The house is becoming so that a 
'generic person' could live in it.
I think a room should be essentially 
empty and if you don't have too much
	stuff,
	that way, 
	the things you have, 
	make more visual impact.
I think I would be ok with one or 
two Ikea inspired elements, and a 
bit of mid century.. and thirties
trinkets? I don't have a coffee table.
There is only so much abuse a shin bone 
can take.
 
	My place will be obsessively
	increasingly tidy.

I can really get this back to basics! Back to
square one. Back to the mid century?  
It never went away.

THE MID CENTURY
	for all its flaws the clean suburbian
	post war dreamscape can seem like an
	enclave of heaven. I think they were 
	aiming at utopia. Today it seems we've
	lost this but the mid century design
	that we cherish might be more than a 
	'look':
 
It's keeping that spirit alive even if it's
just one element, a clock perhaps.. 
A friend reckons it was the ideal time to be
alive: 'That's when they had everything 
exactly perfect...' I was born early 
seventies so I caught the tail end of it. 
The mid century was taken away from us.

Maybe boomers would be quick to throw it
out but a younger crowd rescued it. 
Look at it this way, a flat pack you assembled
yourself is never going to be as good as what 
Danish carpenters could have made!
/ / /iolfree