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Stones to Strengthen the Bones

Designers will often refer to a house as having “good bones”. When a home has strong, clean design, there is little need for clever efforts in the decor department. You can choose elements, colors and objet to enhance the strength of the home’s character, but there’s no covering up. Of course, sometimes we have to make do with an imperfect home: a baffling window placement, a challenging room size, an engineering oddity. And rather than be frustrated, we can take the wabi sabi view of living and …

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Living a Wabi Sabi Life: an Interview with Robyn Griggs Lawrence


A few years back, Robyn Griggs Lawrence wrote The Wabi-Sabi House, a book about the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection. Lawrence, also the EIC of Natural Home magazine, recently took some time out to chat about her wabi-sabi life, and offer EcoSalon readers tips to begin creating their own.

Wabi-sabi is not a decorating style, but rather a mindset, with no list of rules. Creating a wabi-sabi home, she says, is the result of developing our wabigokoro, or wabi mind and heart: living modestly, learning to be satisfied with life once

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