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Post by mouse on Jul 15, 2009 8:35:19 GMT -5
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! I realize that I was not clear on one thing: I have already repainted all my walls (except the bedroom, which has yet to be done) in the happy new colours I want. Right now my whole home is a lovely palette of yellow and green. The colour I chose for the bedroom is salmon pink, and I am very eager to have it all finished. I am waiting to hear from my friend AFW, who does the painting for me in his spare time (all the money goes toward his buy-a-house fund). ~Mouse
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Post by hopehope on Jul 15, 2009 22:20:44 GMT -5
my apologies to everyone for the typo-heavy last post. it was in a mad rush on the library computer as they were shutting it down -- what I actually suggest, before all the stuff we said -- is making a sketch -- like, in pencil, so you can change it. The bookcase here, the armchair there -- no, there-- give your self as real as possible a picture of what you want. anyway-- I did realize you've been having your home painted-- so I assumed happy colors were already resident. today, I finally got the hooks I need to put up the curtain rods to hang my beautiful translucent curtains -- also -- i still have lots of clog and stuff to get rid of. It's just that I can't live without beauty - the other thing about visualization -- the more Present Time you can make it in your thoughts -- not I wish I was thin, but I am thin - like that -- the more it is able to actualize -- let us know. sounds like you have a super head start ---
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Post by hopehope on Jul 18, 2009 21:44:27 GMT -5
further inspired by mouse's vision --
I picked up a little lamp (literally) a day or so after I read her -- and now set it up in front of the new ac -- on the window sill --- with its 60 watt bulb (low light -- better than I usually do) and replaced its broken shade with a rice paper one that I rescued and trimmed -- it makes an intimate nook of what was a passageway -- so swell -- kept sneaking peeks --
And -- it means I removed the blue milk crate that was the FIRST PIECE OF FURNITURE I ever had in this house -- 19 years ago.
thinking -- if someone lived with me -- one of us could hie off to this tiny spot for private time and not feel so in each other's head in this tiny space.
thinking-- if I still had my zafu, i could make it my meditation spot -? maybe. it's tiny.
but I appreciate.
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Post by Bizzy on Jul 19, 2009 4:22:17 GMT -5
Mouse I have seen what you have done with your house and it is amazing to me because you have used your space pretty wisely and kept your sense of individual style. I think you got some good suggestions here. A long time ago I read a story about a lady with a nasty dirty house who recieved a bouquet of flowers. She didn't have a place to put them.( I can SO relate to this!) She cleaned off just enough of her kitchen table for the flowers. They looked so pretty there and everything else looked so awful. So she cleaned up more stuff around the table until just that place- around her table- looked like she wanted it to, like the lovely person inside of her would chose for it to be. And the story goes- that she just kept going - slowly till her place was more like how she felt inside. I love sitting on my front porch at my little table. The porch is a mess of clutter and left over projects and rubbish I have meant to throw out - that never made it past the porch. A neighbor brought me some plant clippings and some abalone shells a few days back. I didn't know where to put them. But I thought I knew how I would like my table to look and feel. I took the filthy table into the yard and scrubbed it down ( which then made me think the chairs needed a good scrubbing too) and staring chucking some of the stuff on the proch and organizing the rest to where it was at least presentable and not in the way or an eyesore.. Not where I want it to be- I have no idea where to put it yet- but so that this place where I love to sit- have sat even though it has been a mess- -- feels more like it fits the person I am inside. I planted some hens and chicks I had sitting on my carprot into the shells and put the plant clippings into pretty vases instead of pickle jars and surrounded them with the shells. I put some placemats on the table and I swept the porch and knocked down the cobwebs and sprayed bug stuff so the spiders won't come back. The rest of my house is still a mess in progress but I can go out to my porch with a glass of ice tea and feel good. Lots of people pass by while walkiing their dogs-and I don't feel ashamed of having them see me there. I actually moved two big plants that I hid behind.That is such a little thing but it made me feel so much better and made me want to do more of that to the rest of my house. All because of some pretty plant clippings and a few pretty shells. And what I am learning here.So much of what I think I need- I already have - I often just don't know how to make it the way I would like it I see that is what you have done with so much of your place. = So keep working on it. Even if it isn't exaclty what you want. You can always change it. I have crap astroturf and wobbly stairs- and igly black iron rails that don't line up right- but I still feel better about my porch and might even invite a passing neighbor to sit and have a glass of tea with me. That is a big deal. I am going to keep my porch nice- even if there is a lot of Squalor in the rest of my house. I thought I had to do the most important things first- but I am finding that I really need some beauty around me- maybe just in a few places- not just to make things functional but also to make me feel like a certain place is really me and honor the person I am inside - The person I have ignored and neglected for so long. I love your house = keep at it.
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