4 Steps to Making a Comfortable Home

Written By Kay Tibbs

A comfortable home begins with well-curated art that reflects your personality and sets a welcoming tone. Invest in high-quality furniture that offers both style and long-term comfort. Next, choose a cohesive color palette that flows room to room, creating visual harmony and ease. Finally, use color intentionally to highlight your artwork—walls, accents, or lighting can elevate your favorite pieces.

Start with art that speaks to you—whether bold or serene, it sets the tone for the entire home. Choose high-quality furniture that blends comfort with craftsmanship; it’s worth the investment for everyday living. A cohesive color palette allows rooms to feel connected and intentional, guiding the eye smoothly throughout the space. Finally, let color support your art. Use wall tones, pillows, or lighting to draw attention to favorite pieces.

Together, these steps create a home that’s personal, polished, and perfectly comfortable. They can transform your space into a thoughtfully designed and effortlessly livable home.

Kay Tibbs

Kay Tibbs (°1960, Odessa, United States) makes drawings, paintings and photos. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, Tibbs formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition the establishes a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. By referencing romanticism, visual seductiveness and symbolism, she creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual. She doesn’t just capture nature, she reimagines it through florals and landscapes as seen through an artistic eye, made unforgettable.

Her works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory. Kay Tibbs currently lives and works as an Interior Designer in Kansas City.

With a career spanning over 40 years, Kay Tibbs has successfully completed a diverse range of projects, from residential homes to commercial spaces and everything in between. Her work has been featured in the KC Symphony Designer’s Shophouse and published photographs for Portrait of a City with the KCSCP and Nelson Atkins.

https://www.kaytibbs.com
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