NATURE INSPIRED

NATURAL INSPIRATION: Nature-inspired artisan-painted spaces bring the outdoors inside. I love this nod to European country life. When nature has a hand in anything, it turns out perfectly. I would bet money that the tree peeking around the door frame inspired this interior interpretation. This is what I deeply miss about artisan work and creating impact out of a blank wall. My whole art direction and design career has been about just that. This is food for thought as we lead up to Earth Day tomorrow. Why is it that we exclude nature from our interior design by closing it off with doors, windows, and that intimate conversation that a breeze can have with a space? I see a lot of cookie-cutter homes built without a connection to the environment around them. It’s just a box sitting on a lot without very much thought behind what will be viewed from the windows and the doors. Most of the new construction that’s going up in the area is static rows of houses with tiny windows, and little or no garden space to buffer the neighbours or nearby highways. This takes away from what makes a house a home. Country life is overrun by chemical farming, so there’s no clean, breathable air. This is why Europe owns me! Tomorrow’s Earth Day post will literally hit home. #behousedesign #findinghome #curatedinteriors #styleinfluencer