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Finally make your home feel the way you’ve always imagined —
with a simple recipe and rhythm to follow.
Do you ever feel…
• overwhelmed by cluttered or unfinished rooms that don’t feel like you?
• unsure of your style and constantly second-guessing your decorating decisions?
• like you’ll never have the calm, cozy, collected home you long for?
You’re not alone.
The good news is this:
you don’t need more time, a bigger budget, or a perfect house to change that.
✨ Your home doesn’t have to be perfect to feel like the sanctuary you long for.
You just need a rhythm and recipe you can return to.
A sanctuary isn’t just a philosophy or an aspirational goal you can’t reach.
It’s a calm, cozy, collected feeling you create.
And it doesn’t happen by accident–it’s shaped with intention.
In the HomeBody House, you’ll find the tools and guidance create the sanctuary you crave in every season.
Calm, cozy, collected isn’t a style to copy.
It’s a recipe and rhythm you learn to use–and make your own.
Calm — relaxed, inspired, and at peace.
Cozy — warm, welcoming, and comfortable.
Collected — intentional, authentic, and thoughtfully layered.
Your rooms don’t need to be perfectly furnished or finished to feel this way.
With a rhythm and recipe to follow,
your home can feel inviting now…
and ready to evolve with you.
Calm — relaxed, inspired, and at peace.
Cozy — warm, welcoming, and comfortable.
Collected — intentional, authentic, and thoughtfully layered.
Your rooms don’t need to be perfectly furnished or finished to feel this way.
With a rhythm and recipe to follow,
your home can feel inviting now…
and ready to evolve with you.
Join us in The HomeBody House to Create Your Sanctuary
When you join the HomeBody Gathering Place, you’re welcomed inside The HomeBody House–a cozy online space that feels like a retreat for your home. Here you’ll learn the rhythm and recipe that help your home feel calm, cozy, collected, and complete, turning it into a true sanctuary.
You’ll learn to follow a decorating recipe built around six thoughtful ingredients — customized to your taste, your life, and your season — so you always have a clear path forward and confidence in your decisions.
With your Room Recipe, you’ll always know where to begin and what to focus on next, so you’re never stuck waiting for a future season to feel better in your home.
Room Recipe isn’t based on generic steps that don’t make sense for your life right now — or a list of things to buy that don’t fit your priorities.
It’s focused on what matters to you, with timeless and practical design principles to guide your decisions.
Room Recipe helps you take simple steps right now, without waiting for perfect timing or perfect pieces. You’ll be able to pull your room together with confidence so it feels welcoming and complete — no need to wait until your home can be perfectly furnished or “finished.”
And with each ingredient, and each season at home, you’ll refine your style with more confidence so your home feels cohesive and collected over time, too.
This is how you make your home feel the way you’ve always wanted it to — with a rhythm and recipe you can return to again and again.
Less second-guessing, more calm, cozy, and collected.
✨ New! The Room Recipe Workshop: How to Create a Calm, Cozy & Collected Home
Join us for our foundational 5-week guided decorating workshop (weekly beginning January 14, but you can jump in when you’re ready) during our Wintering for HomeBodies retreat — the videos will be saved for HomeBodies to enjoy anytime.
With six thoughtful ingredients and a simple recipe to follow, you’ll learn how to pull a room together with confidence — starting what you already have — so it feels calm, cozy, collected, and complete in every season.
In the 5 week video workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- *Begin every season with intention so you know what to focus on
- *Create your “secret sauce” for turning any room into a sanctuary, even in a busy season
- *Address your room’s silent to-do list (so you feel better in the space right away)
- *Visualize the mood you want want and bring it to life with an six simple ingredients + a recipe to follow
- *Identify your Style Setters so future decisions feel easier (and your room feels cohesive)
- *Use my Seating Places + Spaces formulas so the whole room feels cozy, inviting, and ready to serve you and your family
- *Select friendly furniture that encourages comfort and conversation (even in smaller homes)
- *Create a flexible layout that serves everyday life and hospitality
- *Refine your style over time so it never feels “dated” — and stays a true reflection of you
- *Build a decorating capsule so your home looks pulled together (with less to store and less to buy)
- *Style surfaces + walls to tell your story and set a welcoming mood (without clutter)
- *Make decorating decisions with confidence and fewer regrets
- *Add layers of charm and warmth without adding excess stuff
- *Refresh your home through the seasons — without shopping
…and so much more.
Your recipe becomes your rhythm for decorating and guide to refining your home, and style, now and over time.
You’ll get instant access to all six of our digital magazine-style decorating guides, a Room Recipe Workbook for the Room Recipe Workshop, decorating cheat sheets, enjoy inspiration galleries, and more inside The HomeBody House!
Wintering for HomeBodies
A retreat inside The HomeBody House
In The HomeBody House, you’ll learn — and begin creating —
the sanctuary you’ve always wanted.
Winter can be hard, but creating a home that nurtures you doesn’t have to be.
We start every season with intention inside The HomeBody House.
Join us for a cozy virtual retreat experience where you can learn and make intentional improvements at your own pace.
During the Winter Retreat, you’ll find:
HomeBody Notebook: Winter Edition
Seasonal pages to help you slow down and focus on what matters.
Gentle Winter Rhythms
How to set home goals and create a supportive winter rhythm — for you and your home.
The 5-Week Room Recipe Workshop (our foundational workshop begins January 14th)
Learn how to create a calm, cozy, collected home and make simple improvements starting with what you already have.
Room Recipe Resources
Printable Room Recipe Workbook, access to full-color digital decorating guides, curated inspiration galleries, and more.
transformation tools
learn to love your home, so it’ll love you back
- Virtual Seasonal Retreats in The HomeBody House: Join us for cozy online retreats for your home. Begin every season with intention — and create a sanctuary with your rhythm and recipe. Enjoy a new guided workshop each season, along with inspiration and creative resources in every season!
- The Room Recipe Workshop: A new 5 week foundational decorating workshop with a printable workbook, weekly guided videos and creative resources, and access to six beautifully designed, e-zine-style ingredient guides with principles for finding your style and decorating a room step by step at your own pace. Learn the how to make confident decisions with fewer regrets!
- Home Rhythms: Simple routines that bring peace to each season and restore a sense of order to everyday life.
- Home Therapy: Encouraging ideas and practical methods for homebodies to create a sanctuary.
- The HomeBody Companion: Weekly retreat updates delivered like Room Service to your inbox with relevant ideas and resources so you stay inspired and connected to your home journey.
- The HomeBody Notebook: The HomeBody Notebook: Seasonal edition with notes, worksheets and planning tools to support your home goals.
- Exclusive Bonuses: Instant access to all content including The Dailies: Four Daily Routines and How to Welcome a New Season to Your Home.
private homebody community
share the journey of creating a sanctuary
In our (optional) Facebook group you can:
- Ask decorating questions and get advice anytime! We’re here to help!
- Share your home progress and be inspired by the community
- Meet fellow HomeBodies who relate to all things HomeBody and can encourage you in your journey!
home therapy
be a happier HomeBody
All of our principles, methods and creative resources are designed to feel like therapy for you and your home.
Home as a Sanctuary
A home should be more than a place to live—it should be a place of peace, beauty, and refuge. We teach how to create that meaningful place with our Room Recipe and Home Rhythms–practical methods that work for any home and budget.
The Practice of Home Rhythms
Caring for your home isn’t just about chores. Home Rhythms are the gentle, recurring patterns of care HomeBodies learn to embrace—small routines and rituals that bring order, beauty, and well-being into our daily lives.
Prioritizing Well-Being
When you prioritize a sanctuary, you’re also investing in your own well-being. A peaceful and personal home encourages a happier and more peaceful HomeBody.
Shaping a Life You Love
Your home inspires your days. By designing a space that nurtures you, you’re building a foundation for the life you want to live.
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This is the HomeBody way:
– embracing your rhythm & recipe to create a calm, cozy and collected home
– creating a sanctuary that feels welcoming now (and with a future vision and plan)
– and designing a lovely life at home in every season
A Year of Sanctuary in The HomeBody House
Our focus for the year is simple:
to find your rhythm + recipe—so you can create a sanctuary with care in every season of home.
This means beginning each season with intention:
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Following a gentle rhythm that fits the season you’re in
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Using what you already have to create beauty (and peace)
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Making your home feel calm, cozy, and collected—evolving over time so spaces feel pulled together and purposeful (not cluttered or chaotic)
The rhythm we follow in The HomeBody House is simple:
You’ll learn one foundational recipe in the Room Recipe Workshop—then enjoy a guided Core Workshop each season on themes and rhythms that help you refine your recipe over time.
Each workshop offers guided, timeless, practical refinements you can apply in any room, at any stage—so you can make meaningful progress with confidence and grace (not pressure). 🤍
We begin each season with a quiet retreat of resources, so you can start with clarity, a rhythm to follow, and priorities that support your season of life.
Every season in The HomeBody House adds value, clarity, and fresh insight for your rhythm + recipe. You can begin right where you are and keep moving forward without feeling behind—and everything is saved in The HomeBody House, so you can revisit at your own pace.
In each season, you’ll experience:
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Peace in your surroundings
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Confidence in your decisions
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Inspiration to enjoy your home more—every season
Join annually for the best deal—and the full year of seasonal retreats + workshops to support your sanctuary in every season. 🤍
Join Now to Create Your Sanctuary
Your membership rate will never increase, as long as you remain a member!
Monthly
monthly member- Join us in The HomeBody House (for our cozy virtual seasonal retreats, workshops, creative resources and guided help for your home!)
- Home Therapy (practical and encouraging methods and inspiration for HomeBodies)
- New! 5 Week Guided Room Recipe Workshop to create a calm, cozy and collected home. Includes printable workbook and access to our six beautiful decorating guides
- Home Rhythms that simplify how you care for your home (and you)
- Pretty graphics, printables, checklists, worksheets and note sheets to inspire your journey.
- The HomeBody Notebook: A delightful, printable companion for each season—find note pages, gentle prompts, home goal sheets and more.
- Curated Inspiration Galleries and Home Tour Videos (to find ideas and inspiration for your Room Recipe at your leisure)
- Community (ask questions and share!)
- Read The Inspired Room ad free!
- HomeBodies get 20% off The Inspired Room Digital Store!
- Cancel Anytime
Annual
annual member- Join us in The HomeBody House (for our cozy virtual seasonal retreats, workshops, creative resources and guided help for your home!)
- Home Therapy (practical and encouraging methods and inspiration for HomeBodies)
- New! 5 Week Guided Room Recipe Workshop to create a calm, cozy and collected home. Includes printable workbook and access to our six beautiful decorating guides
- Home Rhythms that simplify how you care for your home (and you)
- Pretty graphics, printables, checklists, worksheets and note sheets to inspire your journey.
- The HomeBody Notebook: A delightful, printable companion each season —find note pages, gentle prompts, home goal sheets and more.
- Curated Inspiration Galleries and Home Tour Videos (to find ideas and inspiration for your Room Recipe at your leisure)
- Community (ask questions and share!)
- Read The Inspired Room ad free!
- HomeBodies get 20% off The Inspired Room Digital Store!
- More than 3 Months Savings compared to monthly members! ($66)
What Members Are Saying about HomeBody Gathering Place:
FAQs
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Do I need a Facebook Account?
No Facebook needed. You will access the retreat and all of the resources by logging into The HomeBody House (a private dashboard) — you don’t need a Facebook account for the resources.
With that said, we encourage members to consider setting up a Facebook account to join the HomeBody community, ask questions and share with others, but it isn’t required!
How often do you open the membership?
We offer a cozy virtual home retreat experience with a themed workshop in every season. Join us at the beginning of any season (dates are always announced) and stay to be inspired and make progress year-round!
Do I learn how to get your style or do I have to have a certain design style to benefit from this group?
I teach you how to embrace your style and create a calm, cozy and collected home that tells the story of YOU! You’ll learn to decorate your home with essential ingredients every room needs, then you can personalize them to taste with our Room Recipe Method (and guided workshop).
You get to choose your own style setters and elements of style, you’ll decide how you want to mix and match ingredients. With Room Recipe, you learn how style is shaped over time. Your style will always be 100% your own!
However, if you love my style and are inspired by the choices I make, I’m always happy to share how to get a similar look and feel in your home.
I have been a home-maker for years. Would this community be right for me?
Yes! HomeBodies simply want to love their home. Whether you have been creating a sanctuary for many years, or are just getting started, you’ll be at home here. Even if you’re not in a season of active home improvement, you’ll LOVE the simple home rhythms we practice and the simple ideas we share every season.
I don’t have a lot of time right now, will I still benefit from this?
Absolutely! HomeBody Gathering Place is designed to make creating a sanctuary simple so it’s attainable and nurturing, even in busy seasons.
You can pop in any time, or join us for guided workshops. We offer so many simple to enjoy “retreat options” that are perfect for busy HomeBodies (you can even relax, learn and get inspired with our curated Home Tour videos, inspiration galleries, and even printables to help you simplify and organize your home and life, and so much more!).
As a member, everything we create is saved for you, so you can be inspired with what you need, any time.
Hi, friend! I’m Melissa—HomeBody, Sanctuary Expert, creator of The Inspired Room, and New York Times bestselling author of A Lovely Life, Dwelling, Love the Home You Have, and nine more books all about creating a home that nurtures you.
Alongside my two daughters—busy moms and HomeBodies themselves—I’m here in HomeBody Gathering Place to teach simple home rhythms that will nurture and inspire you in every season.
I began my own sanctuary journey years ago, full of dreams for the kind of home I hoped to create. After moving many times, navigating years of homekeeping trial and error, decision fatigue, and enduring a difficult season of anxiety and overwhelm, I finally discovered the secret to the environment I craved: establishing nurturing home rhythms.
These rhythms changed everything.They helped me turn our home into the true sanctuary I had always imagined. It wasn’t about perfection—it was about purpose, intention, and learning to embrace soul-filling practices that supported the life I wanted.
Best of all, these simple rhythms didn’t just transform our home—they transformed me.
That’s why I now call myself a HomeBody. Through my own journey, I discovered how deeply the state of our home is connected to the state of our mind, body, and soul. Finding the right rhythm helped me to feel my best so I could enjoy my home more, pursue dreams and raise my family in the way I wanted to.
And now? I love helping others become happier HomeBodies, too.
Join us in HomeBody Gathering Place. It’s for every HomeBody, in every season of life. You’ll be invited to The HomeBody House where you’ll find your rhythm and recipe t0 make your home your sanctuary.
Twice voted Better Homes & Gardens Readers’ Favorite Decorating blog
New York Times Bestselling Author with eleven books on creating a home you love
– My kitchen designs, decorating advice and home projects have been featured in magazines around the world
BOOKS BY Melissa of the inspired room
– Dwelling Well Monthly Journal
– But Where Do I Put the Couch? + Answers to 100 Other Home Decorating Questions
– The Inspired Room Coloring Book
Find details on all books by Melissa here.
Questions? Email us at [email protected]
