Here is this week's little Saturday Morning Inspiration message!
What are the things you love most about your house that you would like to highlight...so you could enjoy them EVEN MORE?? Or maybe there is historic character that you want to make sure isn't lost, even if you are renovating?
This week I am coming to you from my project up in Maine, and I am excited to show you around!
This week I am up in Maine working on my client's historic cottage...and loving every minute of it!
I thought it would be fun share this article I wrote two years ago while I was up here. Hope you enjoy!
Deciding to redo a room can be a time of overwhelm.
Where to start? What to put into the space? What color should it be?
We often feel we have to totally reinvent the wheel and come up with completely new ideas, getting rid of everything in the space & throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
But the thing is, you don't.
If you carefully look at the room you are trying to redesign, it will kindly give you clues on how to bring the space together more beautifully and purposefully, but you just have to know where to look.
One of the most stunning elements of the cottage I am currently working on up in Maine is its glorious Gothic windows.
So lovely.
They are in an alcove on one end of a very large open space that includes the sitting room, dining room, and music room.
The shape of these windows is an element that I love. So, how can I bring more of that into play?
Last week while I was there working, I was so excited to find salvaged Gothic windows at an architectural antiques dealer in a nearby town. We brought them home, and set them in place to see how they would look...
I literally jumped up and down clapping when I saw them in place.
No kidding--I'm that weird.
We placed them at the opposite end of the large space on an interior wall. The two ends of the house suddenly started "talking" to one another--they were in relationship, and all the rooms in between now seemed to get along better, too.
Repeating elements within a space creates a way for a room or house overall to relate to itself. Seeing a theme or certain design element in more than one place in a room can create a sense of balance, peace, consistency, and symmetry. It provides for a bigger impact than if that lovely thing was used only once all by itself.
You may not have unique historic windows in your home, but you can add impact, too, by being consistent with other elements in your home, such as:
What elements in your space do you already love? How can you bring more of that thing into the room(s)? We often think of repetition as boring, but it really is something we look for, and find comforting & beautiful if done in the right way.
So, please go ahead and repeat yourself!
Here is this week's little Saturday Morning Inspiration message!
Do you have blank walls that stare at you blankly --wishing there was some neat-o artwork hanging on them? Do you wish you knew what would look good hanging over your sofa? Do you cringe just thinking about how to hang the artwork you do have?
We have all been there...
Hope this morning's short video gets you thinking in a new way about YOUR walls, YOUR artwork, YOUR house and how you LIVE in it. :)
In our complicated day-to-day lives, I think we all need a little reminder to seek simplicity--and a lot of times beauty and peace will follow right behind.
What can you declutter, take off your to-do list, or reimagine today so that life in your house can become more peaceful and beautiful?
I hope you are having a simply beautiful and peaceful week, dear friends!
Life can be busy.
And with all the busyness, life can be overwhelming.
And on top of the busyness and overwhelm, sometimes we just don't have the time or know-how to make the most of the space that we have to work with--
in our houses....
the place where we are supposed to go to RELAX, UNWIND, and be NURTURED.
Like me--and maybe like you-- this was the case for my client and her home office/music room. Lots of papers, children's school art projects, sheet music, letters, medical records from a difficult illness in the family...these things all had collected and gotten stuck in this space-- and needed sorting and systems to make them manageable.
Over the course of a few sessions, we diligently worked together, discerning what was important to keep, what could be released either through donation, recycling or trash, and then tweaked the layout of the room to give her a more productive work station and space to play music...
We settled on a new paint color for the walls, but still kept the sunny yellow accent that was at the back of the bookcases as well as in a painting she wanted to highlight in the room.
With all the hard work of decluttering and planning and painting completed, we scheduled our INSTALL DAY (WOO HOO!) so that all the finishing touches could be put in place, pulling the room together and creating a special work and music space for my client.
Here's what the space looks like now: (cue the swell in the soundtrack! :)
With so much less STUFF in the space, we had room to add some really beautiful touches, like new lighting, new artwork for the walls, pretty containers for storage on the shelves...
and we put a new petite bookcase next to the piano so that her music could be categorized and be at just an arm's reach away when she needed it. A special wall-mounted bracket on the other side of the piano holds a saxophone at the ready as well.
With her workstation reoriented, the room feels more settled and welcoming, and she has more surface area for files and paperwork.
This project just made me so happy. I am so proud of the results -- and the peace & beauty we were able to put in place.
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