Hello friends,
A very good day/night to you all.This is a the
continuation of the post on Simplicity for Zealouszestyliving, which you may like to read before reading the last point about this topic Here,
Simplicity in your Home.
A simple clean, adequately furnished and comfortable house is what one needs. It is easy to maintain and is cost effective as I have mentioned in the earlier post on Simplicity. But, we want to keep renovating our house over and over again, buy that chandelier which we saw at our friends place, or buy that wall piece which we sighted in the mall etc, etc.
A simple earthen bowl with plants or water along with fresh floating flowers can make a room look cool. You may light candles and put them in earthen small containers like this arrangement which I had last year or
use a simple earthen diya stand ( see the picture in the first post that is intro of this blog.) The look it gives at a dinner party is fantastic but of course it requires an effort to light all those lights , I take half an hour though you may use light series or candles.
Home made wall pieces, craft items made with waste can give a personal touch to your home decor. Here is a simple corner piece which I have made from used bottles. Hope you like it and are inspired to make some more creative things by using waste. Please mail me I would love to put it on this blog.
Home made wall pieces, craft items made with waste can give a personal touch to your home decor. Here is a simple corner piece which I have made from used bottles. Hope you like it and are inspired to make some more creative things by using waste. Please mail me I would love to put it on this blog.
Of course I do not claim to be a perfectionist in the art of mastering the technique of simple living and not at all in home decor as I am longing to have a Victorian sofa set and a Chippendale furniture piece which I can very well do without. Not being a millionaire has by default curbed the craving for more lavish stuff luckily.
So, all I can state is we should go for a house which we can afford, (no point in staying in a mansion which you can't afford and having a sleepless night daily worrying about the loan) and meets our basic requirements. By basic requirement I mean if you are a singer or a musician, a recording room may be a basic requirement; a painter might want a studio to work undisturbed and keep his things as his basic requirement and so on. Have your house decorated in such a way that it is easy to maintain.
Make your house as comfortable as possible. Buy kitchen appliances which save time (if you are a busy person), if you have some limitations have gadgets in the house which will be helpful to you and so on. Simplicity does not mean that you should be frugal in making your house comfortable and more functional. did you get the point I am trying to put across ? Do you agree with me ? Please share your feelings and views.
(By the way if you are an extremely thrifty person please disregard this and the previous post, remember we are thinking of being simple to live with zeal and zest! and not to live without zeal and zest simply!)
Here's a quote on Simplicity which I am sure you will enjoy.
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness"
--Henry Thoreau
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