Baby steps or giant leaps?

Staring at a white screen to write my first blog with the cursor flicking and comparing this to being caught fresh out of the shower by the window cleaner when I lived at my parents. Here we go. I’ve read many blogs over the last few years on all manner of topics and I’m most at ease when there’s no big fuss, no fancy words and no links please (I already have too many tabs open). If you’re with me then you don’t even need to grab a drink, this won’t be a long one.

Perhaps in a first blog post the sensible place to start is a brief introduction; I’m Charlotte (three quarters of Chestnut Interiors & Lifestyle) and Lee makes up the other quarter, although I’m sure he’d disagree. It was with much encouragement from friends to make my hobby a job; whilst it is far from full time work now there is nothing to say it’s not possible in the future. I’m embracing all opportunities as they present themselves and I guess that’s the bread and butter of this journey.

Embracing everything. My passion for interiors was there even as an eight-year-old, I lost count of the amount of times I charged up my inner Pippi Longstocking and emptied my box room to put it all back again. Twenty years later living in a newly renovated 140-year-old cottage I viewed a 1960’s bungalow with nothing going for it other than potential. The bathroom was pink, a hole in the ceiling and a radiator you could catch a disease from, a pine cladded kitchen, moss covered car-port and patterned carpets screamed “DO IT”. Probably only to me. Here was one of those opportunities to either run from or embrace and I chose the latter. In most recent years through some ups and downs my home has been my saviour and most certainly where the strong urge to align home and lifestyle began, especially here at home in This Hopeful Chestnut where Chestnut Interiors & Lifestyle became a vision.

For now I’ll keep it short and sweet and save the chat on mindful interior design for another day. If you’ve read my first blog post to the end, thank you, now take your own leap of faith and trust the process for you never know where it will lead you.

Charlotte