Designing a beautiful home starts with defining the style that you, personally, love. Of course, for most people, the answer to that important question is not always clear. Just what is your style? What would define your home as truly yours while also providing a beautifully united theme of materials, colors, and designs?

Fortunately, you don’t have to pick only one favorite color or style to create a space that reflects you. You’re not stuck with one specific theme like “blue bohemian” or “rustic lodge” for the rest of your life – or even for the rest of the year. Deciding your décor style is an act of discovery, and a journey you will likely be on for the rest of your life. Once you decide, you can design your space or your entire home in an uplifting and elegantly coordinated way, even if your personal style is a mix of two or three different décor styles and a blending flow of color palettes from room to room.

How should you discover and decide on your décor style? You can refresh your home on a budget and discover the styles that you love most with these seven tips that can help anyone pinpoint their personal decoration style.

Gather Inspiration from Magazines and Pinterest Boards

The first step is always to gather inspiration. Look at other home designs you have liked and discover what they have in common. You can find many rooms beautiful but try to pick out the ones that you think truly define who you are and what you’re looking to present in your home. Look for images of rooms you feel like you would love to live in, and rooms you could imagine as part of your home or inspiring your entire home design. You might find one or two inspirational images, or you might get lucky and find a whole collection of designs, each of which holds a piece of the personality you hope to instill in your décor style.

Magazines allow you to pour over one beautiful home design at a time with many photos of the same staged spread. Pinterest, on the other hand, allows you to explore designs by concept or color palette, following your own desire from one board to the next. You can recreate every look you discover with affordable furniture and decor from Decorsify!

Take Style Quizzes

There are many, many, online “Discover Your Style” quizzes available online, just a simple Google search away. Some might be duds, but there are some out there that are also very much worth your time. By taking these quizzes you might come to earn tips about your personal style that you had never realized before but come to understand once the results are revealed. We can’t tell you which online style quizzes will be valuable and which ones won’t, as that depends on your own personal preferences, but just answering a few questions might turn out to be more rewarding than you’d think.

And as a plus, taking style quizzes can be a great deal of fun! Grab your friends or your family and have them take the same quizzes as you. Compare your answers at the end and see what each person’s personal style has to say about them!

Explore Virtual Tours of Staged and Vacation Homes

One of the single best things about modern technology as far as décor and interior design are concerned is virtual touring. If you want to take an immersive walkthrough of a beautifully staged home, check out Zillow, Realtor.com or any vacation rental websites. Virtual tours are created by placing a 360-degree camera at many different vantage points throughout a home, which gives the feeling of taking steps and looking around when rendered into a web player.

While this is typically used for home buyers who want to get an extra bit of insight into any prospective homes or rentals, this can also be extremely useful for someone trying to map out their personal decor style! Take a look at a few different virtual tours and see if any of the staged furniture or décor catches your eye.

Try a 3D Design App or Interior Decorating Game

Want to try your hand at decorating without the purchases or furniture hauling? Try building your own virtual environment. There are now dozens of mobile apps just for interior design that allow you to pick out digital pieces of furniture and arrange them to create a miniature, decorated version of spaces in your home. If these apps are too basic or do not give you enough options, many people opt to use life-simulating video games such as The Sims, which allow you to build and decorate homes in a virtual world. This, too, can be a fantastic opportunity to explore your sense of style by “painting” the walls and placing a seemingly infinite selection of virtual furniture.

Check Your Own Closet

This one might be a little common sense, but if you want to discover your favorite colors for decor, first try looking in your own closet. Most people tend to wear colors that mesh well with their personalities – and those are the colors that you should also be looking for when planning to design a space in your home. You may come to realize that you like certain color combinations more than others, which can be implemented in your house as well as in your wardrobe.

Put Together a Dream Home Vision Board

This is a vital tip – don't skip making a vision board! Whether you’re cutting out magazine displays or building a board back on Pinterest, having a collection of inspirational images all in one place can really help you build a style and then stick with it. Building a vision board – physical or virtual – is your guiding point for your favorite styles and colors, whether those options have come from magazines, Pinterest, your closet, virtual home tours, or anywhere else.

Experiment with Your Style

Lastly, don’t be afraid to experiment. No person identifies solely with one style, or one range of colors. You may be drawn to dark and moody colors, but you decide the style of your home should instead be light and airy – it all requires some thought and experimentation! Try different paint colors, hang up different wall art, move your furniture into different placements until you find the right one for you; it can’t hurt!

Anyone can discover and actualize their personal decor style, and Decorsify is here to help! Check out our selection of furniture items and rugs today, sign up for our email list to get news of any new products, and explore our e-store to discover your style through what we have in store.