Creating Space = Creating Self

I’ve been on a journey of self-discovery. For me, working on my home is a way of getting know myself. I’m also creating myself as I go. I see it as a metaphor for all other aspects of my life. I’ve always been interested in space and how space affects us but a huge impetus for this current rendition of how I’m approaching my space was reading Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. The method lives up to the name. I had for so long held on to things and put off projects. 

Prior to reading this book, I had always felt guilty or like I was wasting time by overly focusing on my surroundings or by letting go of things that I had or had been given that didn’t bring me joy.

For me the biggest take away of the book was that I didn’t have to live in a space full of other people’s visions and expectations.

I wasn’t helping anyone by holding on to these things and that by letting go of them, I could create room to allow my own visions and expectations in. I believe that it was actually hard to know what my own vision was because it was crowded out with other people’s visions. This all sounds very obscure to I will work to break it down in specific posts where I explain how I approached each area of my space. 

This section of my site chronicles that journey. 

Home Tour

Here I’ve shared the current iteration of where I am in the working on my home. Still much more work to go but I enjoy having a snapshot of where I am in the journey right now. As I complete more projects, I update this reel. 

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Room Makeovers

Here I break down each of the projects I’ve completed by area of the house. I’ve also included before and afters for each area to track the evolution. 

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Journal

Here you can find all of my journal posts about the projects that I’ve taken on to transform my space. 

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