Today on the blog, I’m going to share with you the part of our home that I’m least likely to share with anyone. What? Why? I’ll explain. . .
We moved in to our home three years ago at the end of this July & we’ve made it our own in so many ways. In the early days after moving in, we had dance parties on ladders while jamming out to our favorite classic rock songs with the scent of vinegar wafting through the kitchen as we soaked the walls with a warm water/vinegar mixture to try to pry off the wallpaper border so we could paint the kitchen a bright & cheery “Pineapple Soda” yellow. We quite maturely painted a couple of cute little piles of excrement on the living room walls as we painted them brown instead of the tan/green/maroon/wallpaper border that was going on in there when we moved in. We laughed a lot. We got paint on a few shirts and in our hair. I mostly stuck with rolling while Josh (the patient one) tackled the trimming. And, as some of you know, we took a blank canvas that was our basement (cement walls and floor) and made it into a finished space that we can meet clients. It’s homey, it’s inviting, it’s rustic, it’s lovely, it’s an open floor plan, & it’s OURS. We chose every last detail of that space & we love it. We love showing it off when clients come to meet us there.
But there’s one room in the house that is still, well, unattractive. It’s the last holdout from when we moved in. It has not been made ours. In fact, it’s quite hideous because we started to work on it and left it unfinished.
It’s the master bath. I got a little ambitious & “nesty” one day while pregnant with Tenley & ripped off a bunch of the wallpaper, but that’s as far as we’ve gotten with it. The wallpaper in there is downright stubborn. It’s a pain. We had a lot on our To Do List (as usual) and it got pushed to the side. Every other room in the house has been remodeled to be made to fit with our style except for that room & I really don’t like it when people see it. If anyone sees it, I feel the need to make excuses.
We’ve been wanting to share our basement remodel on the blog because we’re proud of it & we think it looks really great. We haven’t gotten around to sharing it yet because we’ve been busy sharing our clients’ photos, but we will be sharing it with you soon. The thing is, I got to thinking about that master bath & decided it was more important to share today than the basement remodel or our master bedroom remodel or any other room in the house that we’ve put our stamp on. Why? Because it’s a great metaphor for the way so many people (us included!) carefully craft our online presence to project this “perfect” image to the world when our lives are honestly anything but perfect.
Our lives are messy. Projects take time. It’s completely okay to not have everything together at all times. We need to stop putting pressure on ourselves to be everything to everyone. In fact, trying to be everything to everyone at all times is the only recipe for certain disaster.
So today I’m sharing THIS in all of its horrifying glory. 😉 
Trying to be perfect is futile. Portraying your life to the online world as perfect is damaging. So today I’d like everyone to reflect on their lives. Allow yourselves to be okay with the parts of your life that aren’t exactly as you’d like them to be in this moment. Work toward improvement every day, but don’t be discouraged or impatient with yourself in the process. Realize that the climb toward self-improvement is gradual and anything but linear. You’ll have ups & downs. Be gracious with yourself and with others. And don’t compare yourself to anyone else. . . especially not to their online presence.
We’re all complex & full of intricacies. Our lives are made up of so many facets. Perfectionism is harmful & let’s all just agree to be perfectly imperfect & share a little bit more genuinely with others. . . in person & on the Internet.
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