@northwoodfalls1403

2 months ago

We were a military family when I was growing up so we moved constantly. If we were in one place for more than a year, we got antsy. And because we moved so often, my parents kinda had to take what was available re housing. My mother was a literal magician with decorating. And for the first month or so, the house was constantly changing as she figured out what was going to work in that particular house. And ya, sometimes you’d come home and entire rooms had been swapped. My father used to say as long he knew where his chair and his bed were, he was happy 😂 All to say, I am an old hand at moving things around the minute I start to feel bored or unhappy with my home. Even if it’s a room I don’t spend much time in, just mixing things up somewhere in the house seems to unlodge stuck energy and there’s usually a cascading effect where the whole house gets tweaked even slightly (or sometimes massively). Sometimes I even go ahead and yank out things that are really depressing me even if I can’t afford to replace them yet. I yanked off the carpet on my stairs and yanked out cabinets in my kitchen a couple of years ago. The kitchen still isn’t “done” and one wall is still pretty rough and the stairs haven’t been finished totally, but I don’t care. I’d rather have something unfinished then stare at something I hate every day. Also, sometimes it gives me more time to come up with even better ideas than my initial ones or sometimes a new product comes out in the meantime that solves a problem for me. And no, I don’t think it’s a negative thing that your space is that important to you. Some of us are very sensitive to our surroundings and if they’re displeasing it nags at our brains all the time. Now, if you were going into massive debt to buy extremely expensive decor, that would be a whole other issue. But you’re not, so it’s not. ❤

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