It helps us to become aware of what's still important to us, what continues to have meaning. This quiet, private act can therefore become an agent in helping us discover more about our feelings and our personal evolution. For the important thing in a living house is not splendor, but refinement, not elaborate decorativeness, but novelty and elegance. When it comes to our rooms, think of them as intimate spaces you want to feel comfortable, alone. Elegance is more often achieved by what you leave out.
Limitations are liberating, and their solutions self-directing.
Each room will then speak to you from a point of view that is naturally yours. Your rooms have to work not only for you but for the unique habits, customs, and patterns of your family. Once our personal style is deeply anchored in simplicity and appropriateness, then our rooms will reveal their own inward beauty. Beauty in a room requires a point of view, just as it does in a garden. I always think of rooms as gardens because they are similar in many ways.