This video is a good one to watch, if you, like myself, are in the “stuff” bussiness. Even if you are not, if you are reading this blog, and you live in the western world, you are no doubt, like most other people, surounded with stuff, and out there getting more and more of it.

This is a moment of thought to carry around with you in your head. I know that I have been for about a couple of months, and it has had a marked effect.

I found this on Land + Living, and am spreading the word.

I love this kitchen. Totally love it. I borrowed this image from The Brick House. In case you are not familiar with it, The Brick House is a blog about a mid century fixer upper including the trials and the tribulations of fixing it up.

Anyway, there is something so crisp and acurate and breakfast like to this kitchen. The blue counter top is killing me :-)

Unfortunately, not all good ideas, and innovative thinking make for great design.

for example - this workspace insulation, by German architect Davidson Rafailidis, which is very interesting to look at and the concept and thought behind it are good doesn’t quite work for me and for many others I am sure.

The slant from the wall would make me feel as if someone was kicking my feet back all the time, and he smallness and strangeness of the shape would make me completely claustrophobic.

From this angle it seems as if the desk is trying to push itself out as well.

The as I said before, the thought here is good green and energy saving, but the actual comfort, physical and mental is also very important in a work space and here I see niether.

I first found this in Atelier A+D and continued reading about it in Dezeen

2 or 3 thing I know is one of the most aesthetically pleasing and calming places to visit on the blogsphere. I found this there

this is Augustin Lesage, who I know nothing about, except that he does this amazing work. You can see more at but does it float

and while you are there - look here as well, and you will know for sure that all is well. have fun.

Sometimes you get a feeling that something is just right, and familiar and is as how it should be, and then there turns out to be a term that describes it accurately.

I have just discovered that my sense of aesthetics has a definition, or description or name - and my love of process, materials, visible passage of time and the perfection of imperfection and chance is called Wabi Sabi.

Wabi Sabi, according to Wiki

.” Richard R. Powell summarizes by saying “It (wabi-sabi) nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

I read that and has such an ahh ha moment, like I have never previously had.

Now, when I look at a wall that is rain streaked and beautiful - I can think to myself - Wabi Sabi.

I came across the concept while reading about a Carol Barden Project in Carolina Eclectic called the Wabi Sabi Home (do yourself a favor and click on both these links.  Both are interesting and enlightening, and make me, at least feel wonderful, with what a lot of other people would call scruffiness.

photo credit fling 93