Design + Construction by Paula Dowd – Hudson Abode

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make my home more beautiful. Where should I start? Which room should I begin? It can be daunting to think of all the changes I would like to make, so I needed a method to figure out where to start. So, that’s what got me thinking. I found a really useful question that helped me come to the solution: Where do I spend most of my time? I realized that I spend 90% of my time in 10% of my home. So, I should focus in on that 10%.

I work from home, so I spend most of my awake hours at my desk, yet, I spend more time decorating my living room than I do the one place I spend most of my time. So, the first agenda is to make my home office someplace beautiful; somewhere I can look forward to sitting down at. A great, beautiful desk with a wonderfully comfortable chair. Clean, big, wide, open, with creativity-invoking images all around me. Maybe an intricate photo or painting that shows me something different every time I look at it. In any case, I know where to start now.

But where do I go after that? I want my whole home to be exciting, not just where I work. So I asked myself another question: Where do I spend the most amount of time when I’m not working?

Well, that’s easy… When I’m not working, I like to lounge in my living room, but not just anywhere in my living room, I spend most of my free time lying on my couch, watching a movie, reading a book, or doodling in my notepad. So, maybe I buy the most perfect couch I can find? Then I started thinking even further… I don’t just lay anywhere on my couch, I spend most of my time lying down in one specific part of my couch. I don’t use the whole thing; it’s big. I usually prop my head against the arm rest at the edge of the couch with my face turned to my left to see the TV.

So, I spend 90% of my time on my couch when I’m in my living room and 90% of the time I am laying on my couch, I’m in that one spot. So the question then becomes: Can I find a couch that has an even better place to rest my head? Can I improve that one spot? Little by little, I’ve begun to focus in on the most important parts of my home.

What would your life look like if you spent 99% of your time in the most amazing 1% of your home? Where would that be for you?