A Place of Peace

Being at home should be an oasis. A place you want to be. If you have clutter, you will likely feel the same way inside - disheveled. One of the reasons I love to decorate is because you end up with something different from where you started. It’s an opportunity to start fresh. Paint with a new palette.

I have come to realize my passion for decorating is as much about peace as it is work. Perhaps better said, is that "after you work, you get peace". There is excitement in the prospect of sitting in a chair looking around and having a sense of pride, that it is all yours! It’s like taking inventory of what matters.

The things around us reflect who we are. It’s an outside painting of what is really going on inside of each one of us. Think of the homes that you have been in. I recently went to someone’s home whom I had never met before and wow did it tell a story. It was minimalist and elegant. It caused a rapture in my mind of the how it came to be. Simple, white. A large mushroom light took over the new kitchen table below. The rooms beckoned. The lady of the house was just as simple and elegant as her home. Come to find out the design was done by their daughter years prior. She was in an architecture class and had a school project to design a house and then they made it! Spectacular angles, levels and windows that overlooked the bay. I could imagine how a bowl of Granny Smith apples would look surrounded by all of the white.

I love that form and function were married in this home. The kitchen is a gourmet's dream. Steel fixtures and appliances cooled the surfaces but there was something that cried out - make brownies! I knew that wherever I turned there would be something that had a purpose and a plan and by the way - flare! I bet the spatulas were something you could even hang on the wall.

I think the best way to get to that inner peace place with your surroundings is to pick what you love. Start and don’t stop. Don’t buy things because they match – you did that in your 20’s. Buy it, use it and love it! Inner peace starts with you.

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