As I take some time away from the blog for summering, I'm bringing back some favorite past posts to share with you! I like how this one, a reprint of The Small Within from March 2012, shows some of the thought process that went into the planning of our loft...
There's a book that been much looked at and loved here, lately: How to Make Play Places & Secret Hidy Holes. Yes, imaginations have roused to life with all the cubbies, shelters, tents and cocoons one can make with cloth, cardboard and wood.
It must be the same interest in the sheltering feeling of small spaces that caused me to have Small Home Designs and Inside the Not-So-Big House laying on the floor next to my bed right now. Treasures. Including this, found on the fly-leaf of Small Home Designs, hand written by a knowing soul:
"Dedicated to those who don't want to build mansions."
Love.
And, seeing that the words are written in a classic grandma-perfect hand, most surely by one who had known the beauty of small in her life, I find myself agreeing most wholeheartedly, seeing how she obviously knows.
While thinking along these lines, I noticed that there is small, then there is the small within the small. Like the bed nook. Not a room, but a carved-out portion for the bed, linens, pillows, books, art, lamps, sleeping. So much with so little.
Keep looking and you'll see what I mean...
Are you nodding your head, too?
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