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Monday, June 2, 2008
What makes a room you?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three weeks into my new home, I’m spending a great deal of time planning my décor, i.e. which colors I want to pop where, how I want each room to feel, how each room will relate to the other spaces… Most importantly, I want my house to be beautiful yet deeply personal, and that’s not just the stuff of great furniture.
Perhaps despite my apparent taste for luxury furniture, I have a thing for pigs. (Stay with me.) Maybe it’s because my grandfather back in West Virginia has hogs on his farm, or because a childhood family friend gave me a cross-stitched pig named “Katie,” but I can’t help myself when I find pig garden ornaments or antique swine prints. Heck, I even bought a porcelain platter with a pig relief! I recognize my obsession borders on tacky, but I smile every time I see the pig pieces I’ve sprinkled throughout my home.
(Doesn’t this little stone and resin guy from Ballard Designs make you smile?)
What do you think makes a room beautiful and personal? Is it your grandmother’s quilt draped over an armchair ? Stylishly framed family photographs? Fresh flowers from your garden? What do you do in your home for an instant style lift that says “you”?
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