Next up: sample from Home Therapy
Mar. 30th, 2023 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutThis is another result of the What Does 2023 Have to Offer for Decluttering Advice exercise. I’m reading it on an e-ink kindle (because that’s how I read books) and I’ve already been sent over to the web to do The Intake Form.
https://anitayokota.com/insider-book-access
I read the form and thought about it. Some elements struck me as very humorous, as we have been working slowly through the process of designing and now permitting and collecting bids on our post-K-12 home.
Questions like these three in particular really made me chuckle, as we have obviously dug quite deeply into all of these things for the design of the Future Home.
Tell me about a friend’s home, a home on TV or in a book, a rental home, or a hotel you loved. What were the rooms and the common areas like? How did it make you feel? What details stood out to you?
Now that you are in your current home, do you desire something better or different? If so, what might that be?
What ideas do you have to expand the wellness aspect of your home: for your mental health, for your physical health, for you, and for those with whom you live?
While I was on my iPad, I pulled up the book in the Kindle App, and sure enough, those pictures that are pretty marginally inspiring on the e-ink screen are somewhat better in color in the Kindle App. And yet still very, very, very much none of them are doing it for me.
She’s quite adamant in her Core Desire section that you answer questions like: “What parts of your house or rooms elicit negative feelings? … What feelings do you wish you felt instead in these spaces? Why do you want these things to change?”
I’m like, uh, there’s some stuff in the basement and throughout the house that represents a compromise between each of us — each of us would just as soon get rid of some things but want to keep others and vice versa. What is here is a weird, evolving function of the inputs of the four of us. (Don’t feel sorry for me; I win a lot.) It’s fine. I could elaborate on this theme — I kinda wish the house was in Seattle, for example, instead of where it actually is, but that’s not compatible with R.’s happiness so here we are. I suppose if I had to nail down one thing to change, it would be that I return to doing most of my writing while in the office, instead of sitting in a chair or at the island counter or at the dining room table. I have a really great desk and a really great chair and so probably I should focus on what’s stopping me spending the time in there and getting it to a point where I _do_ spend the time in there. OTOH, it’s a fucking interstitial spot between my bedroom and the walkin closet. Why _should_ I spend time in there, given all this much more fun space I could be hanging out in? This probably means that my office ought to be in different space in the house, but I am just unconvinced I care enough. Also, I do spend a good chunk of time in there for virtual meetings that I don’t want to be randomly participated in by the rest of the family.
*shrug*
I am apparently quite complacent about this whole thing, which is unsurprising, given that I am not the target audience. It’s probably a pretty good way to get people to identify specific, positive (or negative) goals, so kudos to the author for that.
Caption on a kitchen picture: “Tucking your microwave behind a pantry door is a convenience that helps encourage you to cook fresh meals.” Yeah, I don’t understand that either.
OK, finished the sample, does not feel like a book that I’m going to get much out of nor does it feel like I will enjoy it. It is a really interesting exercise in terms of helping people understand what they want, and helping them change their physical home environment to get more of what they want. The specific examples (up through intention trays) however are a little pedestrian.
https://anitayokota.com/insider-book-access
I read the form and thought about it. Some elements struck me as very humorous, as we have been working slowly through the process of designing and now permitting and collecting bids on our post-K-12 home.
Questions like these three in particular really made me chuckle, as we have obviously dug quite deeply into all of these things for the design of the Future Home.
Tell me about a friend’s home, a home on TV or in a book, a rental home, or a hotel you loved. What were the rooms and the common areas like? How did it make you feel? What details stood out to you?
Now that you are in your current home, do you desire something better or different? If so, what might that be?
What ideas do you have to expand the wellness aspect of your home: for your mental health, for your physical health, for you, and for those with whom you live?
While I was on my iPad, I pulled up the book in the Kindle App, and sure enough, those pictures that are pretty marginally inspiring on the e-ink screen are somewhat better in color in the Kindle App. And yet still very, very, very much none of them are doing it for me.
She’s quite adamant in her Core Desire section that you answer questions like: “What parts of your house or rooms elicit negative feelings? … What feelings do you wish you felt instead in these spaces? Why do you want these things to change?”
I’m like, uh, there’s some stuff in the basement and throughout the house that represents a compromise between each of us — each of us would just as soon get rid of some things but want to keep others and vice versa. What is here is a weird, evolving function of the inputs of the four of us. (Don’t feel sorry for me; I win a lot.) It’s fine. I could elaborate on this theme — I kinda wish the house was in Seattle, for example, instead of where it actually is, but that’s not compatible with R.’s happiness so here we are. I suppose if I had to nail down one thing to change, it would be that I return to doing most of my writing while in the office, instead of sitting in a chair or at the island counter or at the dining room table. I have a really great desk and a really great chair and so probably I should focus on what’s stopping me spending the time in there and getting it to a point where I _do_ spend the time in there. OTOH, it’s a fucking interstitial spot between my bedroom and the walkin closet. Why _should_ I spend time in there, given all this much more fun space I could be hanging out in? This probably means that my office ought to be in different space in the house, but I am just unconvinced I care enough. Also, I do spend a good chunk of time in there for virtual meetings that I don’t want to be randomly participated in by the rest of the family.
*shrug*
I am apparently quite complacent about this whole thing, which is unsurprising, given that I am not the target audience. It’s probably a pretty good way to get people to identify specific, positive (or negative) goals, so kudos to the author for that.
Caption on a kitchen picture: “Tucking your microwave behind a pantry door is a convenience that helps encourage you to cook fresh meals.” Yeah, I don’t understand that either.
OK, finished the sample, does not feel like a book that I’m going to get much out of nor does it feel like I will enjoy it. It is a really interesting exercise in terms of helping people understand what they want, and helping them change their physical home environment to get more of what they want. The specific examples (up through intention trays) however are a little pedestrian.