In the Living Room Window

When I walked into what became the very first house I'd purchase, I knew I'd found a house I could truly live in. Referencing just about every post I wrote this past July when I described my affection for all things nature & outdoors 😏, walking in the front door & taking in the atmosphere of the immediate space of this house, it truly echoed all that was what I could wrap myself around (or, technically, the house could wrap around me 😉 - since when someone's indoors, the indoor space is encompassing them, not the other way around 😂).

Plenty of "nature" amassed the house's main floor. Although an outdated décor, plenty of wood paneling hung as an enhancement in various areas. Also, & most substantially, the separator between the living room & dining room was what I deemed a "half wall" which consisted of stone (presumably fake 😐), obviously a conceptual "outdoor" theme.

Despite my instant feeling of "cozy" in this house, with the walls & such wrapping around me, plenty needed to be improved upon in the window department. The dining room window wasn't supporting its duty as it was meant to, & this was appropriately purchased annually.

I'd known for some time that, when I'd update the front window (which desperately needed to be done), I'd most wish to do right & have a bay window installed, not just a direct window of the type which had come with the house. With this bay window would come a "shelf" for displaying & such.

Keeping it simple, Mom had supplied a ceramic flower pot full of something that wasn't any type of live plant or any greenery. The pot was a light muted green color, which matched well with what I painted the living room walls. The contents weren't anything to maintain, as it wasn't a plant, rather just something that sort of dangled from the pot, filling out enough of the space of the bay window's ledge to keep it presentable; not overfilled, nor empty.

When it came time to decorate for the Christmas season, I'd happened upon one of these. I hadn't purchased it for this intention; I'd purchased it for its striking simplicity, yet general detail & inclusive attractiveness. I especially grew to like the simple on/off switch & that I could change its dynamics by switching out the "card" between the tree & its base in so that I'd have a solid color illumination, or a multi-colored one. I remember typically opting for the multi-color illumination, likely because it connected me more to these that would be wrapped around one that stretched from floor-to-ceiling.

Sitting this atop my bay window wasn't the only one of these I set up for display. 😊😎 Though in my usual style, I stuck with simplicity.

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