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If You Give a Mouse a Kitchen (opens the original)
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My mind has been an absolute jumbled mess recently. Sitting down to write with any sort of direction has been an uphill battle, to say the least. I start writing about kitchens, then I take a shower and realize how badly I want a nice robe, which of course means I should do a whole ROBE EDIT. Then I’m onto fabric samples for my ottoman. Then an imaginary trip to a newly opened hotel in Paris. There’s planning for a real getaway in here somewhere too — a little trip for myself — except it’s gone
Saved by pajamas and a vacuum (opens the original)
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This is the first week with nothing out of the ordinary. No out-of-town guests, no mile-long list for the house. Plenty to do, of course, but no real urgency beyond the chaotic reaction my nervous system has to seeing my home out of sorts.I’d been so looking forward to a week like this, and at first I did feel a hell of a lot better than I had in months. But then the reality of a life still very much in flux started to show itself. I really wish it didn’t affect my mood so much: that our buildin
I bought the wrong chair (opens the original)
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The first piece of furniture I bought for this house was the couch. I figured that with all of the change this year, the least I could do was give us somewhere to sit. I assumed I’d buy something new. But one night, mid-scroll through Facebook Marketplace, something stopped me.<source ty
The work of making a home (opens the original)
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The view outside is different than it was two months ago. In May, my husband, my toddler, and I made the long, arduous journey to England from our New Zealand bungalow. Every place we’ve slept since:An airport hotel in Auckland. The Shangri-La in Kowloon, Hong Kong. An Airbnb near London’s Hyde Park. My mother-in-law’s guest room. A caravan at a holiday park. A Travelodge. An aparthotel in a pretty, trendy corner of the city.And, finally, our new home. It took weeks longer than we expected, but
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