What inspires you when you think of design, travel, or even choices you prefer?
If fast cars, city lights, skyscrapers, taxi’s or shopping make you feel at home, you might be a city dweller. On the other hand, if you prefer, grass fields, the sight of barns, old trucks, and fences for miles, you might have country in your heart. Some people enjoy a combination of both.
When it comes to city life, dressing in fashionable clothes, dining in fine restaurants, shopping on Park Ave., and attending a Broadway show might be what pulls at your fondest desires. That is what motivates you.
Country life, however, is dressing down with casual blue jeans, maybe cowboy boots and hats, visiting old mercantile shops, antique and vintage stores, visiting old favorite kitchens that serve homemade pies, and down-home comfort foods may be calling your name.
Who’s to say that both aren’t great? It’s really a break from one to see and experience the other. That might be what they call Rustic Chic, or Modern Industrial where vintage is cool, and mixing clean and new with old and re-purposed is the best of both. How interesting those styles can be! Half the fun is in the search for great pieces to add to either your home, business or even your wardrobe.
It’s a fair bet that many people have a bit of both in their bones to some degree. Most people who grew up in small towns and moved on to bigger cities still have that feeling of “going home.” It must be something that our memories long for when it comes to being comforted with what our childhoods consisted of. What’s your comfort?
