Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2024 on Southern Home & Hospitality

Inside: The best decorating, recipe, and DIY posts of 2024 on Southern Home and Hospitality according to you! 

Happy 2025!🎉 I can’t thank you enough for spending your time here last year. 2024 was a life-changing year of uncertainty for me—I’m glad it’s in my rearview and I’m full of hope now that those changes were for the best. Your visits, comments, and support mean the world to me and they’re what have kept this business of mine going.

At the end of each year I like to look into my Google Analytics to see which posts out of ones that were newly published during the previous twelve months you enjoyed the most. It helps tell me what you liked so that I can create even better content for you in the year ahead!

So here’s a quick recap of what I found—just in case you missed one, or are just curious like me about what was most popular.

In 2024, your favorites you were all about making home life prettier, cleaner, and tastier with decorating ideas, cleaning tips, and simple recipes. So without further ado, let’s count down the top 10 decorating, DIY, entertaining, and recipe posts you visited most last year.

10. What Is the Bookshelf Wealth Decor Trend and How to Get the Look

We wanted to know more about Bookshelf Wealth—a timeless style with a trendy new name early in the year. We learned what it is and how to achieve this cozy, curated, lived-in look full of your own personal style.

9. Decorating a Downsized House for Christmas: Holiday Home Tour

Many of y’all took the Christmas tour of my home to see how I decorated my new downsized place for the holidays.

8. 19 Creative Ways to Decorate a Big Blank Wall

This one’s not too surprising because so many of us struggle with what to hang on those big bare walls. These 19 ideas to decorate a large wall will help you solve this common decorating problem.

7. 99 Home Staging Tips and Tricks from the Pros

I put together this comprehensive list of the best home staging tips I learned while working as a home stager and also while getting my home ready to sell that will help you show your home off to its full potential!

6. 120 Best Southern Sayings That’ll Charm Your Britches Off

We had some fun with this list of common Southern sayings, expressions, and slang that have all the charm and wit the South is known for—they had us grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato!

5. How to Clean and Whiten Yellowed Bathtub Jets: My Real Results

If you have an eighties or nineties jetted tub, you know how yellow they get. This post was my honest first-hand experience trying to whiten yellow plastic tub jet parts using hair developer, plus some easy steps for cleaning the internal plumbing of a jetted tub.

4. 35 Ways to Add Character to a Basic Builder Grade Home

How I miss the unique character of my old home (but not the size). This post has a whole list of ideas to add character, charm, and historic interest to your builder grade home that work whether you have a cookie cutter new house, or an older one that needs a dose of personality.

3. How To Clean Your Oven Without Harsh Oven Cleaner

I shared this simple step-by-step guide to cleaning the entire oven without using toxic and harsh chemicals that’s better for you—and your oven.

2. Secrets to the Best Nothing Bundt Cakes Lemon Copycat Recipe

Attention Nothing Bundt Cake fans and lemon lovers! This easy copycat recipe for Nothing Bundt Cakes Lemon Cake is amazingly moist and tender like the real deal, but made for much less at home. The perfect balance of the sweet tanginess of cream cheese frosting and lemon loveliness.

I’ve sure enjoyed this look back at just this sample of what I’ve written in 2024. And I’m already bursting with ideas to bring you even more of what you want in 2025! But I’d love to hear from you—drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you want more of on the blog. And if you had a favorite post from the past year that wasn’t in the top ten, let us know that too!

Here’s to a shiny new year filled with inspiration and creativity. I can’t wait to share more of what we both love—whether it’s styling spaces, making delicious dishes, hosting gatherings, or tips for making running our homes easier. Cheers to an amazing 2025! 🥂

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