Infusing Heart into the Hearth of the Home
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Article by: Carolina Fernandez "There is no reason, either in prose or in rhyme, why a whole house , Wicker Dining Room Furniture should not be a poem." Ella Church Rodman With any luck, your Mother's Day weekend was as wonderful as was mine. As one day cannot hold the full celebration, the "holiday"Ā¯ has been elevated"ā€¯in my family anyway"ā€¯to the entire weekend. It starts on Thursday night and extends 'til midnight on Sunday. Extra lounging in an excusable indulgence, as is extra chocolate, extra newspaper perusing, and extra sleep. And if that's not quite enough, in this section of Connecticut where we make our home, , Spring Decorating Tips kitchen , Beds In A Bag Make You An Instant Designing Pro! tours have been perfectly calibrated to Mother's Day "weekend,"Ā¯ and so I became happily transplanted to two different towns"Ā¦with a third this coming week"Ā¦all in the name of "Happy Mother's Day."Ā¯ Call , Can Bamboo Flooring Really Help Save The Worlds’ Environment? it wonderful coincidence or perfect event planning: celebrating the hearth gets to us mothers' hearts whether we like it or not. These tours, quite spectacular in every imaginable way, go beyond the familiar house , Sectional Sofas tour offered by many historical societies or trusts for historic preservation in cities across the country. They zoom in specifically on the most honored room , Venetian Blinds in the house: the kitchen. , Digital Globes Architects and kitchen designers , Wrought Iron Baker’s Rack: Beautiful and Elegant stand for the duration of the tour, beaming with pride over the perfectly appointed rooms , A Choice Bed Spread To Enhance Your Bed Decor they have created for their clients. As they should. Most of the work is exquisite and deserves recognition. And recognize we patrons did in full force. Attended by hundreds of would-be renovators scourging the tour for ideas, curiosity seekers anxious to see what the next-door neighbor has been up to, professionals simply checking out the competition, and HGTV and Food , The Soul of Rustic Design Network junkies by the truckloads, the kitchens , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting on tour scratch our collective itch. As a wannabe kitchen , Seat Covers renovator (my oven is falling apart, my fridge door , How to Build Your Own Cuckoo Clock hardly stays shut and my stove is on its last leg), I had a strong desire to see what folks are doing in kitchens , The Arts & Crafts Movement for Beginners around my neck of the woods. , Interior Design: Make Your Place Look Bigger Granted, Fairfield County, Connecticut can be a rather daunting neck to grasp; the most difficult part is simply getting my brain wrapped around the scope of the kitchens , Home Design Tips on tour. For we're not talking merely ripping up vinyl flooring , What You Need to Know About Kitchen Colors and replacing it with hardwood here. We're talking six burner professional ranges, imported marble countertops, double Sub Zero's, handmade tile , Home Furnishing backsplashes and handpainted friezes. Copper , Can Bamboo Flooring Really Help Save The Worlds’ Environment? countertops and double-wide limestone farm , Window Coverings Guide - Decorate Your Home With Window Coverings sinks. Trips to Europe"ā€¯with interior designer , Spring Decorating Tips in tow"ā€¯in search of that perfect armoire. Or vacations spent trolling through the Paris flea market for the grandest chandelier. One of the homes , Glider Rocker Cushions-All You Will Ever Need to Know undertook a four-year renovation; granted, its 10,000 square foot size required a committed team of experts in order to eventually pull it off. But its final result"ā€¯impressive, certainly"ā€¯boggled my mind. Now, there's certainly nothing wrong with any of these indulgences. We can call , Preserve Evergreen Memories it "protecting our investment"Ā¯ or "infusing our home , Decorating Arched And Transom Windows with beauty"Ā¯ or "doing careful research."Ā¯ The kitchens , Dining Chair Slipcovers – A Great Way to Impress Your Dinner Guests! on tour were, with few exceptions, veritable works of art. And as a visual artist, I appreciate the need for transformative beauty as much, if not more than, the next person. Indeed, my need to fill my kitchen , Spring Decorating Tips with things that I love, things that I find beautiful, , The Soul of Rustic Design is a highly motivating adventure for me. Ever in search of wonderful roosters or lamps or linens or candles: I'm almost always on the hunt. But as I tromped through house , Digital Globes after house, , Home Furnishing I remained inspired most by understatement, as always. By the antique and smallish house , The Everyday is Full of Designs that didn't scream "Look at me!"Ā¯ Which spoke to me through its quietly unassuming authenticity. Of wonderful proportions, clean color , Interior Painting Ideas Guaranteed to Bring Your Walls Back to Life! and organic , Desktop Wallpaper materials. Of beautiful, , The Arts & Crafts Movement for Beginners yet simple, fabrics. I like things that are gorgeous. But I like them to come at me in the same way that nature , Where to Buy a Discount Platform Bed does. "The earth , The Versatility Of An Air Mattress - Affordable And Alternative Sleep Solutions laughs in flowers, , Bed Rugs and Beyond "Ā¯ Emerson wrote, and certainly their beauty is inescapable for those willing to slow down long enough to fully appreciate it. But flowers , The Thrill of Triple Bunk Beds don't scream. They softly persuade. They whisper "Come hither."Ā¯ As I go about the initial steps towards a complete kitchen , A Touch of Elegance with Lighting re-do, I hope I can translate my need for organic , Interior Design: Make Your Place Look Bigger beauty to the designer , Sectional Sofas with whom I will eventually work side-by-side. I hope my desire for open shelving, a rather common solution in kitchens , Desktop Wallpaper across Europe, overrides designer's dreams of expansive (and expensive) full-scale cabinetry. I hope that my desire for a glass-doored refrigerator, one which I've held for more than two decades, is not met with skepticism by well-intentioned planners who worry that children's fingerprints and messy living habits will intrude on the assumptive need for impeccable order and cleanliness. I hope that my desire to impart my own stamp, through my collections formed over nearly a quarter century of marriage, will not be met with a "professional's"Ā¯ desire for something less artsy. Or for something that appeals to his or her aesthetic, rather than to mine. For the one thing I had hoped to see more of in these wonderfully designed kitchens , The Everyday is Full of Designs was the owner's handprint. Or that of their children. I would have loved to have seen a crumb or two. Or some suggestion that the owners actually cooked there. That dough was, on some days, actually rolled out on the marble countertop and that vegetables , Bed In A Bag - A Fantastic Solution To Your Interior Decorating Needs were stir-fried on one of those six burners. Indeed, the phrase "working kitchen"Ā¯ has evolved in order to distinguish between those kitchens , Cottage Style Home Decorating: 10 Tips for Memorable Memorabilia which are designed to be merely beautiful , Sofa Beds versus those in which homeowners actually cook. I'd like to think that some kitchens , Contemporary Glass Art stand"ā€¯from decades of use or from recent renovation"ā€¯where roasts are basted and hearts are repaired. Where bills are paid and where lunchboxes are packed. Where we value the notion of nurturing: through meals and through conversation. With preparation along with presentation. Few things tug at our heartstrings as do our kitchens. , Wrought Iron Baker’s Rack: Beautiful and Elegant We have long recognized them as the hearth of the home. , Floors To Suit Your Lifestyle and Budget - Part 2 Let's just hope that in the real estate frenzy"ā€¯as well as in the overly-consumptive age in which we find ourselves"ā€¯that we keep the heart in the hearth of our homes. , Bed In A Bag - A Fantastic Solution To Your Interior Decorating Needs And that we are able to translate it aesthetically so that our loved ones can benefit. Via fabulous aromas or soothing patterns and color. , Venetian Blinds Through folk art collections or through hand-crafted dinner plates. Through pottery or placemats. For therein lies the challenge. As always. Infusing the hearth with heart.  |
  
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