Your house is finally clean and tidy and you sit down and put your feet up for a minute with a nice cup of coffee by the side of you and you pick away at your muffin. You feel worn out but it’s that good kind of weariness when you know you’ve done a hard day’s work and you have no regrets about it. A feeling of contentment settles about you and you look around you with satisfaction.
A magazine lies in front of you tantalizingly within reach and you give in and pull it to you, intent on enjoying a well-earned rest. The main cover story springs out at you, entitled ‘Country Home Decor’. Naturally you flip through eagerly to that very section, you had only just seen an article on some stylish country home decor or turning your house into a small country haven in another magazine and it had interested you.
There is page after page of the magazine filled with what can only be described as the most perfect examples of country home decor you can imagine. You gaze longingly at the various styles and furnishings you see gracing the magazine’s pages. A quick look up from your magazine assures you that your own modest home hasn’t changed somehow into one of those lovely country homes you were just looking at.
A sad sigh passes your lips at the disappointment and so you go back to reading your magazine article. You had never thought that you were the sort of person who could live with the country home decor style but now upon consideration you think you just might be able to.
Without your even realising it you find yourself marking the pages that interest you the most, making small mental calculations on how best to achieve the same effect but on the smaller budget that you have at your disposal. After all, it wouldn’t do to spring for that lovely dresser and have to go without your freshly ground whole bean coffee now, would it?
However, you could certainly go for that appealing table runner without any problem. And if you gave all those modern chrome coffee mugs and dinner sets to charity you wouldn’t really be splashing out, would you, since you would’ve done your best for charity and donated all these things unselfishly?
What about exchanging your jazzy blinds for something that’s a bit more in the country home decor style, and while you’re at it perhaps you could even exchange that ugly lampshade you got as a Christmas gift for something a little more country.
The only thing that is left for you to do now is to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labours and gaze with open pride upon your beautifully redecorated home. Furnished, naturally enough, in the best country home decor style that you could obtain from every source that you came across, like that first magazine which spurred it all off way back then.
