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[zirconium]

I am actually in the thick of replacing a rotting deck with more house, but this quote in the March issue of Southern Living spoke to me anyway:

People get caught up in grandeur, forgetting that the best times they ever had in their lives were in tiny spaces with low ceilings and the best things ever said to them were whispered. When I design a house, I start with the site to figure out what elements you want to engage with emotionally and spiritually. Then I consider the communion of people and objects and create containment around them. My consideration is always what it's going to feel like together. Only lastly do I concern myself with what a house looks like. The only real value of building a house is to increase the territory of your own heart. The only real truth is to create something that will settle your spirit.

-- Bobby McAlpine

Comments

[okrablossom]

This made me go request 3 kitchen design books from the library.

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This made me go request 3 kitchen design books from the library. <shakes fist at you!/> :)

[zirconium]

Heh. General or specific yearning?

[okrablossom]

Dreaming. With hope of eventually tangibility. We bought this house thinking how great that the kitchen's a pit so we can have it redone the way we want instead of like every other updated house for a mile! and then I stopped having an actual income because health. So no renovation.