Neutral ZEN Living Room & A New Rug
Hello, and Thank you for preventing by means of these days!
It's been a while since I've shared pictures of our home here on the blog, in fact, I haven't shared our home at all this new year. The main reason for this is that I felt that I needed to take some time off from blogging and focus on my goals for the new year. After much thougth and several new Pinterest boards. I have discovered that I want to take our home in a new direction this year.
The word that maintains coming to me is Zen Living
My short definition for the word Zen Living is: to create a harmonious and non violent home this is enjoyable and evokes the spirit of Zen.
My intentions for The Wicker House this new 12 months is to recognition extra on Zen Living and proportion with you simple approaches wherein you could additionally invite Zen into your personal houses.. With the chaos of normal lifestyles, I think all of us could use a little greater Zen in our lives and Homes. Agree?
Today, I want to show you around our Living room and share a few details that I consider to be aspects of Zen Living.
Let's start with my new rug from Natural Area Rugs. Natural Area Rugs offers a wide selection of affordable natural fiber rugs, such as sisal, sea grass, jute, and many more. All of their rugs are made in the USA with fast and free shipping. If you are in the market for a new rug, I highly recommend Natural Area Rugs.
I chose thePaloma Jute Rug for our living room for a few different reasons. 1. Jute is an earth-friendly material which means there are no chemicals or artificial dyes. And 2. Jute feels soft on bare feet. Those are two things that are necessary for Zen living, natural materials and bare feet.
I'm so pleased with my new rug. One of my favorite detail about this rug is the fun frayed edges on each end.
Because Zen Living is about creating a soothing space, I stuck to a neutral color palette in our living room. But this does not mean that you can't use color for Zen Living. I find neutrals to be calming, but color can very much be calming as well. I think it really just matters on what colors you feel calm around.
Plants are another element of Zen Living. I'm sure you're already acquainted with all of the incredible advantages of proudly owning house flora. The extra plants you have the purifier the air in your property could be to breath. I plan to keep adding greater flowers into our domestic for the duration of the year.
Soft lighting and candles also are very soothing. During the day I open up the curtains to fill our domestic with natural mild. At night time I activate lamps instead of harsh overhead lighting. I also experience the enjoyable atmosphere of lit candles. Here, I have coated a row of candles down our mantle. Most of the candles are battery operated ones, which is so satisfactory because you don't need to worry about keeping an eye fixed on them as a whole lot. Also, my boys like to blow out candles, so my actual flames never stay lit for long round here. :)
And lastly, I added some new artwork to my DIY Picture Ledge. The large leaf silhouette print came from Home Goods. The bird of paradise art is a painting done by my husband's grandpa and all of the others are all free printables that I found while searching on Pinterest.
The "Good Vibes Only" printable can be found HERE.
The gold Pineapple printable can be foundHERE.
Okay, and now this "Wherever you are be all there" printable can be found HERE at Mountain Modern Life. I stopped by for the free printable but fell in love with the blog. Mountain Modern Life is the journey of an adorable couple, Eric and Katie, who live and travel in the most amazing RV.
Katie created this free printable as a reminder to practice being present. Katie also mentions the book, "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle and how it helped her. Ironically, I just finished reading this book, and in fact, I'm re-reading it for a second time because it is so eye-opening. Have you read it?
This moment (NOW) is the all that topics.
Zen Living actually is just about developing a non violent home that lets you be present and experience the moment. Living within the second is the way you achieve Zen.
Do you've got any thoughts you would love to add? I'd love to hear them in a comment underneath.
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Thank you again for preventing via these days,
Peace & Love,
Emily