It's September, not yet fall, but I think I'm willing to overlook that and pretend it is and start my fall decorating.
I'm making a somethin' somethin' for the front door. I want to try and always have something special on the door. So I'm tying up a bunch of wheat that has really long stems. I think it will look nice.
I have this book which I love called The Geography of Home by Akiko Bush. In it, the author has a chapter about the front door and how the front door has kind of lost its significance as most people now enter their home through the garage. Oh, I had to go get the book and throw in my favorite quotes about the front door so here are a few of Akiko Busch's keen observations:
"Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense of arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home." and "Isn't there an enormous difference between something that is never used and something that is useless? And if something, like a front door, serves a basic human need for symbolic meanings, isn't that also serving a function?" also "In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet."
"Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense of arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home." and "Isn't there an enormous difference between something that is never used and something that is useless? And if something, like a front door, serves a basic human need for symbolic meanings, isn't that also serving a function?" also "In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet."
So now I really need to get a somethin' on my door to serve as a poetic, grand welcome to neighbors and guests. Also it will just be pretty and make me happy. Oh, I also want to order a "welcome" mat from Ballard Designs. A sturdy little rubber number in an oval shape. That will complete the entry for now.
I finally found some cabinet hardware for the kitchen last night. I really wanted to paint the cabinets white and purchase these oh-so-amazing green glass drawer pulls and knobs for the cabinets, but NO. My dear husband wants to keep the cabinets in their ugly, yellowish, natural wood state. So we bought black handles which look a lot better than the old brass ones. We are on a debrassing mission in our house. We have a lot of doorknobs and a couple of lights to go, but the mission is under way!
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