Pots, Blooms & BBQ

Oh the joy of Spring. Today we visited a large nursery nearby. It was brimming with families who were combing the garden for all manner of pots, gardening tools and plants. It's great to see people pulling red-wagons around as they fill them with their finds. Kids get a great introduction to interacting with nature and parents get much needed stress relief by considering the blossoms so delicate and colorful. The place smelled heavenly to boot. We chuckled to see that a BBQ wagon was on their premises and people queued up to order brisket sandwiches and hot dogs.

Make sure you get some time to participate in a rite or two of Spring, a time of year of youthful renewal and play.

And if you get to Virginia, visit Merrifield Garden Center for all your gardening needs.

Lagom

I just learned a new word for balance: Lagom. This is the Swedish term for 'not too much, not too little: just right'. I like it and I think home design falls well into the spirit of this word. I love it when I walk into a space that has a sense of lagom, that is, a sense that the right balance of color, texture, shape and emotion are all working together.

Hotel Room Relief

On a recent trip to our heartland I had to do a difficult task. I was pleasantly surprised that the hotel at which I was staying provided a 'just right' feel such that I felt at the end of each day I was safely and peacefully tucked in for the night. I don't experience this often at hotels, so I looked around to see what made it so.

In this case the surroundings were contemporary and the layout was a small living room suite and a platform bed area separated by a faux Japanese screen built into the dividing wall. The bathroom area had plenty of black granite looking counter space with a bevelled mirror hanging above. The cozy bed was well done with a feather comforter and neutral high quality duvet. Somehow the arrangement of the space along with its interiors struck a cord of comfort. Sometimes even ultra lux, expensive places do not do this.