We loved Abby's recent post about using a friend's home to decompress (sometimes you just need to get away from it all). In addition, it's important to have a spot in your home (besides the living room) that's cozy. Often times, the television and a considerable amount of foot traffic makes for a distraction-filled space (and there's nowhere left to retreat)...
Find a corner of your home in a low traffic area where you can quietly read a book or think quietly. It doesn't take a ton of space--a chair, some pillows and a reading light is sufficient. We love Alison's cozy spot at the end of the hallway. A recently recovered chair and a humorous cross-stitched pillow makes for a comfy zone. To us, the soothing pea green back wall mixed with the fun texture of exposed brick reminds us of our time spent on the east coast.
Apartment Therapy readers, in your home--do you have a spot besides the living room that is your retreat away from it all?
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Comments (14)
thats a pretty good idea !... unfortunately i do not have one in my house :(
That chair doesn't really look inviting. Would anyone actually ever sit in a corner of the hallway to read a book rather than in the living room?
while i love the idea, i don't love this photo. if i was in that chair, i would feel as though i was on a time-out
I do love the idea of the funny cross-stich!
Great idea, not-so-great illustration. It does kind of look like a time-out corner...but, then, maybe that's what some of us need. : )
i think this is a great idea! i could imagine myself getting cozy talking with an old friend on the phone in that spot.
I had a really warm older friend in college who had an apartment near campus. She created a little spot in her apartment she called "Donna's fun spot." It really was. She had graduated with a degree in horticulture, and had cultivated some really unusual house plants, placed a comfortable chair and a little table nearby, and lit the small area with a hanging pendant lamp.
I think if I was sitting in a lone chair off a hallway or nook, I would so feel five again and being in time out for something. It wouldn't be five mins before I would venture back to the living room or something.
Luckily though the fiance and I both love to hang out in the living room, there is a futon in the spare room (the office/guest room/sitting room/storage/etc room actually) with a good lamp where sometimes I'll go to read if he's watching television. It's all about dual-purpose (or more than two) spaces.
Relaxing? I wouldn't read in the corner of a yellow hallway while an angry vagina was staring me down but hey, that's just me.
Relaxing? I wouldn't read in the corner of a yellow hallway while an angry vagina was staring me down but hey, that's just me.
thank you. i was so hoping that it wasn't just me.
I'd like to know what color yellow that is, but wouldn't want to chill out there.
I was really only reading the comments to see if any one saw the artwork as I did. Thans Kevon and nevergirl.
I never know what to do with sitting spots. Without a television or my lap top....I would just be sitting there feeling stupid and lonely.
This is actually a picture of the hallway in my apartment--thanks everyone for the comments. It's funny that so many of you share the same thoughts I do about it! I really think the sentiment of having a relaxing place to chill out is important (it would probably be our back porch). I've always liked the poster, which is actually an Interpol poster of a sideways eye and a gift from a friend, but I can't look at it for long periods of time because it's so, um, eye-catching. That's why we hung it in the hallway--limited exposure and it distracts from the big vents in the hallway.