WAIT! Don't DECORATE until you DO THESE 5 THINGS 

My dream piece I have always wanted is a chaise lounge

Yes I want to see it all. I'm on the same journey right now. 4000 sq feet is hard. But, with all knowledge that you and other designers so graciously share..... for free..... here and youtube. For the first-time in my entire life, I truly am getting to have a home that is DESIGNED. So, sincerely from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU. 💋💯💯💯

Great advice. I’m moving into a new home and I got rid of 95% of my furnishings, so I really am starting from ground zero. This was very helpful. Thanks!

Hi Valentina, I left on one of your videos a comment just asking for a video exactly like this from you. I now found this. Thank you so much. You are an incredible teacher. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with us.

Such great tips! our decor should be a reflection of who we are and what mood we want to be in. Thanks for the inspo today ♥

People should rethink TV. A quiet space for thinking and reading, plants, Art you love, comfort and real alone time is so beneficial.

You can’t go wrong w neutrals, black and white. Add fresh fruit, cuttings in vases, paintings from thrift stores w good frames and is original. Great lighting, uplights, good wool rugs, pillows, nice architecture vases, busts, sculptures.

I’d love to see your room come together! I was so uplifted by the last video that I’ve named my latest family of ornamental illustrations Valentina. I’d been searching for the right name for a week and then it was like a neon sign burst onto the computer screen. It had to be inspiring, fun and sophisticated and suits them perfectly. Thank you for the inspiration in every video.

Your channel is literally the best. This video is so helpful!

The back to the future series I love as well!!

I’ve been getting overwhelmed by decorating/ furnishing my house. This was so helpful to recenter on how I want to feel in the space. Gives me a lot more confidence 😊

I loved the tips on today's video. I would love to see the process you did on creating your living room.

Never shop where you think you can afford. I absolutely love that advice. Best advice I have heard in a really long time!

Valentina: "..I hope you found this video helpful.." Me: "EVERY TIME." 💗

OMGOSH, every time I watch your videos, I think it can't get any better than this, but you always manage to hit the ball out of the park! This is exactly what I needed to help me with my, new to me, Townhouse. So far I have been working on the fundamental things, new paint throughout, new hardwood floors, kitchen, entry hall and bathroom light fixtures, kitchen appliances, water saving toilets, new light switches to accommodate LED lights, countertop and floating vanity in the bathroom. Lots left to do but little by little it's getting done. I want it to be energy-efficient as well as esthetically pleasing. The tips you share are so well thought out and help us resist going down the emotional path to candy land which can be fraught with overspending and regrets, to following our true design desire and coming out a winner at the end. Thank you, Valentina!

Hey Valentina, I love your approach. Room makeovers are always fun to watch, so more of that would be great to me.

This is such a helpful video!! yes, please take us along for as much as you can in designing these new spaces! would love to see all aspects, even if you think it's boring, it's not!

Can’t wait to see your space one together and how you decide to decorate it!!

I would really like to see how you go through with this space, the whole transformation. Love your content.

I didn’t know Back to the Future is your favorite movie! Mine too!😃😃🦋

Just excellent info, thanks so much! I’d love to see the work in progress as you put the room together. Love ALL your videos.

This video is so so great! So Appreciate the points to consider.

Valentina! You are so right! I did a PowerPoint with everything I liked and it really helped me see how the space would come together

You are so amazing Valentina, so inspiring and thought provoking. Thank you 🙏

Fantastic and easy to follow tips! And yes, would love to see you out your together. Thank you!

Saved it as soon as I opened it because I know I'm going to need it anyway 😵‍💫

Great advice!! Thanks Valentina! ❤️

My mom was a clothes buyer in New York. She was sharp and shrewd. Her advice to me as a kid was shop at the fancy places first. Sometimes great things are on super-sale or sometimes you just get ideas there. Same advice as yours with design. Thank you for reminding me about that. Really am thankful for what you do for us!

Love this advice! I’m going to use it in my very first project in my new home: the half-bath/powder room! 👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️😊😊

Loved this video! Thank you.

I absolutely love your laugh! Enjoy your content. Great job!

So in love with your sun room💕💕💕

Loved all the tips in this video.

Yes, I want to see every part of your process!😊

Thank you - such valuable info!

We just moved in to our first new build a few months ago and the tips you give are invaluable!

Love this advice. Really has helped out a lot!!!! There are not many designers on you tube that actually give you useful advice. Loving your channel!

It’s funny I came across this video. I just did this for my new retail space and my daughter had me do a Pinterest Mood Board for my business. Helps me know I’m on the right track. Thanks!

Valentina, I so enjoy your aesthetic, I love blues and beachy coloring, I have a great room area that I have been using your ideas and it is a comfortable space. When I saw your bedroom it was like an Aha moment. Thank you for these suggestions!!! Keep it coming!!

Yes please that would be lovely.

Great video! I took notes and I’ll go through the process step by step. While at my trip to Target yesterday I stood in the isle and realized I was trying to do it all backwards.

New here. I've been binge watching your RU-vid channel. I love you style because it's similar to mine. Modern, minimalist, black and white kind of gal.

Hang the curtains Jack :) Thank you both for your help! I am so happy with my place thanks to inspiration from you! Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing your monthly refresh ideas.

Great scott! Love the vid.

Yes, I’d like to see how you pit rooms together one step at a time. I’m looking to finalize designing my Dining room area that has a straight line view to the kitchen. It’s too simple & the dog kennel is there too.

So much value! Thank you! Xx

I'm a new subscriber and I absolutely loved your tips in this video. You have great energy, loads of information and ate so much fun to watch! Thank you for this great video!!!

So helpful! I’m on the hunt for decor!

Valentina, thanks, this is very helpful as escrow will close end of August, then the games (decorating) begin … so EXCITING!!!

Wow Valentina you just read my mind. Right when we are moving to our new home and me and my husband are just thinking and thinking, ... and thinking. Because we got a nice house yes, however, the main floor is such a weird open ish" layout. And I'm just melting my brain into coming up with ideas for the main floor! On addition, we have a boy of 5 and a girl of 2.... Is really challenging this whole decoration process. I started watching you when we were putting our old house for sale. About a month ago. With the amazing comical video you made of staging your house to sale. Which it helped us a lot! We got an offer 10 days after listing. And ever since I felt in love with your videos and your whole vibe! Keep on Valentina. Hopefully I can buy ypur designs in the future!❤ ❤

Thank you Valentina. Great tips!

I understand and appreciate your five tips but where I get so confused and overwhelmed is by committing to a style I like. I can appreciate many different styles and not sure how to put it all together.

Great tips! A good way to start dreaming to hone in on the final stretch. Many thanks! Yes I’d love to see how you go they the process for your room. Yes please!

Saved this one. Very helpful advice.

You are so talented and inspiring. Thank you for moodboard information never heard of it going to put it to use.

I'm working on my home office since, you know... I just painted it white and love it! Now to declutter the shelves...

I whant to feel calm and happy when i come home. Great video. 👍🌷

These are fantastic, and so fun to watch. For once I am not scrolling forward to find the essence of the actual topic; which is pretty awesome. I love your insight and humor! We just bought a typical old New England stone house and I tuned in to gain much needed confidence in my paint color choices; and ideas for the L-shaped narrow living room. ( I downloaded your PDF for the 2021 neutrals. Thank you for putting a free link in for that.) Very, very cool interior design vlog.

Your tips are fabulous 👍🏼

I would love to see you do an entire room. Great info

Going through the process in my sun room currently, would love to watch the journey and see your final design

Great tips! Thank you!

Excellent advice

Great tips annnd I luv ur makeup in this vid xx

Hii♥️ I love Minimalist,French elegant,European rustic decor,Cozy and neutral color..Have a lots of I want in my empty living room and totally lost lol

Thank you thank you thank you!

I really appreciated your video! I've used many of those tricks intuitively! I'm not a nutter! Pinterest was a great help for me to incorporate what I had and what I needed. Building does require one to make a lot of decisions. Trick Monkey? Interesting. Keep up more of these videos. Very encouraging!

Love!

Getting ready to buy a more affordable home that has a smaller foot print per room visually. Enjoying all the great info...keep it coming!

Dont know if make sense, but I like chic and drama minimalist but I also like bright and happy space but I do like the mysterious decadence like Venice (Italy) ...my Pinterest boards are crazy 😂😂😂😂 . My dream furniture is a white sofa and valvet sofa ...but imagine dogs and kids and messy husband it is just not viable 😂😂😂😂

I loved this! I am in the kitchen emptying moving boxes! the move went well and I am using the tips from our session :) this video was very helpful, thanks!

Ordering furniture based on a floor plan was exhausting. We started fresh. Living with no furniture might have been a better decision. I have been tweaking. Hahaha Totally applying your ideas. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Great tips. Will definitely enjoy viewing the process to redecorating your sunroom (or any room). Tfs!

Valentina this is another awesome inspiring and a practical in a magical way video!!!! I'm so excited that I found you and your channel!!!!!! Thank you!!!! I'm going to go on Pinterest and set up a whatever you call it and find Monkey Pick and check that out and answer the questions that you suggested......omg I feel like I am excited about our home and expression!!!!!

Great tips! Also another thing I like is to find out your favorite color. You like black and I love blue! All shades of white and wood with shades of blue!

Oh I wish I had seen this before I bought what I got last year! What I wanted just doesn’t work. I’m thinking of selling what I got and starting all over again and trying not to beat myself up about it. Thank you so much for this video-it really helped me regroup.

We’ve been in our current home for 6 years, but just bought it from our landlord. Suddenly, I find myself unhappy with how we organized and decorated now that we own it. Of course, now I can do things like update the fixtures and paint and flooring. This is a good thing to hold onto as I redo our house. I’m starting in the kitchen and just picking new paint colors and reorganizing has changed the whole feel of it. Now I WANT to be in there. As for throwing everything together I like and figuring it out later, something I tell my husband is that I need to stare at it for a while before I decide on it. Most of my furniture is stuff I’ve rehabbed and sat in my garage for weeks or months )or that one chair for years) while I decide what to do with it and where it should go.

So good

I love Back to the Future!

Thanks for your great tips. ❤️🇳🇿

Hi Valentina! It would be so helpful if you could do a video on the steps you need to take in hiring a designer in your area. We are moving into a brand new house and I'd love to get it right and I think hiring someone for some of our main areas would really help me out but I don't even know where to start with finding the right person to come in and help our home!

I would love to follow the process!!!!

I screen record everything I like on my I pad when browsing on utube Grig Stamate , even the music is fab!!!!

SUCH a valuable video!!! Thank you so much for this! my husband and I Just moved into a new Loft style townhouse and we are starting from COMPLETE scratch with our furniture and decor and as you know styling a Loft can be a tiny bit trickier due to the setup, I literally listened to this video 3 times so I Could take note of the information, I will definitely be using these 5 steps moving forward so we can have our dream loft with all the vibes 😍 #Subscribed 🥰

Absolutely mood rooms and I can't tell you how many times I move items from room to room to make it look different thru the season Great Advice 🌻

I need someone else to thumbs up because I don’t want to be the 666th person! Too many weird things happening in the world for me to do that. Yah I’m being superstitious! Ha Thank you so much for your ideas! I just opened up my own little boutique salon during the craziness and I would love if you could help people like us figure out the best way to make our small space functional and glamorous. It’s only 140 sq feet. Walls are planetary Silver by Behr paint at Home Depot and the flooring is grayish pergo that mimics wood flooring but is easy to clean stains off.

Yes! Would love to see you pull your sunroom together! In the near future I will be styling my sunroom too. I almost went astray and so happy I talked to you first. Do you ever visit consignment stores?

HA! this is funny. We recently changed everything in of our living room and I think we may have hit every no no on this list. The thing that saved us tho is that Ive had a running pinterest page for years of my favorite looks and vibes and my husband has a good eye for furniture and things he likes. We did do a gut check midway, when we realized we only had half the seating we needed for a family of 6! oops! And then ordered that dream piece. fingers crossed that everything works together!

Love 💘 😻 💜 this VIDEO.... NEW SUBSCRIBER 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

I love this! We are moving into our first house and I'm so excited to go through these steps and love my new spaces. Thank you!!!

Yes. See the process. I am lost.

Great video, but I have a question that has to do with a previous one you did. What is your favorite flatware? I looked it up when you mentioned it earlier (like months ago LOL) but now I've forgotten. Thanks and keep the videos coming - you're terrific!

It’s about priorities! If you short change yourself on that one piece of dream furniture you may never feel like the room achieves what you want it to! Maybe there are other features in the room you can go to target for, but invest in the pieces which really will satisfy. I love using second hand furniture for the most part.

Love all your videos Valentina. Moving into our dream home in a yearish and so would love your help. Your style really resignates with me... I love Scandinavian Modern Minimalist. I’ve started to pin. Thank you for your channel💕

My husband and I need help decorating with what we already have but we can’t seem to find anyone to do that for us. A year ago we moved to Naples Florida and we have some stunningly beautiful art deco furniture that we love but we just have no idea how to place it in this home and how to decorate around it. I am 61 my husband is 67 and I am disabled from a stroke. I wish I could Just say to him I want this I want that and have him go get it but he has very strong ideas about what he wants as well so together we are sort of a mess. The only thing we completely agree on is that we love art deco

Love seeing your process :) I believe one needs to feel the energy of a room before you begin filling it up . Would love to find a small footstool in leopard print, just saying in case someone has a nice one! I’d love that we swap ideas and get feedback. Thank you Valentina.

Great video!! I love your black couch! May I ask where you purchased it?

I like your tips in this video, I want to apply this method so i can convert my small living room area into a shop by day and home living space by the evening . I am a dog groomer and use my living space to proform the grooms. do you have some suggestions?

Love this list of where to start. Our styles are similar so I love your channel. Wondering what pillows you would put on a charcoal grey velvet couch ( Ethan Allen so great quality). Solid cream or white seem too stark and I love contrast! I’d love an episode Just on couch pillows. 😊. Now, I’m not usually “that woman” but since we stare at you eyes all the time and I think they are blue? I’d love to see less black liner on the bottom of your eyes. I’d love to see the beautiful blue more. 😁.

Great tips! I have a question. I bought a matching pair of tufted couches and have them both in my living room. I’m thinking of placing one in the sitting room which is where you come in through front door. Would it look off to see one in there and one in the living room which you can also see as you come in the front door? .