It's been wet...heavy-raining-wet here...and although I'm not a fan of soggy, or damp, or endless rain for that matter...I am a HUGE fan of watered gardens, and opportunities to hang out in my leggings, on a Sunday afternoon, on the sofa, watching movie classics with my kids!
So that is exactly what we did...
Throughout a weekend of lovely big family lunches, fantastic football {read soccer} and a thanks-to-the-weather watered garden, I have thought muchly about our upcoming reno's.
I've pondered and thought all weekend about how we *use* our home, and how we *use* our spaces within our home?
It's a busy household of five, plus one lovely, constant dog who keeps me busy sorting our dark floor boards and endless ball scuffs!
This thinking has then led me to stop *pinning* like a frenzied mad woman...and to cease tearing out of my huge collection of magazines, every image that remotely makes me smile.
I am now reserving both those things for images that make my heart actually leap just a little!
I'm really wanting to gather those images that we can truly use in our renovation *mood board*.
It's early days...but my *keep-pile* of old mag images, is decidedly less than it used to be- I put it down to simple *focus*.
It feels good to have a focus. I'm all for the visual in my life- the moments that impact that sense of mine that seems to outweigh all others. But to have a focus is proving to push me a little harder to consider all the elements, not purely visual, of a potential renovation.
I'm liking it!
I'm also having to face a fact I've long known- that my taste is ridiculously eclectic...
A friend in England once summed up our big old country house as a *random mix of all the things I loved, style irrelevant, that seemed to work in perfect visual harmony together*.
I've thought about that so, so, so many times over the years...and I always come back to the thought that if you truly love what you surround yourself with, surely those things work together.
Industrial, coastal, vintage, modern, indulgent and practical- absolutely our home is a home because of the total coming together of all these things...and each of them makes our home just that...*our home*.
Not a magazine home, not your home, not a Pinterest home- *just* our home.
And that's perfect- for us...
So...with this
How do you fill your spaces? With what takes your heart...with a purpose...with focus?
And do you spend
I need to know- research, and some support to make me feel normal my friends! ;)
Hope you had a wonderful weekend- cheers to Monday!
Melissa x
