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Phone with text on screen: 10 Things You Should be Storing in Your Cell Phone

10+ Things To Store In Your Cell Phone {Organize Your Life}

DIY & Crafts

The past few years, I’ve been on a mission to organize my life and home in a way that reduces stress and makes me less cranky…most of the time. 🙂  The biggest lesson I’ve learned so far is that improving tiny habits or removing small frustrations really does add up to huge changes.  One of the little life hacks I’ve…
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Wood kitchen shelves with glassware and white letter board with gold letters saying "Today's Forecast: Sunshine & Margaritas"

Letter Board Sayings for Summer

DIY & Crafts

With the end of the school year right around the corner, it’s time to switch out those spring letter board quotes to sayings perfect for summer!  If you don’t have a letter board, these would be fun written on dry erase boards, on random days in your planner, or even on post-it notes around the house!  I’m into starting small…
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How to Design a Laundry Room You'll Love - Using the Polished Habitat Design Method worksheets

How to Plan a Laundry Room Makeover

DIY & Crafts

Do you have any rooms in your house that just don’t fit with the others? As we’ve SLOWLY updated and decorated the downstairs of our home, the laundry room has felt more and more out of place and dysfunctional. It’s time to kick off a laundry room makeover! Instead of just showing you my plans and calling it a day,…
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How to Hang Heavy Art Without Tools

DIY & Crafts

While it’s not as fun to talk about the functional part of decorating, without knowing how to do things like hanging heavy pictures, we’re all left with blank walls! Before we start, the tip today is focused on hanging art in drywall, so if you have an older home with plaster walls or shiplap, know that I’m jealous of the…
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Indoor plant in a white ceramic pot

Decorating with Indoor Plants, Plus Tips to Keep Them Alive

DIY & Crafts

A few weeks ago, I confessed that I mix decorating with real house plants and fake indoor plants…and I think you should too!  In that post, I outlined the spaces around the house where it makes sense to opt for faux.  Today, let’s chat about the flip side and share some tips for indoor plants! Don’t worry if you feel…
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DIY Gift Box with floral bottom and modern black and white top.

10 Things A Beginner Should Know About Cricut Design Space

Cricut Tutorials· DIY & Crafts

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine.     For years, I didn’t fully understand why people were obsessed with their Cricut machines like the Explore Air 2 and the Maker. I thought they were mainly for scrapbookers and people with a lot of free time. I didn’t…
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Easy Home Organizing Tips You Should Try Today

Organizing

Over the past 5 years, we’ve slowly become experts at making our home function in a way that makes life easier.  It’s really been an evolution of small changes that have added up to a big difference in our day to day routines.  Time management is a struggle for many households, so what if you had a little of your…
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Welcome!

In 2013, Melissa started Polished Habitat to share her skill of mixing decor & organization to add style & function to everyday life at home.

Her work has been featured in print in Better Homes & Gardens and Room to Create Magazine, and online by HGTV, House Beautiful, Buzzfeed, & more.

In 2018 &  2019, Melissa was named as a Style Maker by Better Homes & Gardens. In 2019, she was also short-listed by the Amara Blog Awards for Interior Styling, International Division.

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