What is a good life?

Not long ago, I sorted out the bookshelves at home and found that I have slowly collected a lot of books about home in recent years. Usually I read a few pages on weekends, or as the last bedtime reading of the day. Reading these books is like drinking a cup of hot tea. Page by page, a beautiful life unfolds before your eyes, and the usual hard work and haste gradually recede.

When did things at home become serious? Since childhood, we have been taught to pursue grand ideals, to be winners in life, and to live a good life is always regarded as a small interest without ambition. Allen de Botton wrote in The Charm of Boring Places:

"Occupy a fortress and undertake an important task,

Managing a country is a matter of prestige.

Unfortunately, people always forget,

Butter the children's bread and make the bed,

The significance of these daily behaviors. "

The four home books shared for you are about humanized home layout, storage and arrangement, the relationship between people and utensils, and the inheritance of style. I hope reading them can bring some small changes to your busy life and try to feel the great significance contained in ordinary life.

0 1 | What does home look like

Ye Yilan is my favorite lifestyle writer in Taiwan Province Province. She is an Ami fan and has stayed in Ami hotels all over the world. Love cooking, like black tea, take photos on the Weibo to record every meal, even if one person wants to eat well; She travels around the world and lives on the road. She also likes to stay at home. She transformed the old house where she lived for nearly 20 years and created a more humanized, comfortable and suitable "physical and mental residence".

This book is suitable for everyone who is interested in decoration, not only because she shared organized practical decoration suggestions, but more importantly, she started from the needs and feelings of life, eliminated the gorgeous but unsuitable redundant decoration, and let the family return to life itself. The way home looks is what you look like. Home is not the capital to show off your status, nor the place to rest occasionally when you are busy with work, but the place where you are physically and mentally stable and the bearing space of your ideal life.

02 | Crossbeam at home What is a good life?

BEAMS is a Japanese fashion brand with a history of nearly 40 years. It started as a buyer's shop, collecting interesting little things from all over the world. "BEAMS in HOME What is a Good Life" visited the home environment of BEAMS Company 130 employees and the small things in their homes. As a pioneer of the "lifestyle" trend in recent years, Tokyo always brings maverick but warm and peaceful home fashion.

130 employees, 130 houses, 130 different lifestyles. The owners of the family shared their favorite soul objects, some of which were a guitar left from middle school, some were bottles and jars found during the trip, and some were an old candlestick left by my late grandmother. They believe in the memory of life and the power of things around them. Our home is made up of these items, and each item is the imprint of our experience and experience in this world.

03 | Received the whole book

I have a habit, also called lucky solution, which is to clean my family. Whenever I feel that I am in a bad mood for a while and things are not going well, I look around at home. It must be a mess. The first step to eliminate bad luck is to make a comprehensive arrangement for the family. Every time I finish it, it's like a long time, and my mood immediately becomes relaxed. Regarding the experience of reception, Virgo country Japan has compiled many theories, and the favorite of these books is the Encyclopedia of Reception published by the Japanese Cultural Bureau.

How meticulous is the Japanese writing? Is to list all the folds of all kinds of clothes. This book teaches a lot of practical tips, not a big move to change the spatial pattern, but an idea that you can keep the space clean as long as you get used to it. Find a weekend and store it according to the method in the book, one place at a time. Slowly, home can also become your ideal, clean and comfortable, and what you are looking for can be found in 10 seconds.

04 | Building My French Home

When I saw the cover of this book in the bookstore, I decided to buy it, because it was the real French style in my mind. Plain walls and floors, mottled painted dining tables and chairs, faded gold photo frames, like desk lamps and candlesticks in museums, like flowers and green plants picked at random in roadside gardens ... Different from flawless French style, the real Paris is so old and decadent, but extremely charming. The author has lived in Paris for 20 years and is obsessed with shabby and chic style. He used the case of 2 1 Paris home to bring us a retro home style different from exquisite decoration.

"The props that accompanied someone for a long time ago have now come to the eyes through the years. Cherish every prop, such feelings are full of Parisian life. Even old apple wooden boxes and antique jam bottles can become beautiful decoration protagonists. " In order to create a shabby and chic style, we can not only go to the flea market to look for antique items, but also sum up the daily methods we can learn, such as how to match withered flowers, how to use dim gray furniture to make our home look more fashionable, and how to turn over old and new furniture. After reading this book, I have been eager to go to the countryside to find some old rattan chairs and wooden boxes to put at home and try to match old and new furniture.

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