How to be inspired, not influenced
/Your home should both express and envelope you. Offer you a place, irrespective of size, to be relaxed, protected and reflected in your surroundings…
Read MoreExploring Design, Home, Art and Gardening since 2008. By Julia Atkinson-Dunn
Your home should both express and envelope you. Offer you a place, irrespective of size, to be relaxed, protected and reflected in your surroundings…
Read MoreYour interpretation of ‘home’ is your personal creative right.
For all those that quake in their boots at choosing the “right” paint colour, dining room chairs or even bed linen with the ache of wondering if it is “cool” and “now” – it’s time to REALLY let all that go.
Despite the fact you bury yourself in tidal waves of inspiration each night via your phone and magazine pile, it’s YOUR cool and YOUR now that matters.
Let what’s going on outside, influence what’s going on inside….
Read MoreArt is food for the soul and a visual treasure that becomes part of your “home”, wherever that might be.
A piece of art to me, is something with a story. Either attached to its subject matter or the person who created it.
Read MorePlants will improve any space. Fact.
They add texture, they add oxygen (See! Even health benefits!) they are affordable, always changing and inject substance to any room. When cared for they can outlive pets and fill you with satisfaction with every successful flowering or new shoot.
Modern homes are filled with manmade, flat surfaces, sharp corners and so so so often; a monochromatic colour palette. Consider plants to be a living artwork that can subtly break this up and even compliment it, offering you shape and form plus a soft hit of colour (yes, it will likely be green.)
My “stuff” offers me both a three dimensional photo album AND a way for me to evoke the comforting, textural, eclectic vibe I like to live in.
And this has nothing to do with who owns the roof over my head….
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