Find Yourself Home

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Mar 29

Outside, spring sun and spring rain have fallen in turn; inside, notes, sketches, concepts, and ideas have fallen to scratch paper, computer screen, and drafting board. Paper, pencils, eraser, brush, scale ruler, the accoutrements for my creative process scatter across my workspace. I’ve nearly lost track of day and time. The boxes of pet food that were delivered yesterday still sit by the front door, the seed order sits in the shopping cart, dust bunnies multiply in the corners. Nellie finally gives up on an afternoon hike, and goes to nap on a bed upstairs.

This is the creative process. This is the birthing of what has been slowly forming, growing for the past few weeks. This is the vision coming to life for a home in Montana and the people who live there. Raw space becoming a sanctuary for the experiences and memories of life.

With every house I’ve been privileged to work on, I’ve been amazed at what happens when clients reach for the soul of their home. When they silence the chatter of trends and the idea of instant gratification, choosing instead to pause, to understand their lifestyle and discover their values and aesthetic; when they realize, above all, that they want to welcome themselves home. Their trust in the collaboration that brings their dream to life and in the team that helps them get from here to there opens a synergy that is palpable. The result? Structure and function, resonance and poetry.

Gracious, it’s a beautiful thing.

Loves? We can all begin. We can all reach for the souls of our homes.

Go ahead.

A good question to ask is How do I want my home to feel? An even better question ask is How do I want to feel in my home?

Go ahead, write it down. Listen to it. Answer it. Then answer it again. And again. Then, go here. Then here, here, and here. And back again. Let it develop, let it mature.

There. Find yourself there. Find yourself home.

(And, if, in the middle of it all, dust bunnies multiply in your corners, you’ll know you’ve been up to very good things.)

If you’d like help in creating a soulful home, I’d love to work with you. Email me: carmella@carmellarayone.com