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greenstormI've been making cleaning progress on my home. I've been making it mine in a way I had not before: instead of letting the inside just be function, I've been making it fit me. This means that, well, Threshold has always felt like the inside of the dryad tree that was my first MU* building project long back. It's all wood inside, it's tall and arched with wooden pillars and columns inside it, the little loft balcony overlooks the inside and the loft bedroom overlooks the outside, just like sitting in branches. The basement is warm and snug and dark and full of food and comfort, like the hollow between tree roots in winter.
When I was young-young, maybe 8 or 10 or 12, I painted the inside of my bedroom and all my furniture with a cave-art motif: sponge and rag painting to make an uneven stone-like surface, then potato prints of cave art figurines (because I still wanted an interior-design, repeat-not-freehand feel rather than an actual cave feel). To some extend I'm picking up on that sort of thing here: hand-crafted walls that fit the theme. I'll only do it if I know I won't sell soon, but.
That would look like doing some hint of bark or woodgrain on the few feature walls and columns in here, maybe with stamps since those are a thing now. It probably will look like leafy/frondy/vine accents. It'll look like getting my actual art and some functional items up on display.
Part of this is the perennial issue of figuring out where all my stuff actually goes. I'm probably going to end up with a bunch more of the clear-storage-bin stacks that folks seem to be using nowadays. Definitely shelving was the first step, and I'm pretty ok there, but the next step is to arrange things on the shelves in a reasonable, findable, and efficient way. It's also to shelve the few closets that I have, and to carefully curate what's in hidden shelves, what's in the carport, and what's on the (many) shelves out in the open. This is a balance between aesthetics and frequency of use.
Anyhow, little oases of aerogardens and grow lights are starting to spring up. They're driven by my desire to plant things: I will not put seeds in a pot if there's not plenty of room under a grow light for them. So, up the grow lights go, each finding new spots after I robed their shelves from the pantry.
I used to have my plants all crowded up by windows under additional growlights as a supplement; I remember being awed by Josh's little spotlights on each plant, each on a timer, throughout his house when I first visited him. Now I'm putting little oases of light everywhere and his are all up against a window.
It's good. But I do need more places to put plants. Time to figure out how to effectively growlight my hanging plants.
When I was young-young, maybe 8 or 10 or 12, I painted the inside of my bedroom and all my furniture with a cave-art motif: sponge and rag painting to make an uneven stone-like surface, then potato prints of cave art figurines (because I still wanted an interior-design, repeat-not-freehand feel rather than an actual cave feel). To some extend I'm picking up on that sort of thing here: hand-crafted walls that fit the theme. I'll only do it if I know I won't sell soon, but.
That would look like doing some hint of bark or woodgrain on the few feature walls and columns in here, maybe with stamps since those are a thing now. It probably will look like leafy/frondy/vine accents. It'll look like getting my actual art and some functional items up on display.
Part of this is the perennial issue of figuring out where all my stuff actually goes. I'm probably going to end up with a bunch more of the clear-storage-bin stacks that folks seem to be using nowadays. Definitely shelving was the first step, and I'm pretty ok there, but the next step is to arrange things on the shelves in a reasonable, findable, and efficient way. It's also to shelve the few closets that I have, and to carefully curate what's in hidden shelves, what's in the carport, and what's on the (many) shelves out in the open. This is a balance between aesthetics and frequency of use.
Anyhow, little oases of aerogardens and grow lights are starting to spring up. They're driven by my desire to plant things: I will not put seeds in a pot if there's not plenty of room under a grow light for them. So, up the grow lights go, each finding new spots after I robed their shelves from the pantry.
I used to have my plants all crowded up by windows under additional growlights as a supplement; I remember being awed by Josh's little spotlights on each plant, each on a timer, throughout his house when I first visited him. Now I'm putting little oases of light everywhere and his are all up against a window.
It's good. But I do need more places to put plants. Time to figure out how to effectively growlight my hanging plants.
