Carmel Phillips

With practical help, tips, and tricks, Carmelhelps you reframe the way you see your home and encourages you to embrace slow decorating—collecting meaningful new, heirloom, and thrifted items over time—and incorporating vibrant colors and patterns that energize you.

Carmel Phillips is the creator of Our Fifth House, her popular blog site where she inspires readers to curate their home’s personality with simple design ideas and achievable DIY projects. She has been featured in Refresh magazine and The DIY Style Finder by KariAnne Wood. Carmel and her husband live in South Carolina, in their seventh house, with their two children.