Pleasant Arrangements

 

There are touches to a room that make it so pleasant. The surfaces of side boards, tables, drawers shelves, when they are arranged with pleasant things like a vase, a candle, a book, flowers, a picture,  a lamp, always a lamp, it creates a pleasant atmosphere in the room. It need not be a Ming vase, but simple, attractive and well placed. These are from my favorite home.

A Home in the Country

 With the coldest weekend this winter, I was with my dearest friend in the country. The home is warmed up with a wood fire, throws over the chairs and lots of conversation. We walked in the snow, visited a friend and tasted some Vodka flavored with a blade of summer grass, a drink that warms you from within.

 A country home has many textures, but this home has the warmth of wood, textiles that are embroidered, rugs hand knotted and throws hand woven. The pottery is hand thrown that show the potters thumb print and the ridges from the clay being spun on the wheel.

Vases of fresh flowers make the room redolent with fragrance and bulbs are sprouting in pots, promising blossoms in a few weeks.

A delightful weekened and with no service for iPhone, no email, twitter, blogs, it was another world.

Home

Yesterday started the new interior and accessories exhibition Home,  I went to visit and saw the new light, colors and designs that will be in stores this year, some old favorites and some new versions of lights, I like the block of wood a lamp base, the big and bare light bulb is bigger and the Plumen curved and elegant fluorescent lamp was prominently displayed.

Colorful glass ware and inside lampshades:

and an updated version of a side table. A good show, also showing there is Heart Home Magazine.

A Special Home

What makes a home? A place to live, relax and enjoy time with loved ones? Why do we decorate our homes and make them beautiful?

This past week, having spent the time with my mother, I always walk into her house and feel it is a true home, comfortable, beautiful, well arranged and so many things well thought out. It is comfortable in the sense that there is always a table at your elbow to place a drink and a book, there is always enough light to read but never glaring or overhead. It is comfortable in that how the furniture is positioned it is best for conversation and sharing. There is color and there is light.

It is my favorite house, my favorite home and I always feel best here.