Sunday Stewardship: Wrap Up On Our Mini Version “The Beautiful Issue”
When a project is over and it’s time for us to leave, my deepest desire is for Clients to live more beautifully than the cameras record
It’s a funny thing to create a decorated space
We find a place for everything, set it just so…the stylists are brought in for the camera, the flowers are fresh the photographs are snapped
and then we leave
Does the client sit on the sofa?
Does the teen plop on their new comforter?
Vicuna Wool. Seriously Expensive Fabric…image linked.
Does the red wine & champagne flow?
I hope so
Decorated spaces, in my world, are meant to be lived in
Yesterday, I shared a quote I wrote for someone earlier this year:
“If I decorate or design a beautiful space and the Client is not FREE to enjoy it, it’s like going to the symphony and not being able to HEAR.”
Can you imagine going to the Symphony and saying “Oh, no thank you, it’s too beautiful for me to hear…I will put in my ear plugs and just look…”
Stewardship
The systems we create, the principles we decorate by are designed to make it easier when we leave. I literally designed these systems SO THAT when we leave the client really lives.
Systems & Principles, by nature, are designed to “catch” us when we falter
We build our homes as a place to live our life. I believe you are beautiful and should live that way. It isn’t a perfect process, we get messy, we forget to make the bed…stewardship is a gracious process.
I think it’s why I like designing these systems, because they live practical….they are made for actual people!
They remind me within my own heart to live beautiful
Stewarding “The Beautiful Issue”
It’s this weird place in the process of VALUING yourself enough to take care of your proverbial custom nest, “making your bed” while at the same time not worshiping the “stuff” because it cost so much. It’s letting the teen plop on the comforter when they need to talk and not yelling “noooooo”…..
THAT is the stewardship training that we are after
Decorating for LIVING life. It’s about way more than just making it magazine worthy.
It also circles back to one of my Decorating Principles: A great decorator equips
My job is not to just make it look pretty
My job is to help you live pretty
But in a way that I am “in – and then out” so you CAN
Systems
Stewardship
Process
“The Beautiful Issue”
“Live a custom life. There is only one you.”™
xo Ann
Couture Chateau 
Oh, dear, I find this personally conflicting….I guess if the teen wasn’t wearing muddy shoes, etc….I’m working on this as my daughter says, “you are so set in YOUR ways..” franki
I do too! It’s why I work so hard through it with my clients (& myself)…xo & here’s to process…:)
🙂