Tales of a Southern girl in the Middle East: "New" dining room chairs

On traveling

"When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends on them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in difficult situations. And you accept any small favor from the gods with great delight, as if it were an episode you would remember for the rest of your life. At the same time, since all things are new, you see only the beauty in them and feel happy to be alive." (Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage)

23 May 2009

"New" dining room chairs

The attempts to make my apartment feel more like "me" are continuing, slowly but surely. My most recent project was to recover the dining room chairs. I'm afraid I don't have any good pictures of what they looked like "before", but the fabric was dark with a not-so-nice pattern on it. Even though it's simple, I like this new color much better!