Your house is finally spick and span 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 cake. You feel tired but it’s that good kind of weariness when you know you’ve done a good 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 appealingly within reach and you give in and pull it to you, intending to enjoy your well-earned rest. The main cover story jumps right out at you, called Country Home Decor. Naturally you flip through eagerly to that very section, you had just seen an article on turning your house into a small country haven in another magazine and you were interested.
There are pages and pages of the magazine filled with what can only be categorized as the most ideal examples of country home decor imaginable. You gaze longingly at the various styles and furnishings you see gracing the magazine’s pages. A quick glance up from your magazine reassures you that your own modest abode hasn’t changed somehow instantly into one of those lovely country homes you were just admiring.
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 stand the country home decor style but now upon reflection you think you just might be able to.
Now without your even realising it, you find yourself marking the pages that intrigue you the most, doing small maths calculations on how best to create the same effect but on the more modest budget that you have at your disposal. After all, it just wouldn’t do to spring for that lovely Welsh dresser and have to go without your freshly ground whole bean coffee, would it?
However, you could certainly buy that beautiful table runner without any problem. And if you donated 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 given them all these things unselfishly?
And what about exchanging those snazzy blinds for something that’s a bit more in the country home decor style. And while you’re going about it, perhaps you could even exchange that ugly lampshade you received as a house-warming 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 newly redecorated home. Furnished, naturally enough, in the best country home decor style that you could cull from every source that you came across, like that first magazine which started it all off way back then.