Okay, I know that I get over-excited about things, but I just need to tell you in all caps to GO CHECK OUT THIS HOME TOUR if you care even one little iota about home design. They won’t let me pull down photos to share in this space, so I literally had to screen grab the above photo to intro this post and entice you to click through. I’m the biggest plant lady ever, so that photo of the plants framing the door is one of the prettiest things to me, ever. Can you imagine what it would be like to walk out that door to the beautiful outside space? My heart literally beats with joy just thinking about it and I am so weirdly thankful for the opportunity to see this home from Australia with my own eyes.
I know, I’m a total freak. I love interior design so much. I have never felt about an interior space as much as I feel for this space. It is just so layered, so imbibed with texture and nuance, so exceedingly well-appointed and yet so incredibly livable. This is what I want for my own home. I am coming up quite short these days, but this is the goal. Just knowing it exists out there makes me happy.
This quote from the article spoke to me because it illustrates for me how it can take time to manifest our heart’s desires:
Mardi came across the building almost twenty years ago when walking around the area with her eldest daughter Mia (now 20) in her stroller. ‘I was enamoured with it at the time, and knew that I definitely wanted to live here someday.’ The stars aligned as the apartment became available at just the moment Mardi was looking.
The apartment became available at just the moment she was looking. Just the moment!!
One last note that I have to make: I never knew that my heart would stir over a collection of vintage mushrooms. I know that it’s probably a super valuable collector’s item that I know nothing about, but I can just imagine her FREAKING OUT when she found another mushroom for her collection over the years. They probably just sat in a storage closet or random area of her previous home. She probably had a little thrill at herself every time she bought another mushroom, wondering why she felt this weird compulsion to keep buying vintage mushrooms. As her collection grew, she probably had friends looking at her weird but she just carried on, knowing that someday her mushrooms would find their perfect home. Don’t those mushrooms just look like they were meant to be in this home? I couldn’t imagine the space without them.
Do you ever get so juiced off of something that you rush to your computer to share it with your internet friends? That’s what I do basically every day here in this space. If you have something you love that you want to share with someone just because you love it, consider this a written invitation to share in the comments.