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by christina britt lewis and timothy dean lewis photography by angela statzer our home is uber open. literally and figuratively. you can see the kitchen from everywhere. we find peace in having only what we know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. even on the kitchen countertops. so we installed an outlet in the pantry for the microwave, the printer, and the phone chargers. we keep knives and utensils in a drawer. and we don't own a toaster. the broiler toasts just fine. i would show you the pantry, but you would hate me. so i won't. it's better this way.  fish sculpture carved from a can of coconut milk by artist, tatum. he’s been featured in coastal living, but occasionally makes an appearance at metrolina and sells his sculptures for next to nothing. he always manages to tell a little tale too. ask him about when a manufacturer from china called him and asked to mass produce his work. before hanging up on china he yelled into the phone “I’M AN OLD MAN!” ...  useful and beautiful. we think...  baby cole pointed out the dining room window of our new home in new hampshire and said "moooo". we praised him for knowing what a cow says as he continued to point and moo. we finally looked up from our chicken or whatever to see what he saw. a moose. A MOOSE! in our front yard while we ate dinner. this moose head reminds us of where we come from. it makes us happy and tells our story...  as i never shut up about...collecting things is fun and fills your home with happy memories. make your home tell your story. make it feel like you. so when people come they leave knowing you better, just from being in your home. the corks are as much a game as they are a collection. you know how everybody always sits at the kitchen counter? "toss the cork" gives them something to do aside from eat all of the pistachios. they also nicely fill that awkward space where wall meets cabinet. and now i'm singing this. but anyway...this is like 10 years worth of corks. just so ya know.  so the juicer is a great example of something that is relatively ugly but completely useful. we use it all the time and it's a heavy pain in the neck of a thing. if i put it in a cabinet i would stop juicing. and that's the only way i can get kale and beets and all sorts of other things they don't even know are in there, into my family...  camden's feet. i painted them. don't look too closely. and no, the child does not have deformed toes...   this is one day of a 31 day series about living in a peaceful home. click here to read the rest of the series. peace be with you, tim christina cole camden george Comments are closed.
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