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Need How To on those string gardens please!

Beautiful! I love your sewing corner and the terrarium in the living room

Your collection of art really rocks that place! What a great home!

Oh! Once I read that you raided the yiayia textiles, all was explained. My style is just like yours and I, too, have much from my yiayias...and things from Papouli too.

Beautiful home!

It has everything to do with how to fix your design problems. Read it again:

"When you work on your home, you are working on yourself."

You can design a space that welcomes guests, family and your own self, or you can design one that's hostile. One that frees your soul, or one that freezes it.

What a great post to find! I originally made the jump just so that I could rage against the constant misquoting of that poem, but then I was caught by the insightful metaphors of fences and walls. Just what I needed tonight. Thank you!

For us parents, it's just another room in our house. For the child, it's their studio apartment (minus the kitchen). I let my kids set the theme of their "apt" just to let them be who they were. I bought them both kinds of supposedly gendered toys and they revealed themselves anyway. My oldest was much girlier than I ever was, and my youngest was a techie from early on.
So my oldest loved her dolls, whether princesses, Barbies or thrift store pre-loved generic ones. She also loved the trucks (which became limousines for her dolls), legos (which became the Red Family, Blue Family etc), and all toys went through her imagination to come out girly. Now her first daughter is All Princess, and she's waiting for the baby to declare herself.
My youngest built with Legos and used Barbie dolls to make overpasses and bridges in her constructions. Her decor now? Tech. All Tech.

And Totoro

First- LOL at words on the wall feeling like walking into a self help book!

Second- If you love it, live with it

Third- I'm midcentury myself, so I decorate with pieces from the late 1800's. Like bureaus and desks that are strong, old furniture with drawers that still slide painlessly open and shut.

Books? I read them, and then reread them, and keep the ones I love. (which are WAY too many, btw)

Decor styles? I love airy Swedish, spare Japanese, industrial loft, cluttered cottage, and Hollywood regency.

But my home is great-granny chic combined with global eclectic. So I'll visit YOUR house and appreciate YOUR style, and you can come have tea with me in mine.

In my last apt, which had 15 windows all looking out on landscaped ponds with ducks and herons and fountains and turtles....I spent most of my time in the room with a window on to the parking lot!
My friends called it the Opium Den because of my pink, orange, gold and red color scheme. Inside those silky curtained windows, with the hot colored kilim rug and lots of red Ikea things, I was either on the computer or watching TV on the computer.
My lovely, airy, roomy living room with the fireplace and the plants was mainly for the cats to use to watch the ducks, the herons, the turtles....

There are no fans in the bathrooms! Never thought to check that since it's in the building code.
also, the wonderful location on the plaza in the middle of my U shaped complex gives me the feeling of living in a storefront. The "private" patio is nothing more than a change of pavement in front of my apt. It's hard to keep the shades open and feel like I'm not on display.
as are any unwashed dishes or clean laundry on the dining table....

40's? I sat and squirmed on these in school in the 50's and 60's!

Have fun with them. I know they're cool for people who didn't suffer boring classes in them.