The house I live in is not beautiful by any stretch of the imagination but over the years I have created it into a beautiful home. I have filled it with beautiful items I have made and or inexpensively bought over time. With a little imagination you can make an area lacking in any visual attraction beautiful. I believe our home is an area where you can express yourself even when its not your own and this is certainly what I love to do. I am of course lucky the man does not have any desire for interior decorating at all - I am free to go as shabby chic crazy as I like!
Over the last few weeks I have turned my focus to my horrible kitchen in desperate attempt to make it just a little pretty. Its an ugly space with orange lino flooring that would look better placed on a less glamourous version of 'That 70s Show', cupboards with absolutely zero personality at all and one blue and 1 grey pipe running along the edge of the cupboards on the floor so that we can have a dishwasher - the man's ever practicality...
My mission - to turn this space into an area I actually like and maybe love. I love baking and cooking so this area needs to be practical as well as pretty. I have already added some new tea towels and oven gloves and one or two kitchen trinkets but today I am going to attempt to make 2 blinds or valances. I have never made curtains and have much fear that going anywhere near this activity will automatically turn me into my mother. So with the memories of my mother sewing all the curtains in my childhood home, measurements in hand and shopping list stored on the 'notes app' I shall bravely attempt this task gripping firmly onto my twenties at the same time.
No comments:
Post a Comment