Create the Style You Crave on a Budget You Can Afford by Desha Peacock

Author:Desha Peacock
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Views of Brattleboro, Vermont from the Dollhouse.

How does your home reflect your dreams, aspirations, and desires?

My aspirations, dreams, and desires are all about nurturing creative expression. I mean “nurture” in a very literal sense. Massage, delicious food, supportive collaboration, warmth, unconditional positive regard—it’s all necessary to call forth the creative. I named the house “The Dollhouse” because it reminds me of those old dollhouses you see at antique shows. And because you can always be a child here, you can play. It looks big on the outside, but inside it’s actually quite compact and cozy.

Because of this coziness and its unique architecture—the way the walls slant and seem to “hold” its occupants—The Dollhouse is the perfect place to be nurtured as a creative. It’s one of the many creative hubs in our little arts’ town. Here we hold the infamous Tuesday night salon and when that gets too big, one on Thursday mornings, too. I also hold kids’ salons after school. And I work with writers one-on-one here. The salons and the one-on-one work are about splonking the creative soul and teaching writers to lean into their strengths and to let themselves be supported as writers.

The more you nurture yourself, the more your critic takes a backseat and falls asleep. And when the critic is asleep? That’s when the genesis of great work is born. Here we have the space to talk about where the writer’s talent lives. Once a writer understands this, they burst through creative limitations they didn’t know they had. We all feel high in the midst of salon and for a long time afterwards. What happens in The Dollhouse is sacred and largely unexplainable. The house holds it all. Everything—its high ceilings, white velvet couches, feather-pillows, soft lighting and of course the wine and chocolate—seems to say, it’s alright, go ahead, take the leap: Create!

Do you have a favorite place in your home that makes you feel like you are thriving in your Sweet Spot?

The tower is my Sweet Spot. The four windows give you a view of the four directions. My grandmother’s drop leaf oak desk sits against the east wall whose window looks out onto a mountain over the Connecticut River. The desk is around the same age as the house and has seen its share of divorce and death. People have stashed money and love letters in its secret drawer. It was hidden for a long time in a Cape Cod storage shed and the cubbies are falling apart. This imperfection gives the owner permission to be imperfect herself. My grandmother once conducted business from it. She was six feet tall with a pound of ringing bangles on each arm, bright lipstick, and flashing black eyes. She smoked Pall Malls and insisted she had the lungs of a 12 year old. She was a fierce success in business and yet never took it too seriously. We writers might do the same. We too have to be businesspeople, we must know how to play

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