Family Room Ideas

Family Room Ideas

Sweet Tea Hospitality brings inspiration to your heart and your home. There is a strong connection between your heart—what you enjoy, value and cherish—and your home. A home is the place we safeguard, share and experience our treasured, loved ones and make memories to carry with us through life. The family room is a favorite place in my house, where movies, activities and conversation can be found at all times of the day and night. Our family room decor is designed to be open, welcoming and ready for fun, but also relaxing and refreshing.

‘Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.” Matthew 11:28-30 TPT

 

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Don’t those verses sound exactly like what you want your family room to convey to your friends and loved ones? No matter whether you are playing games, watching a movie or leading a Bible study, you want it to be a room that brings rest to everyone’s soul. These verses are an inspiration for exactly what we want our family rooms to be, places of refreshment and rest for those we love. I would like to hear your family room ideas. Write to me at info@karenconrad.net or visit my website to let me know what you have done to make your family room a refreshing place.

Blessings,

Karen Conrad

 

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Remodeled Kitchen Ideas

Remodeled Kitchen Ideas

The kitchen is often everyone’s favorite room in a house. It is definitely a place where family members congregate around the countertops to hang out before, during and after a meal. If you are considering a kitchen remodel, take into consideration the gathering times that are shared in a kitchen and make space for them. The kitchen may involve food prep, but it also involves lots of fellowship—it is a place people like to be. No matter the culture, there is something special about the activity of a kitchen.  

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Were you wondering what Scripture has to do with a kitchen? Well, it has a lot to do with the kitchen and actually every part of your home. When I think about the kitchen and about Sweet Tea Hospitality, I am thinking about laughter, fun, and enjoying wonderful food and drink. I also find it quite interesting that God uses the word taste in scripture. In Psalms, David writes: 

‘Because of you, I know the path of life, as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence. At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore!’ Psalms 16:11 TPT

 

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God is telling us that we can taste the fullness of joy. It reminds me of some great memories from places I’ve visited and holiday meals prepared at our own home. Of course, the food was good but what I remember most is how it made me feel. When people say they enjoyed coming to your home it’s about the hospitality and how you made them feel. It certainly is about tasting the food but it’s more about bringing God into a home and people being able to taste the fullness of joy.

Taste and See,

Karen Conrad

 

Fireplace Ideas

Fireplace Ideas

Hospitality is a big part of showing people the love of God. My favorite place to show hospitality is in a room with a fireplace. I love fireplaces and I don’t know about you, but if there’s a place I want to cozy up and feel relaxed it is near a fireplace. Did you know, it’s actually scriptural for us to have a fireplace and to invite people over who may be strangers or new acquaintances.

The people who lived there showed us extraordinary kindness for they welcomed us around the fire they had built because it was cold and rainy. Acts 28:2 TPT 

This is talking about a physically cold time and I know all about that from growing up in Minnesota. I was a cheerleader in high school and Minnesota  was very very cold on game nights. We would ride home in the back of a school bus and by the time I got back to the school, I was teeth-chattering cold. My dad was there to pick me up and he always had a fire in the fireplace when we got home. He would put me right next to the fire then bring me a cup of hot chocolate or apple cider. That made me feel so loved and it created a memory that I have carried with me all my life.

I believe this scripture is also talking about when people’s hearts are cold.

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Guests in your home may have gone through a difficult season and simply need to feel the warmth and love of God. Biblical hospitality can involve welcoming guests into your home who have cold, sad hearts that need to be warmed. Spend some time gathering around the fireplace, talking about the Lord and creating beautiful memories with hospitality.

Gathering round,

Karen Conrad

Are you in Before or After mode?

Are you in Before or After mode?

Before and after pictures are a favorite thing of mine. Whether it is skincare results, home remodels or Miraclegro commercials, I love to see the transformation from what was to what is. I have included some before and after pics from our most recent house flip. We had so much fun with this remodel and I will be talking more about it in the weeks to come.

The thing about before and after is the distinct delineation between what was–your past–and what is–your present and future. What I love about the Lord is how He lets us look at the before picture but He removes any doubt, fear or shame connected to it, then He focuses our attention to the after picture. He helps us see the transformation He has made in our lives and He shows us where we are going in His plans and purposes for us.

Our lives consist of many before and afters, and thankfully, every day, hour and minute have the potential of transformation when we submit to the Holy Spirit. Through Christ we have been made fresh and new and that is good news!

‘Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new person. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new.’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 TPT.

Blessings,

Karen

 

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Are Your Dreams Languishing?

Are Your Dreams Languishing?

No matter who you are, what your background or where you are starting from, God’s plan for you is to finish strong and be successful. God has designed you for great potential and for great success. Your dreams are important to the Lord and He wants you to be successful in all your endeavors. 

When you seek the Lord first and obey His voice you can be assured of success

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He lets you plant and water, but He is the one who guarantees the harvest. He is the one who placed the gifts and talents within you for the purpose He designed for you from the beginning of time. He gave you those dreams.

Some days you may feel you have no ideas and limited natural abilities, but let me encourage you to remember what the Lord has available for you. ‘Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert. ‘  Isaiah 43:19 AMP.  Be aware of the things He is causing to spring up–ideas, opportunities and people–knowing with the Lord that nothing is impossible.

Revisit Your Dreams,

Karen Conrad

PS. Look for Episode 22 in The Promise of Purpose series on YouTube today. Hear Karen talk about the favor of God on your life.

 

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Family Room Ideas

Sweet Tea Hospitality brings inspiration to your heart and your home. There is a strong connection between your heart—what you enjoy, value and cherish—and your home. A home is the place we safeguard, share and experience our treasured, loved ones and make memories to...

Remodeled Kitchen Ideas

The kitchen is often everyone’s favorite room in a house. It is definitely a place where family members congregate around the countertops to hang out before, during and after a meal. If you are considering a kitchen remodel, take into consideration the gathering times...

Fireplace Ideas

Hospitality is a big part of showing people the love of God. My favorite place to show hospitality is in a room with a fireplace. I love fireplaces and I don't know about you, but if there's a place I want to cozy up and feel relaxed it is near a fireplace. Did you...

Are you in Before or After mode?

Before and after pictures are a favorite thing of mine. Whether it is skincare results, home remodels or Miraclegro commercials, I love to see the transformation from what was to what is. I have included some before and after pics from our most recent house flip. We...

Are Your Dreams Languishing?

No matter who you are, what your background or where you are starting from, God’s plan for you is to finish strong and be successful. God has designed you for great potential and for great success. Your dreams are important to the Lord and He wants you to be...

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