One Room Challenge- Week 2
It’s moving week! It’s actually closing day on our Fayetteville home today. Tomorrow (at 3am) we’ll head out towards our new home, and our new lives in Frankfort. I’m so ready!
So where are we headed? What are we going to tackle?
If you’ll recall this is our new living room, and our One Room Challenge. My plan is to work with a lot of our existing “stuff”, but create something new, and fresh, and global in this space.
I have this memory of when I was a little girl. It feels very dreamlike. We went to visit my Great-Uncle in New York or New Jersey. Somewhere up North I know, but he lived in this house in the country. This dreamy stone house- Like some small Manor you’d see in the English countryside.
My Great-Uncle was a botanist in Africa for most of his working life, although my father swears up and down that was a cover and he was really a spy. Regardless of whatever his profession was he lived an incredibly colorful life full of adventure, and his home was full of curiosities, and mementoes of his life.
I remember big game trophies, zebra skin rugs, and I have a memory of a tiger skin rug that I buried my hands in in awe. His home was dark, but not scary. Intimate. It smelled like leather, and books, and pipe tobacco. There is something about this place and memory that has always stuck with me.
I remember his conservatory on the back of his house full of orchids and African Violets, which is perhaps where my orchid obsession came from.
I’ve had conversations with my mother about Uncle Warren’s house, and she is always astounded by the details I can recall. It’s funny how some memories imprint on you so deeply. That memory of my Great-Uncle’s home is my jumping off point for this space. Here are some of the rooms that have that same feel to me.
I want this room to feel cozy, and intimate but also like a multi-cultural celebration of art and beauty. I’m incredibly excited for this space to come together.
XO,
-Victoria