Domino, I'm sure gonna miss you. I've kind of come around to the reality that you, and a lot of other magazines have fallen on hard times and are ceasing publication, but I can't deny that it just sucks. You gave me a guaranteed refuge for at least one night every month, to just hide and savor your pages. I always came back to rejoin the rest of the world feeling completely inspired, never bummed that I couldn't attain those houses and treasures featured on your pages. I really can't say that about other decorating magazines, only yours.
Aside from this last issue being depressingly small, there actually was quite a lot in there. While I am not a shabby chic girl (the opposite actually), that Hawaii house in the 'live the dream' section was straight out of my dreams! I imagine having a place like that when Peter and I are grandparents, that picture above is going straight into my file for "bunk room for grandkids". I picture grandkids (many of them, mind you) all crammed into bunks, sand and flip flops strewn on the floor, dirty feet plopped on respective bunks made up with white sheets. Camp. That's what I'd like. Camp.
The other section I loved a lot was "merge, purge, compromise". I just love watching couple's different styles converge when it comes to decorating, like this one I once posted about. This article reminded me of the convergence of styles between Peter and I. We both lived in our own places before we met, we both had very different ideas of decorating, which seems very irrelevant when you're in love. But I'm pretty sure that no matter how much Peter thought he loved me, when he saw my ball-fringe trimmed lamp shades and dainty curtains with big bow tie-backs make their way into our first home, he was cringing (it was 1993, I no longer do ball fringe and big bow tiebacks, for the record). Its taken 14 years of compromising for us to both a) stop arguing about our completely different points of view when it comes to decorating and b) find those little compromises that seem to make it all work together and actually create something better and unexpected.
