I am increasingly becomming a modern maximalist, packing my home spaces out with more and more weird and wonderful objectS. I know I need to pare things down for the sake of my family, but the compulsion remains and even grows with every moment! My latest need has been in changing things around in our main living room - just a little swapping of corners to give a fresh approach, but retaining the same essential pieces.

Another compulsion I have lately, is to juxtapose the new with the old; the conventional with the unconventional and the handmade with the mass-produced. I don't have any explanation for this. Let me know what you think.......