Wondering what in the world to give your mom who has everything this Mother's Day? How about the gift of decorating tips and tricks from none other than Joanna Gaines? Plus, watching Gaines's class on MasterClass titled “Designing a Home That Tells Your Story” comes at a way better than usual price tag with MasterClass offering 50 percent off their yearlong access for Mother's Day.What exactly would gifting your mom Joanna's class on Masterclass look like? Here's a preview of what she'll get out of the class based on what I found watching it myself. MasterClass Designing a Home That Tells Your StoryNow 50% Off$120 $60 at MasterClassFirst, a little of my own context for watching the class: While I spend a lot of time writing about beautiful interiors for Country Living, I am not an interior designer, so I often feel unsure about decisions I make to decorate my own home. What size should a rug be for this room? How should I arrange this shelf? What color should I choose?Often for décor guidance, I start with images of living rooms, bedrooms, dining spaces, and more I find online. But in this MasterClass, Gaines, founder of Magnolia, gave me confidence to start a different place in my design decisions: with my own story. “Your home isn’t just where you live. It’s a reflection of who you are and your story,” Gaines says at the opening of the class. And that’s her framework for the rest of what she shares over the next hour and 25 minutes (which goes by real fast!), as she gets more into the nuts and bolts of renovating and design decisions. I’d forgotten that Gaines herself isn’t formally trained in design either, but as we all know, she certainly knows how to do it well. In the class she walks you step by step through her design process and how to apply it to your own home. It’s equal parts visual feast of images of her own projects that make you think, “Yes, I want a room that looks like that!” and practical instruction with tips (including budgetary ones!) to help you achieve your version of just the right room. In fact, after each section of the class, Gaines gives you bulleted “home” work points after to help you take your coaching home with you.One of the key ways Gaines makes design feel more doable is how she encourages you to develop a vision for a room that first starts with its functionality for your family (amen to that!)—a point she emphasizes with stories of spaces in her own and how they practically work for their family of seven (and in the end, it looks real pretty too)—and then how she encourages you to return to your design vision time and time again as you select each element of a room.As I watched the class, I was not only taking notes for this review but also thinking through my own living room, jotting down the words that best encapsulated my vision for it and thinking about ways those words can help guide me to find the right lamps, art, and other pieces I have gotten stuck picking out for most of this year. “Maybe I could frame some of my classical music-loving husband’s vinyl album covers?” I thought as she talked us through finding objects to display that mean something to you—accents that are “the soul to the room.”Even though a lot of the class is centered on inspiring you to do your own décor work, I appreciate that I also got a good dose of good ole before and after stories. Throughout its length, Gaines describes how her design process played out for several projects of different styles, including her own home and how it has evolved in its décor over the years. In a way, these stories are all what we already know and love of Gaines and her style and her process, but this time they come with a framework that especially encourages you to try it for yourself—with a Joanna Gaines level of confidence that you are the best designer for the space you spend time in and that, in the end, it should look like no one else’s room but your own. To fully embrace all of those ideas and many more, I definitely recommend you give the gift of watching the MasterClass. Annual memberships start at $120, but they are 50 percent off for Mother's Day and go on sale other times of the year as well. Madoline Markham KoonceAssistant Managing EditorMadoline Markham Koonce is the assistant managing editor at Country Living and VERANDA, where she covers home décor, shopping, travel, news, and culture. She began her career at Southern Living and previously worked in community journalism—including serving as the editor of three community magazines she helped launch. She has an undergraduate degree in history from Rhodes College (and loves to tap her love of history in her writing) as well as a master's degree in magazine journalism from the University of Missouri. When she's not on deadline, you can find her baking or lost in a good book.