Welcome to Domestic Diva, the blog page for Grace Your Dwelling Place™. I’m so glad you’ve found it and since you have, I can only presume that we have a few things in common or you wouldn’t be here.
I’ve always been a bit of a Domestic Diva having learned from the best – my parents. They are of the Silent Generation and know how to make do with whatever comes their way. From my first-generation Italian-immigrant mom I learned how to cook, clean, sew, entertain, and decorate within budget. And from my dad the builder how to resourcefully use leftover lumber, paint, and other construction components to improvise and creatively solve design dilemmas. Not to mention how a functional home plan purposefully serves its people. And from them both, how to organize and manage a household. But foremost of all – how to faithfully serve with love.
Furthermore, it’s been such a lifelong blessing that they also provided travel experiences infusing my desire to enthusiastically embrace worldwide encounters of place and culture. I encourage you to do the same and to encompass your experiences into Your Personal Home Style.
My hope is to grace and be graced in our interactions here as we share and embrace each other’s domestic and international experiences, especially as they pertain to Your Personal Home Style.
Common Interests in Domestic Design
Some things we may have in common:
- Being of a certain age group…let’s call it experienced adulting (meh, maturity is another matter)
- A desire to “age-in-place” for yourself or loved ones
- To Live Well Where You Dwell©…regardless of age:
- aesthetically
- efficiently
- entertainingly
- financially
- functionally
- safely
- spiritually
All the above is what this blog and I am about. With the intent to purposely inspire, enlighten and guide you in being able to Live Well Where You Dwell©, to embrace where you’ve been and evolve to where you are now and where you are going.
Why the Domestic Diva blog title?
My Domestic Diva blog title was a moment of pure inspiration. Domestic Diva does a darn good job of describing my knack to pull together and manage a household that’s functional while being beautiful. And those homesteads that I’ve helped along the way are welcoming for all dwellers and visitors of any age/ability. At least, I like to think so and have even been told so.
It’s pure providence that my welcome image captures the essence of my being and design biz. The Welcome mat conveys my forte of pattern and color dance interplay. While the “stained glass” represents a deeper, spiritual sense of purpose in interior design to Live Well Where You Dwell©. The traditional door with the discreet modern combination key lock characterizes how we can collaborate to unlock the potential of Your Personal Home Style.
Domestic Diva Definitions
I ran across a couple compelling definitions for domestic diva:
- A domestic diva is NOT a victim, of time, position, or male society. She is a servant in the great sense of the word, as one who serves her family and friends for the sake of love. And her home is the medium through which she serves that family best (from I want to be a domestic diva: what do I mean?).
- A housewife who is beautiful and fabulous but hard-working. Making a fashion statement while doing housework is a must! She’s usually multi-tasking by taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning, [bill-paying, household management] etc. while wearing her cute little aprons and high-heeled shoes. It’s all about looking good while doing it (from Urban Dictionary: Domestic Diva).
Remember June Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver?
Meh…NOT so much into the June Cleaver housewife image of doing household chores in heels. I rather prefer the practical aspect of getting the job done comfortably and quickly! Can’t currently claim the wife title either, but I can rock the high heels. I also have a couple cute little aprons!
My Domestic Diva Topics
I am particularly passionate about all things that make a house a functional, beautiful home and reflects the personality of people who dwell and visit there. So, let’s nail it down to a few…
Topics I will blog about:
- Home Functionality
- Floor Plan/Furniture Arrangement: relationships between furniture, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features plus activities that will take place in a room dictate the selection and arrangement of furniture.
- Lighting, properly done can enhance task performance, improve the appearance of an area, and have positive psychological effects on dwellers.
- Organization: Declutter. Categorize storage. Multi-purpose/repurposed space.
- Aging-in-Place, aka Universal Design
- Nearly 90% of people over age 65 want to stay in their home for as long as possible, and 80% suppose their current residence is where they will always live. How can your physical environment accommodate aging-in-place?
- Personal Home Style
- Color
- Pattern
- Collections/Heirlooms/Mementos that influence your home style
- Holistic
- Mindful, Physical, and Spiritual Places of Grace travel experiences and other sources of enlightenment that influence home style
- HouseHold Hacks aka HHH
- Manage the House: Budget. Calendaring/Scheduling. Maintenance.
- Green Cleaning: Natural. Methods. Essential Oils (EO).
- Product Recommendations/Reviews
- Real Estate Trends
- Remodeling Value
- Stay or Move
- Market Overview
- Remodeling Value
Who writes this Domestic Diva blog?
I will, for now, be the soul author/contributor to this blog. But I totally welcome your blog posts response comments and/or suggestions for blog topics. Please be respectful though and keep my blog rules in mind as outlined below.
Blog Rules of the Road
I welcome interactions with my followers. You are welcome to post questions, comments, concerns, or ideas on this page. My goal is to build a community where my followers can share content, express their ideas, share experiences, and provide helpful information to each other. Please note the rules below for this site and understand that I reserve the right to remove any post that does not comply.
- Be respectful of others. It’s okay to voice a complaint or to disagree with another post, but please do so in a constructive and polite manner. Profanities, personal attacks, defamation or use of obscenities about any person, group, organization, or belief are not acceptable and will be removed.
- Check your facts. If you post something that isn’t true it will be removed.
- Your posts should always be relevant to Domestic Diva content. Do not use this site to promote any other business, political candidate, or other causes…they will be removed.
- Negative posts are not allowable.
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- Post the same information more than once (aka spam).
- Post chain letters or pyramid schemes.
- Impersonate another person.
Open the Domestic Diva Door
I do take pride in my inherited, instructed, and intuitive abilities to make a house a home which is what this blog is about…being a Domestic Diva. You are invited to join me on your personally guided domestic journey to Live Well Where You Dwell©