There's been a subtle change in our decor over the past few days. Over the years, we've adopted s minimalist look to our home decor: no elaborate, olde-world furniture with curlicues and embellishments, no soft curves or flowing lines. Where the TV might once have been generously curved, the new ones are stark rectangular boxes. It's been straight lines and sharp edges all the way, recently, in keeping with a no-nonsense approach to life.
However, as I look around the lounge-room this evening, I see a subtle but marked change. And it's all because of several purchases we've made, or acquisitions we've accepted in the past week or so. In the Black Friday sales, we bought a new fan: not a circular, bladed thing with a mesh front, but a sleek, modern one designated as a 'tower'. It's, in fact a tall white plastic cylinder about a metre in height Over the next week or so, it was joined by two smaller versions: a 12 inch one which sits on my desk and a 16 inch one which sits on the kitchen bench to cool the cook.
Yesterday, Jamie arrived with a new internet system, composed of 2 white plastic cylinders, about 8 inches high. The first sits beside the modem in the garage but its twin nestles behind the TV. These cylinders by themselves can'r transform the ambience of our home but it's nice to see some soft curves among the sharp angles.
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