Final month on Wit & Delight, our theme was about attending to know your personal style. I selected February’s theme as a pure subsequent step, because it’s a subject that’s a lot simpler to discover when you’re actually clear on how you define your personal style.
This February, our theme is about focusing solely on what you like, in life and significantly because it pertains to design.
I discover myself returning to this concept loads nowadays—putting the vast majority of my deal with issues I like. This method elements into how I spend my days, who I spend my time with, the issues I select to convey into my dwelling, and a lot extra.
What we love is an enormous expression of who we’re as individuals. Determining the latter is a lifelong endeavor, however the former is somewhat simpler to find out.
Relating to design, what you like just isn’t solely about aesthetics—it’s additionally about operate. It’s about parts like weight, texture, and scale. It’s about how a cloth wears over time—whether or not it’s simple to maintain completely clear or whether or not it reveals its age. What you like is a mirrored image of your preferences past your favourite coloration or sample. That’s why I feel that is crucial filter to contemplate when figuring out what you convey into your private home. And it’s price noting that there’s a price to not working on this manner—a variety of extraneous baggage that weighs you down and doesn’t fulfill you.
It’s, in fact, not doable for each single factor in our properties to gentle our hearts up with pleasure. There might be objects which are solely for performance and items that symbolize a compromise with the opposite individuals in our dwelling. That’s okay. This concept is solely about instilling a special mindset—a recent lens via which we decide any design selections we make sooner or later.
Relating to design, what you like just isn’t solely about aesthetics—it’s additionally about operate. . . . That’s why I feel that is crucial filter to contemplate when figuring out what you convey into your private home.
This then begs the query: How do you know once you actually love one thing? It could look like an apparent reply, however it may be laborious to find out—and the sense of realizing presents otherwise for various individuals. It’s a solution I’ll dive into extra all through the month of February. For me, if I really love one thing—whether or not it’s a chunk of decor, a material, or a set of glassware—it’s not sufficient to easily admire it. I discover myself instinctively transferring towards it, wanting to the touch it and see it up shut. That bodily draw goes far past a fleeting sense of curiosity.
Within the realm of design, realizing what you like—and performing on that realizing in your decisions—can also be about longevity. When you may study to belief and embrace the method of the hunt, moderately than choose up the very first thing that catches your eye, it’s much more possible the lifespan of the items you convey into your private home might be a lot lengthier.
My hope is that this mindset will assist you to discover extra delight within the areas in your house the place you spend probably the most time. That you just’ll higher perceive the right way to determine what you actually love and really feel okay letting go of what you don’t.
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Kate is at the moment studying to play the Ukulele, a lot to the despair of her husband, children, and canines. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
