This lovely and inspirational guide, organized around six joyful qualities, will show you how to create a happier home, through prompts, quick fixes, afternoon projects, and mindful design and organization— The Happy Home is not just a title, it’s a promise. Energize. Uplift. Comfort. Calm. Empower. Express. The road to happiness is paved with good emotions. In fact, a happy home is infused with these six actions and this cheerful book will help you create a space you love and that loves you back. Lovely Indeed creator Chelsea Foy offers up more than 50 creative ideas to engage all the senses to brighten your mood throughout your home. This book sits at the intersection of HGTV home improvements and design, thoughtful Marie Kondo practices, and a cheery color palette fans of the Home Edit will love. Kicking off with a foreword by Joy Cho, creator of Oh Joy!, the book guides you through questions to consider so you can customize your home to your own mood-lifting needs, be it a calming bedroom, a chill den, or an energizing kitchen. Easy projects and ideas help you tweak the rooms of your house so they engage the senses in all the right ways. Each chapter focuses on a feeling and includes: Guided prompts: Questions to consider about what a happy space might look and feel like for you - Quick Tricks: Creative hacks and ideas to freshen up your space - Afternoon Projects: Doable projects and inspo for your home and décor to amp up the joy - Big Ideas: Step-by-step projects that you can complete in a day or weekend that are inexpensive but go a long way to creating a home tailored to your tastes and happiness needs   With this handy and cheery book, you'll quickly find ways to customize all the rooms in your house for maximum bliss. "This book is a guide to instilling the joy into your home that we all need." — Joy Cho, founder of Oh Joy! "This straightforward debut by Lovely Indeed blogger Foy shares ideas on how to brighten up living spaces. “Joy is found in the little moments surrounding us every day,” she writes, outlining mostly low-effort projects intended to inspire joy in the home."-- Pubilshers Weekly CHELSEA FOY is a maker and the founder of creative lifestyle blog Lovely Indeed, where she shares parenting ideas, family travel tips, and colorful DIY projects to inspire a lovely life. Her work focuses on finding joy in the everyday and encouraging others to easily do the same. Chelsea has been featured by Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens , and HGTV, as well as in television appearances and at public speaking events. She resides in her beloved home state of California with her husband and two kids. See more of her work online at LovelyIndeed.com and on Instagram @lovelyindeed. Joy is not difficult or expensive. It’s not exclusive or elusive. It’s everywhere, and there’s plenty to go around. When I was a kid, my bedroom was in a constant state of flux. I used to have a habit of closing the door, telling my mom not to come in until lunchtime, and completely rearranging the room, furniture and all. My little ten-year-old muscles would push the desk across the room, place the dresser under a different window, pull down all of my posters and make new art, and arrange little vignettes of my favorite toys on the windowsill. And when it was just so , I would call in my mom and invite her to sit down and look at it all. To enjoy the new experience.   I remember her being generous with attentive comments ( Ah! And why did you choose to put that there? How interesting. This area with your beanbag feels very cozy. ) and ever patient as she would inevitably come in the next time to find another new arrangement. But I wasn’t rearranging things to impress her or anyone else. I loved the act of changing my room because it was a way that I could make my space feel completely new and unique. I had power over my little realm, and I could wield that power to make my room feel like me. It was an act of creativity, of expression, of empowerment, of self-care. And it felt good. It made me happy .   Now, as an adult who has lived in fourteen different homes, things aren’t that much different. I still find constant joy in creating a home that feels good. I have long believed that there is loveliness and joy in the world, accessible to us all, just waiting to be discovered or created. There’s nowhere more important to create that joy than in our homes—where we eat, sleep, raise our babies, nurture our relationships, and more. As the world shifts and we are utilizing our homes for work, play, and everything in between, I do my best to maximize the joy, beauty, and functionality of my home through projects and ideas that are not just beautiful but also useful and easy to create. I may not be a plucky ten-year-old anymore, rearranging furniture, but that instinct to create a happy nest is still within me. And these days when I invite people into my home, I’m met with questions like: “How di