Interior Decoration

In a next life, I will decorate houses in the dozen. Not just clippings out of magazines and a house in my mind, but the real thing - in the country, in town, at the beach, on a mountain and one in France, too. Preferably an old winemaking chateau. Or better an old and desperate country house in England, or Bavaria?

Interior Decoration is something which never bores me, never. I just feel elated when I get hold of a good interiors decoration magazin, can snuggle up the sofa and have a good read. After this I am refreshed and would like to start right away - but alas, there are nor will be all those houses to provide for all those pleasures. One cannot have it all: the dreams and then the reality..
So I go on doing it in my mind and until now have not been bored with this neither. The advantage: It involves no costs ( unless in the foreseen future we have to pay to have a right to think for ourselves?) and all is possible - you have always to see the bright side of life.
I have changed houses many times in my life, but almost ever I have lived in nice places. (A dear friend told me once, that I would owe him a new addressbook, if we would keep up the speed of moving - his M-Page was full in a mo!) Not big houses or appartements sometimes, but nice. In my childhood I had the privilege to grow up in a big house with much space and a huge garden. There were not enough rooms for each of us, but it did us no harm to share. I had also the privilege to see and take in many old country houses, some of them now altered unrecognizably, some still intact - with the oldfashioned courtousy and Gastfreundschaft which is a rare relict of olden golden days.

When I started to study, I was lucky as well: in Munich I lived always in a nice neighbourhood, in Nymphenburg, in Schwabing, then more or less on the Maximiliansstrasse and at last in the upcoming quarter of the Johannisplatz. I have always felt well in my flats, as small as they were - and I enjoyed to live in a WG  ( Wohngemeinschaft - shared flat) - even if this meant that the chap living with Lilli and me never cleaned the bathroom, considering this to be a girls job. It also meant, that my expensive face cream was shared as was the milk I bought. But the company was great and the fun we had together is unforgettable. The start of a wonderful and still ongoing friendship.
All my rooms and interiors seem to look the same - I have very early developped a style of my own, being more "mine" as the years advance and I see the world. Or at least I hope.

Entree of House Wittgenstein in Vienna

Recently I get more and more interested in modern art and architecture - most of it is still a mystery to me, but I could imagine to live in a very modern and streamlined house - but only with my own furniture and my own way of arranging it. It could look very interesting indeed. The idea is not mine - alas. I picked it up most certainly in the fotographs of the interiors of the villa Ludwig Wittgenstein built for his sister at the beginning of the 20th century in Vienna. One of the most refined interiors I have ever seen - timeless, elegant and without any dust and historic ballast. Shame, that the house nowadays is only to be visited in its empty shell - almost impossible to imagine the interiors as they were meant to be as such. ( for  more information about this marvelous house, please have a look in wikipedia and also on www.wien.info/sights) . The pictures of this post are all found in Google.