Redecorating!

9/1/2020

I love to decorate. I'm forever redoing rooms, moving furniture around, making new curtains, pillows, whatever strikes me. My husband long ago made his peace with the fact that our home would be in a constant state of flux (early in our marriage, he was working nights, thus sleeping during the day, and woke up one day to find that I had completely rearranged the living room while he was asleep).

Because I'm constantly redoing, adding, and rearranging, my look has always been what can only be described as "eclectic". Always a mix of styles, colors, materials. But in the time of Covid, I've obviously been home a lot more, and had time to really look around and create a style for my living room.

My initial design aesthetic was "Victorian witch who lives in a cottage in the woods". I enlisted my mother's aid in obtaining the perfect items for my look, and when I described to her what I was going for, she asked me if I'd ever seen the movie Practical Magic (have I ever seen Practical Magic? I mean, who did she think she was talking to? Of course I've seen Practical Magic. My life goal is to become one of the aunts from that movie). She said "Like the aunts house in Practical Magic, right?" Yes!! That's a much better reference with far more source material than "Victorian witch who lives in a cottage in the woods"!

This kind of aesthetic is really best pulled off with thrifted or antique pieces, so I've been living on Facebook marketplace. I did purchase a new sofa (it'll be here Friday!), but otherwise I plan on buying everything else secondhand. It's slow going, but what I'm so pleased with what I've done so far, it'll definitely be worth the wait in the end!