Design Inspiration

We bought a new house last winter and it is likely to be THE house. I’m pretty sure this is the home where I will raise my babies and spend the vast majority of my adult life.

There is quite a bit more space in the new digs and I’ve been in a decorating frenzy since the move. I love this house and I want to make it beautiful.

But I’ve also realized that I want something beyond just pretty, I really want to create a meaningful home. Ideally, the house would be both full of meaning and lovely.

I'm not sure I can pull it off, but there's one of my attempts so far-

(And yes, I realize the photo is pretty bad.  I'm crap with a camera so this is as good as it got.)

It’s a collection of sketches from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. (The art was cut from a used book and the frames were bought on sale at Michael’s.)

I love Leonardo da Vinci. I find him to be fabulously fascinating.

Obviously, he’s best known as a painter, but the man was truly a genius who dabbed in just about everything. Beyond his skill as an artist, he was accomplished as an architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, anatomist, geologist, botanist, writer and engineer.

I’m an engineer by training, which is a field associated with a plethora of well-earned stereotypes. I know I tend to lean toward the left side of my brain, but I try to lead a well rounded life. I love the possibilities that a man like da Vinci opens. He gives me hope that maybe there is a little bit of artist, engineer, architect, musician, etc in all of us.

These pictures remind me that each of us is full of potential. They also inspire me to turn off the TV, get off the couch and do something productive myself.

I’m not sure others will find the pictures beautiful, but I love them.