How To Achieve a Sophisticated Decorating Style
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How To Achieve a Sophisticated Decorating Style

Looking to achieve a sophisticated decorating style? At MOTIV, our focus on sustainability, sophistication, and creating a space aligned with your vision allows us to create unique, refined spaces tailored to your desires.

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Eco-Friendly Home Companies in Nashville
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Eco-Friendly Home Companies in Nashville

Working with an eco-friendly company in Nashville is key to ensuring a sustainable outcome for your next design or build project. And with the climate crisis continuing to escalate, choosing an eco-friendly interior design or system is one of the best things you can do to protect the health of the planet as well as your family.

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Organize Your Home for a Sophisticated Design
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Organize Your Home for a Sophisticated Design

When trying to achieve a sophisticated design, organizing and decluttering your space is critical. Creating an organized space clear of clutter is proven to reduce stress and reflects Deepak Chopra’s musing, “What we see, we become.” When you are surrounded by physical clutter or chaos, it will always create mental clutter and chaos.

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The Five Elements of Feng Shui
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The Five Elements of Feng Shui

Whether you’re new to feng shui or diving deeper into this ancient practice, understanding the five elements of feng shui is critical. When we realize that these five natural elements make up all matter on our planet and are constantly transforming in an infinite cycle, that really puts their importance into perspective.

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Decorating with Natural Materials
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Decorating with Natural Materials

If you've been wondering how to decorate with natural materials, you’ve come to the right place. We’re diving into nature-inspired interior design and using the 4 major facets of feng shui to guide us on our journey.

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The Best Non-Toxic Paint & Wallpaper
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The Best Non-Toxic Paint & Wallpaper

Your walls and ceiling make up the largest percentage of surface area in your home, which is one of the reasons it’s important to choose the best non-toxic paint and wallpaper for your home. You’re not only going to SEE these surfaces the most, but you’re going to BREATHE in anything you place on your walls.

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How To Use The Bagua Map In Your Home
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How To Use The Bagua Map In Your Home

For anyone interested in the practice of feng shui, understanding how to use the bagua map in your home is key to aligning the energies of fortune and abundance—the constantly flowing life energy that is all around us and within us. Working with feng shui and this energy of abundance is a way to heal and amplify your health, finances, family, relationships, and overall happiness in any aspect of your life on which you choose to focus your energy.

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How To Remove The Toxins From Your Home
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How To Remove The Toxins From Your Home

If you’re looking for advice on how to remove the toxins from your home, you’ve come to the right place. Here at MOTIV Interiors, we believe in creating sophisticated and sustainable homes, and as part of our mission, we love helping people clear their homes of toxins that can cause long-term health effects.

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Top 5 Ways To Shift the Energy in Your Home Using Feng Shui
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Top 5 Ways To Shift the Energy in Your Home Using Feng Shui

As an interior designer certified in feng shui, I cannot stress the importance of using the principles of feng shui to shift the energy in your home enough. When the energy of your home is harmonious, you will be amazed at the feelings of ease, joy, and peace that you experience.

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3 Keys to A Stunning Bathroom Renovation
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3 Keys to A Stunning Bathroom Renovation

If you have ever attempted a bathroom remodel, you know it’s no joke. Today we are explaining the three keys to a successful bathroom remodel. Follow these guidelines, and the result will be a bathroom you will love for years to come.

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A Sophisticated Cabin Kitchen In The Woods
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A Sophisticated Cabin Kitchen In The Woods

For our Cabin(ette) project, we created a sophisticated cabin kitchen in the woods, which turned into an incredibly special space. One of the goals in purchasing the property was my long-term commitment to living sustainably. I knew I would have the space to grow a large garden, potentially raise chickens, and truly enjoy a farm-to-table lifestyle.

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Reimagining A Nashville Airbnb
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Reimagining A Nashville Airbnb

MOTIV Interiors was so thrilled to reimagine a Nashville Airbnb as a colorful yet relaxing retreat and a space for guests to unwind and recharge after a long day of exploring Nashville!

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When to Hire an Interior Designer
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When to Hire an Interior Designer

Have you been wondering when you should hire an interior designer? Between an internet filled with DIY projects and entire TV networks showcasing ordinary people tackling house renovations, it can be easy to dive into a home project and quickly find yourself in over your head.

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Level Up Your Long-Term Rental
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Level Up Your Long-Term Rental

With a housing market that is hotter than ever, investing in improving and leveling up your long-term rental has never been a better idea.

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Top 3 Ways to Level Up Your Airbnb
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Top 3 Ways to Level Up Your Airbnb

As an Airbnb superhost and experienced interior designer, I love helping my fellow hosts create a space where their guests can feel truly at home.

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10 Sustainable Home Design Ideas
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10 Sustainable Home Design Ideas

If you’re ready to create a home that is healthy for your family and the Earth, we have 10 sustainable home design ideas to get you started.

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