The 2000 book Meditations on Design: Reinventing Your Home With Style and Simplicity by John Wheatman has a table of contents that summarizes, mantra-fashion, big themes of awareness and connection — applicable to making a lovely living space:

Reinventing Your Home

Looking Inside

• Edit what you have
• Rearrange things
• Make the most of limitations

Bringing the Outside In

• Invite nature inside
• Let nature and travel inspire the colors in your home
• Collect shadows, textures, and reflections
• Find a light for every purpose
• Build a room outdoors

Memory and the Things You Love

• Display the things you love
• Invest in quality
• Realize that something special is often very simple
• Look at the space around an object
• Discover new ways to store things

The Poetics of Home

• Create focal points for each room
• Buy furniture that is flexible
• Work with illusion and scale to alter your space
• Pay attention to transitions
• Plan a kitchen that helps you cook
• Design children's rooms to expand with their imaginations
• Set aside a place in which to be happy alone
• Learn the art of sharing your home

A Good Room Is Never Done

... great thoughts to inspire creativity in building a personal space-time!

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