Inspired by Houses New and Old…
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It struck me while writing a welcome note for the new owners, to go with a bottle of wine and trio of sand dollars…
Leaving a house you’ve built and turned into a home is a bit like turning a completed book over to readers. They’ll inhabit the rooms you’ve created, survey the views you’ve designed, follow the pathways of the floorplan. But, they’ll bring their own personalities to those spaces, which will make their experience of the home different. They’ll arrange their own furniture, they may even repaint. Their new favorite spots might not have been yours. They MIGHT even build on or renovate… Your old home isn’t really yours any more, it’s theirs.
Now I have a new project, a blank page of a home with bland American cheese-colored walls, builder lighting fixtures, and curtainless windows. We’ve determined the purpose of each room, placed some of the bigger pieces of furniture, figured out how to operate most of the appliances. Now we’re contemplating paint colors. We’ve got to turn this place into an enjoyable, exciting and functional home with good flow. It’s not unlike writing a book…
Photo by R. Wynn-Nolet
Do you like decorating new spaces or beginning a new manuscript? Do you find it exciting or daunting?
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