This new house has been so much fun to furnish and decorate, but we’ve been careful to make sure that we’re not setting ourselves up for hidden stashes of stuff that hide away and collect dust. It’s like being a house plant 🌿 ... house plants have this great way of growing to the size of their containers and no more. We’ll collect more things for sure now that we have more space, but we’re eager to look for ways to continue to move the old things out rather than stashing them away, replace one-for-one, and maintain a level of things that makes it easy to clean, tidy, and put things away. We’ll grow a little but only to the size of the container we’re living in.
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Light and minimal // This goes far beyond my IG handle and is our whole mantra for making decisions about our life and home.
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Light // Do what brings in the Light (in a spiritual sense) so we can be light to those around us. Lightness, especially in this busy world, can be a difficult posture to take, so this is a constant, perfect reminder to seek the Restorer and Renewer and choose light, grace, and joy in all we do.
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Minimal // Choose things, activities, thoughts, and actions wisely. Avoid overthinking, over-packing, over-doing. Aim for simplicity so what remains is what brings restoration.
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It’s been so fun to see our new house come together under the same mindset and guidance... create a simple space that allows us to live with lightness and intension and gathers people in. To do this we’ve even sold furniture that wasn’t conducive to light, airy spaces or didn’t gather people and replaced with pieces that didn’t over-crowd and would serve more people. (For example, we replaced two dressers in the bedroom with one for the two of us to create this spacious retreat.) Less truly is more!
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