Elevate the everyday, sleep on linen, and embrace bold colors in your home.
Get a peek into Hamiltons house (and design) rules.
Hamilton’s top tip to make her house feel like home?Plants.
Credit: Photo: Kim Thomas. Design: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong
Start with those items and design around them.
Make Yourself at Home
Hamilton said this would be top of her list.
What it means to make yourself at home varies guest to guest.
Credit: Photo: Kim Thomas. Design: Caitlin-Marie Miner Ong
Keep a Fully Stocked Bar
Hamilton is a lover of cocktailsparticularly bourbon and tequila drinksand of entertaining.
Always Make the Bed (as a Guest)
Hamilton alwaysmakes the bedwhen staying in someone else’s home.
She doesn’t want to be the “messy guest.”
Credit: Right Photo: Kim Thomas. Left: Courtesy of Carmeon Hamilton. Design: Catilin-Marie Miner Ong
And while Hamilton wishes she applied this rule at home, she admits it doesn’t happen every day.
And there’s a good chance the dinner she’s eating is aveggie lasagnaher son’s most-requested meal.
Shoes Off or On?
Credit: Kim Thomas
“My house is a shoes-on house,” Hamilton says.
“I didn’t grow up in a shoes-off house.
I didn’t really know that other people did it until I was an adult.”
Toilet Paper Roll Over or Under?
So now she hangs it under.
She asks questions like: What needs to happen in this space?
Who needs to use this space?
How many people max are going to be in this space at one time?
Once a space is laid out to function properly,thena style or an aesthetic can be applied.
She doesn’t get caught up in “the look” at the start of the process.
Second most important to Hamilton is lighting.
Then additional lighting can be added.
The mural in her kitchen bleeds into so many other rooms that she stopped at one wall.
Hamilton encourages you to go all out with your wallpaper or bold paint color.
“I love enveloping a room in color, especially addressing the ceiling or wrapping a room in wallpaper.
Do your accent on the ceiling instead.”
After our conversation, Hamilton’s practical advice had me rethinking a few things around my own home.
