Interior

Already as a small girl I knew how I wanted my surroundings to look, I had an instinctive feeling of how things should be placed. I have never been very messy and would even (I know) cry sometimes when the cleaning lady had been to our house and had left the carpets rolled up in my room or forgotten to bring down my chair from my desk, my room was clean but not organized and this got to me. When I did not get what I wanted I tried to make it. My first years out of the "pinnsäng" I slept in a box bed that could be rolled in under one of my brother's beds during the day. I badly wanted a "normal bed" with four legs, but since I shared the room with my brother this was how it had to be. I decided to "build" my own bed, so I took two small chairs and put a board on top of them, I then took a small mattress and placed it on top of the board. How did I sleep? Every night I fell down from my bed, OF COURSE, so my bed and patience lasted for about one week, that is when both my brother and myself had had enough of night time awakenings. When I was seven we moved to the house where my parents still live today and I finally got my own room and my own "real" bed, I think the bed was the best thing about moving for me. I wanted Mumin wallpaper but was told that I would not want to have Mumin on the wall for very long and my walls were covered with white wallpaper with a light blue board. I have thanked my mother many times for this, after 6 months I would not have wanted to have Mumin on my walls anymore. As a student I could not afford to decorate my room exactly as I had wished for, but here as well I did what I could with the means that I had. I used to buy interior decoration magazines and dream how my house would look one day, or how I would like it to look. I have always had a very strong sense of how I want things in the house to be organized and I will be restless until things are in their place. I still love reading interior magazines, I cannot get enough of them, sadly now that we are moving again I will have to get rid of many euros worth of magazines because Hendrik does not see the point of moving them from one house to the other. So, I am going through all of them again and pulling out pages for inspiration, this also works well, its just that I feel that the magazines themselves are part of the interior, but Hendrik then says that so does Time Magazine etc., so the discussion ended there. Not only interior magazines inspire me but also my surroundings, wherever I am I seek inspiration, I have many friends who have a good eye for interior and they all inspire me. Decorating a house or a room or anything really is a creative process that takes time, after all, a house is never ready, there is always something you want to change or add, but that is part of the fun. Soon we will be moving into our new home and it will take some serious planning to get it right, since it is a lot smaller than our current home, that is a challenge I willingly take on. I wish I was even more handy than I am, that I could easily build my own furniture (and I do not mean assemble IKEA furniture because I can do that and I am pretty good actually) and fix things in the house, I actually think that it should be part of school education, of course you learn some practical things in school, but I think it could be so much more. Like which paint to use for which material, which screws are best used for what material etc. there are so many things that would be great to know just like that, without having to ask somebody. I did once re-dress a sofa, without having any experience whatsoever and I did manage to get it to look exactly how I wanted, but since then I have not tried, it takes time, time that I don't have at the moment. Next to not having time I do not really have the patience that it takes to build something, I want what I am creating to be ready within a few days, not weeks.