating and cooking, although a small table or preferably, Island with seating, is great when you have guests in your kitchen or a kid hanging out doing homework. I think the rule is, get rid of the formality and use all of your spaces. If it's not useful to use as is, re-think it.

I would love to hear your thoughts about surfaces! Maybe dressers, night stands, and desks would be great to throw in too!

Oh gosh we have a sexy tv room that's dark and moody and then a bright sitting room that flows into the kitchen. It's great! I feel so relaxed in the TV room. It's set apart from the rest of the home and we got a brand new couch. We're going to use the sitting room for non-digital media only which I think is super fun and more social.

Another good one... Formal Dining Rooms: In average homes, kitchen tables and formal dining tables are individually too small for entertaining extended family for holidays. Why not put both tables into a larger "family room" and use the dining room for TV viewing? Then you could enlarge the kitchen or create anan office or a cozy reading area where the kitchen table was. AndI, I love a big table in a big room for spreading out projects like cutting out sewing patterns, or art projects, or cookie decorating, or organizing photo albums, or framing pictures. If one or more more entertaining tables can be folded and stored to the side, you've got space to dance or exercise. Other than plumbing-specific rooms, you can use any space for whatever purpose makes the most sense for the people living there.

Loved this video. The best yet.

Would love to see surface styling designs.

Long time lover of your videos :) A video idea would be to see how you’d style a house/dining table for a dinner party or event (including your new napiery of course). You’ve got such a great eye and I think those kind of videos are of really high value because they’re educational on some of the principles you use and we don’t necessarily have.

You make me laugh with every video! You spark joy with me!!🤣

True, you don't have too many pillows on your bed, but imho your bed could look much prettier and more inviting.

I fell in love with bar carts when I saw “The Bad Seed”. 😂

I use my dining room as an office/library. I was fully expecting you to criticize the look of my antique dining table, but instead you gave it a thumbs up--it's in my kitchen!

PLEASE do a surface decor video it would be so helpful. and bookshelf tips if you haven't already!

I’ve never understood the leaning ladder decor thing. Growing up in California I’m just like, that’s going to fall over 😂 I love a eat in kitchen as I guess they’re called. I hope to one day turn a dining room into a den/office/sitting room deal

Yes to the surfaces video!

omg yes to the syling surfaces video !!! please

Very funny that you start out your video on things you don't need in your house with the purchase of an iced tea maker. Tea kettle, pitcher. Done. Love your design aesthetic.

I have to agree with the throw blanket hanging out of the basket. It kinda looks like you left your laundry in the living room. 😂

I think it's so interesting that as much as I love your videos and they inspire me, this specific video to me is so "American". Like everything you criticize are things that I have seen over and over again when I lived in California right after Highschool. I came home last year, I study back in Europe and I on the one hand still have pieces of art that I thrifted from California that are "personal" and I plan to keep for longer but on the other hand everything I own now is stuff that I could see myself keeping forever because it's handmade, thrifted, something I remember from trips or generally well curated stuff and not just what you describe as "stuff from your college time" with the examples that you mentioned. I know no one in Europe whose interior looks like that but yes I do know a bunch of Americans, my age and older who this exactly relates to. I don't know what it is, if it's "cultural" or simply "style", because if someone would say that's their "style" well to me that is sad but so be it and these exact people aren't targeted to your videos anyway. All that to say, thank you for your videos!! You are one of the only reasons I still watch RU-vid :))

would LOVE a video on styling surfaces! i find it so difficult. ❤ ❤

I feel personally attacked about the throw pillows😂

I don’t have a basket for my blankets but I do have two toddlers so the blankets are typically found draped on the floor… or over some chairs to make a tent 😂

i am SO delighted by the phrase "pipe and a crepe? smoke and a pancake?" holy shit paige YOUR MIND

If you have a small kitchen, you need a dining room. Personally, I prefer a dining room so I don't always have to look at our messy kitchen--seeing a mess reminds me I have work to do, messes I don't want guests to see. In a family of four, there's always someone cooking or getting a snack or dropping off a dirty dish. And after prepping a meal for guests, the kitchen is littered w pots and pants that aren't very decorative. :) Thus: separate kitchen and dining room is 🎉🎉🎉. IMO. Bar carts are very nice options for small corners of a living or dining room. If you get a nice one, it looks quite decorative. And guests can help themselves to whatever they want. We have a fancy sprudler on ours (spent $$$ on a decorative one) so it's nice to look at. Very practical in my opinion!

Pure Leaf no sugar is the best iced tea! love your videos :)

YES the Austin Powers reference is such a throwback 🕺

I’d love if we could replace “toss it” with like donate it or sell it or something? I know you don’t necessarily mean to throw everything away, but I feel like dumpsters should be the last resort. Even for mass produced shit, if you bought it you’re responsible for getting rid of it responsibly

I do need to declutter quite a few things from my apartment, but I feel so guilty about throwing things away. But then it's also not the easiest to donate certain things (I live in NYC) and many places don't take things like used linens. I would love advice on ways to declutter and not feel totally horrible about it.

I agree on the dining room being a waste of space for most people. I grew up in a 20's home and the dining room was a walk-through space with a big table. I just moved and purposely chose a house where there was no large dining area and a decent sized eating area in the kitchen. I'm trying to decide what to do with some blank walls. I agree it's better to just leave them alone than try to cram something there for the sake of it.

Should definitely do a whole video dedicated to bookshelf styling. I think it could be super helpful especially with your styling background

I told my 'keep anything that could still be used' parents tat "perfectly good" isn't good enough. I meant that just because something is perfectly good and could still be used, doesn't mean it deserves a place in the home. I keep a bag in the house and whenever i find something i don't need, i put it in the bag. When the bag is full, it goes in the trunk of the car. When the trunk is full, i drive it to goodwill and donate. Makes that donating chore so easy!

Definitely please style some surfaces. Many surfaces.