Negative Space : Where my History Lives

( My den today- without its furniture.)



This afternoon

after the painters finished wall repairs

and finished painting our built-ins,

I was blessed with a look at the

negative space in our den.

The space that today is still unfilled.

I had just read

a statement in one of my ‘saved’

Traditional Home magazines-


that the real beauty in a room is found in its negative space-

the space not filled,

the floor not covered,

the window not swagged,

the furniture surfaces laid bare.

And then I thought, it is in the negative space

that the story is.

My den’s history:

*My husband made multiple trips in 1989 across the border into Mexico to Miguel Aleman

to arrange for truckloads of saltillo tiles to be delivered to our home.

Our den is 20x29 feet, which is roughly 580 square feet of saltillo .

He made many trips.


I remember riding with him once and standing in the tile factory

where the saltillo was drying

and seeing paw prints from a dog that had run through the wet tiles.

*And these built-ins, empty and freshly painted today were my first clue

that I need symmetry in my life. 

We added this room on when we bought the house, and the builts-ins

back up to a pecan tree in our backyard.

I designed the back wall of our den to protect that wonderful tree.

*And finally,

when I had the copper top from my island replaced with granite,

I left the copper bar because I couldn’t bear to see it go.


I searched forever for a metal works company in our area that sold sheets of copper

and had the willingness to use it as a bar surface.

And none of these things would be in the forefront of my thinking today if it were

not

for

Negative Space.

What a blessing.



That is where the history is.

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