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» 2010 November
Everything Must Feel New Again.
• • • • • It’s all a matter of perspective, I say. Where others think “lazy”, I say, “easy”—that means work never stops, just slows down its pace a little. When you’re not panting for breath and zipping past the countryside, then brisk walking is great for taking in the fresh air and the smell of the grass after the rain! Where others think “disappointing,” I say “rejuvenating.” As my husband Gus likes to quote, “There is a time for making chairs and a time for sitting on them… to make sure the fit is right.”
Meryll White and Meryll Grey show up to the show in the same dress of different colours… but it can’t be helped, it’s a great fit!
Snug as a Button!
Like fitting together pieces of a puzzle; memories from the Fired Days of kiln and earth!
November days mean a retrospective look at the year, the time to shed and prepare to begin anew again. In a four-season country, it would be the height and latter days of autumn, and fashionably speaking, a time for layers. Putting on layers and shedding layers; after Christmas, one is ready for the new year. On my end, I’ve been readying a very integral part of me, which in many ways reflects what I believe and what I feel, and continues to do so even today: My house.
Christmas decór and a warm orange glow is what colours my December. Welcome to the living room!
Dining dressed; since it’s just Gus and myself, our house isn’t a very big one, but we’ve been blessed with friends and big hearts that have come and broken bread with us for as long as we could remember!
I’ve talked about how I dress up a space with lights », talked about how I have been a humble part of great projects ». In an important way, the showroom and my office reflect what I hope to achieve in my work, but my house, my home, where I effuse, has admittedly been carrying on as it was for the past several years or so. Friends who know me have to admit that despite my outgoingness, I am rather private. When we were asked by a major Indian publication if they could feature the interiors of our home, I was a liiiittle bit shy about it, though Gus had prompted me, with the condition that “the bedroom stays shut!”
Not quite our bedroom, but here’s the Bamboo Niño wall sconce being proudly a part of Costabella Tropical Beach Resort’s » suite, interior designed by my dear friend Rene Ybañez.
Now, however, as we have begun to streamline our work processes, I’ve come back to the space that holds ‘me’ as I am. and am going to renew the process; to bring my area to the outside world, via furniture that I will personally use as markers to this new renovation. Sketches have been flying these past few days; K » has been pulling keywords and images, and we’re doing it on a holiday in the midst of the lovely cacophony of a renovating house. As I’m typing, Gus is upstairs assembling a utility rack with our foreman; K admits the smell of fresh paint and a barely furnished room makes her nostalgic for the time she moved in their house as a child, and I’m forecasting future projects too.
Future projects which still carry a hint of the already familiar.
Look who’s gotten a studdsy makeover for the holidays.
Looking forward to Christmas, new projects and a great new year!
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Photos by K. Batiquin » and Gus Palao »
