It has been said that no idea is original. I am not that cynical, but I understand the context. Great ideas flow from other ideas. I like to call it ‘inspiration’.

JoDee has a friend who uses her Living Room as a space for coffee and gossip by rejecting the traditional sofa and chair set up for a circle of rocking chairs. Perusing a furniture store catalogue, we noticed a similar arrangement with Wingback Chairs. So it was as if the Decorating Fairies put a new collection of perfectly sized and relatively inexpensive occasional chairs into Pier 1 just for us.

We still need to hunt for the perfect round low coffee table and a chandelier with the right balance of sparkle and iron. We borrowed an idea from the internet when we planned to create a mural of family words and quotes as a background to children’s portraits. From feng shui we took the idea of a tabletop gallery of family snapshots.

All these ideas are incorporated into one unique design, perfect for a special family.