#25 | copy-paste interior design

A lot of you have been asking...

I bought a house last fall and have since become one of those insufferable people who only wants to talk about her house!! We’ve had expensive plumbing issues, a disgustingly high interest rate on our mortgage, and many interior design choices that remain unchanged since it was built in 2005, a time period best known for its emphasis on beige everything. Enter: Canva mood boards.

I have lost many hours (days) of my life reimagining every room in my house, as well as creating an entirely new personality because I’m delusional if I think I’m going to end up with black & white marble checkerboard floors in a 20 square foot bathroom.

And yet I persist. I even tried to take it a step further and teach myself how to use SketchUp so I could model rooms in 3D and create beautiful, realistic renderings in an effort to get my husband to just say yes to whatever design I came up with that day. As it turns out, SketchUp is both really hard to learn & potentially not even the best choice of software so back to Canva I go!

Every time I share the latest tweak of my bathroom design on Instagram, someone asks how I make the graphics. There’s a way to do it in Instagram Stories but I do pay $120/year for Canva Pro to get access to premium graphics and the background remover tool, which I find absolutely worth it.

Tip: If you already use Canva, I recently learned that instead of taking a screenshot or downloading an image and then upload it to Canva, you can just copy the image in your web browser and paste it into your Canva file. It has saved so much time & desktop clutter!

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