by Miv Watts | Feb 25, 2024 | Inspirations
Blank 6 Staying off trend by focusing on innate choices while decorating your home can have several benefits. Trends come and go, but innate choices tend to have a timeless quality. By focusing on classic aesthetics and incorporating personal preferences, you create a long-lasting and timeless design that won’t feel outdated or cliché. Personal expression: Decorating your home with innate choices allows you to express your individuality and personality. You have the freedom to choose colors, patterns, textures, and furniture that resonate with you, creating a space that truly reflects who you are. Emotional connection: Your choices often have personal significance and evoke emotional connections. Whether it’s including sentimental items or selecting decor that brings back fond memories, a home decorated with personal choices can feel more meaningful and create a stronger emotional bond with the space. Flexibility and adaptability: By staying off trend, you can design a more flexible and adaptable space. Trends can quickly become outdated, requiring frequent updates. On the other hand, by focusing on innate choices, you can create a versatile design foundation that can be easily modified and updated as your preferences change over time. Increased satisfaction: Decorating with innate choices can lead to a greater sense of satisfaction and contentment with your living space. It’s more likely that you’ll feel comfortable and happy in a home that reflects your own style and preferences rather than just following current trends. Remember: while trends can provide inspiration, it’s essential to strike a balance and incorporate innate choices to create a home that truly feels like your own. Buying an old house and restoring it can...
by Miv Watts | Feb 25, 2024 | Inspirations
Blank 6 Introduction: In today’s fast-paced world, taking the time to create a beautiful and thoughtfully decorated home can feel like a luxury. However, the practice of slow and discerning decoration emphasizes the importance of quality over quantity, intentionality over trendiness, and patience over instant gratification. In our retreats, we’ll explore the art of slow and discerning decoration and how it can transform your living space into a reflection of your personal style and values. 1. Simplify Your Space Slow and discerning decoration often starts with studying the pieces in your home that inspire an emotion . A memory of an event, a loved one, or a particularly memorable period in your life. Simplify your living space by decluttering and adopting a less-is-more approach. This allows you to focus on the essential elements that truly enhance your home’s aesthetics. Emphasize quality over quantity, investing in timeless pieces that will stand the test of time. 2. Consider Your Lifestyle: When decorating your home, consider your lifestyle and how you use each space. Slow decoration encourages thoughtful choices that align with your daily activities and routines. Opt for furniture and decor that not only looks beautiful but also serves a purpose and enhances functionality. 3. Invest in Sustainable Materials: Slow decoration emphasizes environmental consciousness and sustainability. Choose furniture and decor made from sustainable materials like reclaimed wood, bamboo, or recycled materials. Look for products that are locally sourced and manufactured to minimize carbon emissions associated with transportation. 4. Personalize with Meaningful Art and Decor: Displaying art and decor that holds personal meaning is an integral part of slow and discerning decoration....
by Miv Watts | Dec 2, 2020 | Inspirations
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by Miv Watts | Mar 27, 2017 | Inspirations
2017 Byron Bay Hinterland: Another year at Wombat Hollow. After an exhausting journey, during which, as always we discuss the possibility of selling up and moving to somewhere a little easier on the jet- lag. It literally takes a week to get over that 24 hour flight. Anyway, we arrived to the usual week of sleeping, waking, re-arranging, washing, cleaning, looking for tools etc. The hens obligingly helped us through this by laying three fresh eggs a day. We were one guinea fowl down, which really upset me as I love the little beauties and since we have had them we haven’t seen one snake. I tell a lie…the python was curled around a verandah post the morning after our arrival. But he is too big to be hassled by the Guineas and too slow to eat one, so I can only assume we have a fox or a bird of prey visiting. The large Goanna will eat the hen’s eggs if we don’t collect them early enough but shows no interest in the birds themselves. Anyway after a good week of complaining and moaning about tenants absconding/breaking various utensils and tools, we settled into our usual habits. The Fishmonger placed his old garden chair down by the creek for his dusk vigils. He likes to take a glass of Chablis and his binoculars and sit watching the Platypus playing in the water. This year there were a whole family of Platypi. The Fishmonger was naturally overjoyed. The Koala, lately considerably bereft of eucalyptus, due to a cyclone felling the largest tree on the property, has taken to eating camphor leaves,...
