The design expert and Emmy-nominated TV host of Netflix’s Queer Eye shows you how to set up your space so that it takes care of you. Learn how to follow your happiness to find your style, optimize the function of every room, organize your space, and so much more. The way your home makes you feel matters . After all, it’s your ultimate safe space and needs to be able to host your most intimate conversations and memorable celebrations. So setting it up for comfort, style, and authenticity is essential to your self-care. In Right at Home , Bobby shows you how designing your space, no matter what size home you have, has an impact that’s immediate, visceral, and undeniable. Learn how to: • Articulate what makes you happy so you can land on a design that reflects your truest style • Prioritize function and comfort so your space works for you (and not the other way around) • Know what to let go of and what to repurpose so that every room stays organized • Engage all your senses with texture, contrast, scent, and sound so you can stay in the present • Understand the emotional impact of color and confidently pick patterns, palettes, and color pops • Maximize lighting (both natural and artificial) to support a positive mental state • Boost your mood by bringing plants and nature into your design   Right at Home demonstrates that good design can aid mental wellness and helps us achieve a new sense of happiness within the home. With gorgeous photographs of beautifully styled rooms and Bobby’s tried-and-true tips, this is the definitive guide to designing a modern home. Bobby Berk is the interior designer for the hit Netflix show Queer Eye , with his own self-titled design company specializing in hip, minimalist urban luxury designs. Introduction The way your home makes you feel matters. The first time I knew design had the power to transform my mind, I was five years old. Inspired by the cool, blue tones from a dinosaur poster I had found at a local arts and crafts store, I decided to buy matching sheets and curtains for my bedroom (yup, even at five, your boy knew how to pull out a color palette!). I remember taking all the birthday money I had saved up—$80!—and asking my mom to take me to Venture (RIP to the old-school Target of the Midwest, one of my go-to places to shop for pretty much anything back then). I walked right up to the blue bedding sets without skipping a beat. As soon as we got home, I ran up to my room, removed the red bedspread and curtains that were there and replaced them with the soothing blues ones (right out of the package! The fabric was still creased and everything). I can remember how excited I was to see the final look as I stepped back to admire my new digs. The impact was immediate, visceral, undeniable. In my bones, I knew that the color shift was having a profound effect on my mood and emotional state. To this day, my mom still talks about how I had carefully explained to her that the red made me anxious but the blue made me feel good. I didn’t know why, I didn’t know how—I just knew it did. And the rest, as they say, is history. Now, it wasn’t a straight shot to Queer Eye from that moment on (not by a country mile!). I’ve had a circuitous path, to say the least (at one point, I was working the graveyard shift as a gas station attendant while also managing a Bath & Body Works store and squeezing in shifts at the Gap). But what I know now—that I didn’t know then—was that at five years old, I had just come face-to-face with my life’s North Star: my (design) instincts. And looking back, it’s so clear that my instincts had been leading me all along. Though it took me a minute before I found my way more formally into the world of interior design, my instincts were ever present through all my various gigs, living situations, and seminal moments. Now, sometimes, my instincts would lead me directly from Point A to Point B. When I was nineteen, I walked into the Great Indoors cold turkey and just point-blank asked for a job, because deep down I knew that I could (a) put together a space and (b) help others to do the same. I got the job on the spot and spent a year there being the #1 salesperson on the floor. (Later, I did the same thing at stores like Bombay Company and Restoration Hardware.) Other times, I would detour a bit first, and things would have to get worse before they got better. Case in point: My first big apartment complex reno almost got me evicted! True story: I was getting over a breakup and because, for me, home design has always been a massive act of self-care, I proceeded to activate a full-on Bobby Berk Redesign in my unit (i.e., I put in new flooring, painted the kitchen cabinets, and updated the light fixtures). When the super called the building owner in to tattle on me, I genuinely thought I’d be out on the street (again). But instead, the owner took one look at what I had done with the place, turned around, and asked if I c