Fresh Vision

 

You know how one project…leads to another…leads to another…and so it goes? Let me tell you how it went in Shafferland this week.

                We had some work done at our house this summer, and one of the projects involved enlarging a window in our bedroom. The crew that changed out the window did a careful and fantastic job, but any such project is going to create marred paint, so we had to do some repairing/repainting. I was thankful that we had extra curtain panels leftover from our WillowBridge/Bluffton days, so we were able to add those to the space, but the change in the look of that room meant we needed to swap out some of the furniture that lived in there.

                We shopped the house, bringing in a couple of pieces that lived in other rooms, and we’ll be working for a few days yet to continue swapping things in rooms around the house until we are satisfied with how it all looks.

                Whenever we do projects like this, every little move on the chessboard of design awakens new ideas in me, and I don’t want to stop!

                Painting a wall and hanging a curtain…led to pulling in furniture shopped by the house. That led to pulling every single thing out of every single drawer in said pieces of furniture to organize, move, donate, or toss what we found. (There was way too much “THAT’S where that was!” during that adventure.)

                As I worked to organize with pauses to decorate, Ryan came through the room and said, “I love it that this room has fresh vision.”

                I love it that he said that.

                It’s the perfect explanation.

                Fresh vision for a space we love. Re-seeing things we have and also love and giving them a new home there.

                I read something recently that talked about the cost of the things we buy. Not just the price we pay for the actual item, but the cost for storing and maintaining things. I thought of it often as I organized and shuffled things from room to room. What things matter enough to stay? What things still show who we are? Which things no longer represent our style or story?

                Fresh vision.

                One thing leads to another in the worlds of organization and homemaking. We found so much life and joy in the work we did, and we are excited to keep bringing fresh vision to familiar spaces!