willingdon drive redesign | the reading room

by christina britt lewis
photography by angela statzer

we are BACK!
we tend to take a ton of time off after decking all the halls. 
people think i have been unavailable because i've been busy book writing.
yeah, notsomuch.
letting people think that is easier than finding words to explain my need for nothingness.
in his brilliant book essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less, greg mckeown found the words...

everything changes when we give ourselves permission to be more selective in what we choose to do. at once, we hold the key to unlock the next level of achievement in our lives. there is tremendous freedom in learning that we can eliminate the nonessentials, that we are no longer controlled by other people's agendas, and that we get to choose. with that invincible power we can discover our highest point of contribution, not just to our lives or careers, but to the world...

what if society stopped telling us to buy more stuff and instead allowed us to create more space to breathe and think? what if society encouraged us to reject what has been accurately described as doing things we detest, to buy things we don't need, with money we don't have, to impress people we don't like?

what if we stopped being oversold the value of having more and undersold the value of having less?

what if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measure of importance? what if instead we celebrated how much time we spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?

what if the world shifted from the undisciplined pursuit of more to the disciplined pursuit of less...
only better?

so we are back!
and more resolved than ever to help people see the beauty in what they already have...

the pool table had become a notsobeautiful catch all since their little one came along.
time to turn this into a happy reading room
to spend time listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with a most important person...
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a few fresh things that kelly found and a button bird designs owl
handmade by angela
breathe new life into the comfy old loveseat they already had...
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her grandmother's chair looked dated and small in the bedroom where we found it,
but in the new reading room it suddenly feels all anthropologie...
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we found curious george up in a closet 
AFTER we had decided on yellow for the room.
i LOVE it when that happens!
people don't think they have great stuff,
but they do. 
you do.
you totally do.
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​the play room and the family room we stole the loveseat from coming soon!
oh and about 20 more redesigns too. 
i'm a bit behind on blogging due to all of the nothingness i have been doing.
and i'm not sorry.
BIG LOVE to myquillyn for recommending and angela for buying
the book that made me not sorry.

xo...
christina for all