Every week, our House Calls feature takes you into homes with great style, big personality, and ineffable soul. We often talk about how good design makes a person?s life more efficient and enjoyable, but for Stacey Blake it does that and more.

Blake calls decorating her home "therapy," and the thousands of people who follow her blog (Design Addict Mom) and on Instagram are along for treatment benefits. We visit her in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to find out why it?s just what the doctor ordered. Blake used to be a teacher obsessed with DIY home projects and interior design blogs. When she staged a Moose and Zee birthday party for her son seven years ago, the results were so charming, she decided to put the ideas on the Internet?and the response to those images of a party based on the Nick Jr. cartoon launched her design blogging career. For Blake, the blog was therapeutic. She?s a mother of two boys (Zion is 8, Ian is 5) and her husband is a member of the U.S. Army Special Forces and, in her words, "always deployed." The family has lived a nomadic life, residing in five different homes, sometimes on an Army base. "I always put my touch on our homes, even if I had to put everything back the way it was when we left," she says. "That?s just the way I am. If we lived in a box, I would decorate it."

Home blogger Stacey Blake made a colorful, idea-filled home for her family, which includes sons Ian (left) and Zion...