Rooms I absolutely love!
A visual collection of rooms to inspire beauty in our homes, with a warm embrace of the mess and chaos it takes to create it.
Happy new year! I feel like I am still in that foggy headiness, where my days all blur into one. Both my heart and body are full to the brim with love, cheese and excessive alcohol and chocolate. My mum was here from the UK, for our first Christmas, in our new home. It has been a long four years since I last saw her and 10 years since I shared a Christmas with her. Typing this sentence gives me goosebumps. The significance of it all, is yet to permanently imprint into my memory. She left on New Year’s Eve and I have felt quite numb since. A mixture of grief and exhaustion from moving and hosting. It seems the duality of emotions that became a theme for me in 2023, will remain persistent in 2024.
The ‘turn-key’ euphoric moment, that has become synonymous with social media interior reveals, didn’t happen for us. Boxes still surround me as I type. Art works and framed photographs propped up against walls, wires hanging down from ceilings in some rooms, due to extended delivery periods. In-between the demands of summer holiday parenting and working from home, we are slowly unpacking one box at a time, editing as we go. Pausing to reflect and reminisce on where we found the pewter candlesticks, vintage platters and mementos from our past lives. Cooing at photographs of the boys as babies and toddlers. Grieving how fast those years have gone. So, whilst I am still pulling myself together, here are some beautiful spaces to escape to. I hope they inspire you to create a little beauty wherever you are, with whatever you have. Adding life through indoor plants or flowers is one of the easiest and most uplifting things you can do. Or creating a little vignette somewhere, using a stack of books or a small table, adding some of your favourite objects and placing it somewhere you’ll see it regularly, will help spark those special memories and emotions within your home.
There is so much beauty in the undone, in the mess and the chaos of it all.
Enjoy the process…
I hope you enjoyed this month’s visual collection. Have you moved house recently, how did you find it? What was the first thing you unpacked to make it feel like home?
With love,
Lis x
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Loose wires aka the bane of my excistence, haha. Never know how to hide them best. Oh, and I should really stack my books more! It always looks so homey! 🥰 btw, I wish you a happy 2024!
Happy New Year Lisa. So lovely to spend Christmas with your mum but also lovely to now relax after all the entertaining. I don’t cope well in disorder either, we moved here 12 years ago and I never want to do it again! Just having our downstairs shower room gutted and renovated had me jittery the whole time it was underway. But I do love the result and my gorgeous studio that I moved into when it was finished 💛 I all these rooms you’ve shared, they feel like home 💛