It's not junk if you display it with love

When I look around my house I find strange groupings of stuff everywhere. A bin of outgrown Crocs. A shoebox packed with old family pictures. Some coffee table books that never quite made it to the coffee table. Little did I know that th…

It's not junk if you display it with love
When I look around my house I find strange groupings of stuff everywhere. A bin of outgrown Crocs. A shoebox packed with old family pictures. Some coffee table books that never quite made it to the coffee table. Little did I know that these were all just charming, whimsical and revealing design elements in the making. Something I learned from the book Living With What You Love, by Monica Rich Kosann.
It is a gorgeous interior design book filled with inspirational and attainable ideas on how dust off family heirlooms and show them in a whole new light. My grandmother left me a bunch of mismatched glassware, which I've stashed it in the attic for years. But having seen Monica's book I am going to bring them back out, pair them with a few of my favorite modern glasses and show the whole collection off in my living room. Not only does it keep her memory alive, but it reminds me that we both had a thing for colored glass goblets.

The other thing I love is that many of her decorating ideas are fun, not fussy. I particularly like a photo of a shelf that is lined with a family's old cowboy boots. In fact, this book has got me looking at even that pile of old Crocs in my house in a whole new way. -Betsy

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