A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Home wasn't built in a day.
Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.
A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
My house is basically like Halloween, 365 days a year, with my son.