A Perfectly Kept House is the Sign of A Misspent Life, can I get an Amen?! I just added Mary Carter's new book to my shopping cart on Amazon. Why live a Pottery Barn catalog? Bo-rang!
Organization and cleanliness are great, but they don't give personality to a home. I love places that look lived-in... an open book and some magazines on the coffee table, family photos everywhere, personal collections on display and a pile of junk mail on the counter... ahhh, home. However, let's not confuse lived-in with dirty. I recently watched an episode of Hoarders, on TLC, where a woman sleeps in a bead with her pet gerbil. Grody. 409 and Windex are our friends, but as Carter writes, "Don’t scrub the soul out of your home."
Organization and cleanliness are great, but they don't give personality to a home. I love places that look lived-in... an open book and some magazines on the coffee table, family photos everywhere, personal collections on display and a pile of junk mail on the counter... ahhh, home. However, let's not confuse lived-in with dirty. I recently watched an episode of Hoarders, on TLC, where a woman sleeps in a bead with her pet gerbil. Grody. 409 and Windex are our friends, but as Carter writes, "Don’t scrub the soul out of your home."
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