Come Home

 J has just returned from a work trip to Japan.
None of the trauma of last time, thankfully.

 Not quite as many gifts as last time either! One of my gifts this time was a magazine. I had asked him to look out for Come Home magazine.
I am not quite sure where I got the name from but I had an idea that it was a craft/home style magazine.
He found one this time and I have been quite excited to flick through it.

 Of course it is entirely in Japanese so i have no idea what it is about but it does have lots of great pictures, styled in a very Japanese way (well, they are to me).
Pictures like this one above of a set of shelves, if only I had only one, box, a bottle and a small jug to store, this would be how I would do it!

 The pages are generally room layouts, showing a very simple, homely style.
Lots of naturals, woods, baskets etc.
 Pretty, attractive clutter so they must not have any of the plastic tat we have in our homes (!)
No T.V either!

 If I had corner shelves like this then I am sure I would only put the 8 things you can see on them. Life would be so much easier with less stuff.
Actually I think the Japanese do tend to have less stuff as many live in such small spaces. The trouble is that we know that house magazines give an idea of the décor but not really the reality and I am trying to judge how true all this is.

 I love this idea of shelves in front of a window. A good way to display pretty glasses and hide dirty windows.

 Just in case you like some of these ideas the magazine has some instructions for you.
 It all seems very simple and straightforward.
In fact I am not quite sure what is stopping me......

 I really, really like this idea of a little basket for cutlery to take to the table.
 It  might stop the 4 year old from dropping it each day.
 In fact she might even enjoy carrying a little basket and not moan quite so much about her daily job of laying the table.
Its a machine sewn coilwork basket in such pretty colours.

(Big sigh) My wardrobe could look so pretty if only I had 4 white dresses and 4 white shirts to store. 

 Then I could live this simple lifestyle, getting my pretty white shirt splattered as I cook!
it would all be so charming and sophisticated. Actually lets just have a closer look at the shelves,
ah yes my sophisticated life would definitely have SPAM on the shelves.

I have just re-read this post through and in places I do sound a bit sarcastic but its not meant to be really. Its a great magazine I just have this approach to all lifestyle/decor magazines.
Maybe it's just I seem to be having tremendous trouble with my lifestyle.