What Makes a Room?

What makes a room? What makes a room yours? What is it about our bedrooms that lifts the world off of our shoulders and comforts us like a blanket on a rainy night? What makes it personal?
Is it the colour? The style? How about the furniture?

Well, yes, all of the above, but, there is more to it. Look at your bedside table. Is there a book? Maybe more than one. Maybe a few. A clock, a watch and most likely a phone? Look at your chest-of-drawers. Are there some perfume bottles? An old vase from your grandmother, a candle and a pair of earrings you've had for years. 

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Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into someone's house for the first time, where it's as though you're suddenly seeing a different side to the person who lives there? Sometimes, a person's home is just like their clothing, almost a costume; the cover of a book that just won't budge. Other times, it's as though you're walking right into the person's very personality, their life bared to you on every wall, like a story. The pictures, flowers, bits and bobs that whisper of stories and adventure.

All these little things, these tiny things that make up the big picture of who we are. It's amazing how important but seemingly insignificant these little decorations can seem, and although we shouldn't hold such emotion to material value, we are constantly surrounded by these little things that make up our lives, often helping us shape who we are and remind us of where we want to be.

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