Guest Column: This Text Won’t Teach You How to Decorate – But It Might Teach You How to See
A home isn’t just a place. It’s a feeling, a rhythm, a way to breathe. It’s your favourite coffee mug in the morning — one that doesn’t have to be special to be meaningful. A home isn’t a collection of backdrops, but a stage for life just as it is — sometimes beautiful, sometimes chaotic.
We often talk about dream homes. But what if the real dream home isn’t a finished product, but something built from small, ordinary moments?
Everyday life is happening right now
We often wait for the next weekend, the next vacation, or some big change – and before we know it, life slips by. But life doesn’t happen later. It happens in the moment – when the dishwasher hums, your phone charger is missing again, and you hear the neighbor’s coffee machine starting up. In the ordinary. In the here and now.
How can we make everyday life better?
The answer isn’t a new planner, a more productive morning, or the perfect shade for the living room wall. The answer is attention. Stillness. A gaze that sees beauty where we’re not always used to seeing it.
A hair tie on the door handle, left behind during an important phone call. A coffee cup drying by the sink, with a little bit of morning still resting at the bottom. A jam stain on the tablecloth, quietly reminding you that brunch turned into a deep conversation.
Home is a place where you can be unfinished – and still feel completely at ease. It’s a space where you can be carefree, but not careless. Strong, but not hardened.
That’s why Leona’s idea – “Naturally at home” – is more than just a slogan. It’s a way of being. A home is allowed to look like life, not a catalogue. It can adapt, evolve, live alongside you. A home isn’t meant to make you a better version of yourself – it’s meant to let you be exactly who you are.
Everyday life isn’t just a phase in between. It is life. And home is its quiet anchor. A place where you’re allowed to just be – you.
Maybe that’s the secret of home: it doesn’t demand, it receives.
And once you understand that, everyday life starts to feel a little better. Maybe even a hundred times better.
Suvi Kinnunen is a marketing entrepreneur, everyday aesthetician and property investor. She believes beauty is found in the details, that home should look like life – and that everyday life is more than just schedules.
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