My name is Chelsea, and I live in Durham, NC at the moment. I am originally from the midwest. I grew up in central Iowa and lived in Eagan, MN for five years. I also have lived short stints in Seattle, WA; Santiago, Chile; and Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Over the years, I have picked up the hobby of refinishing furniture and (amateur) interior design. My husband and I have worked on revamping the colonial-style home we purchased at the end of 2018. I love to play with designing spaces, and my husband is into gardening and landscaping. So, I plan to talk a bit about our projects and inspirations here on this site.
I also plan to, you know, talk about life and other topics having to do with… life. More to the point… trying to figure out what to do with mine.
We moved to North Carolina due to my husband’s work. It has been strangely difficult for me to decide what I’m going to be doing next in my career. I have noticed other people in my life are going through, or have gone through, similar experiences (though they seem to be able to cope better than I have). So, I am here to look at this. I don’t have the answers. I may never. But I do have some questions. I think I’m ready to start asking them.
Such as, like, work. Right? What’s up with that?
How much are we able to design our days for ourselves? How much surrender is required to the way things are or the way they have been?
Where do we draw the line? Do we draw it? Does someone else do it for us? Wait, is there a line?
Things like that.
Like I said, I’m having a hard time with this. I may be making things more complicated than they need to be. However, I can’t seem to ignore these uncertainties. They demand to be examined. I am talking about this here to see if answers can be discovered in corners I hadn’t known about yet.
So, here we go.
Alright. All the best!
design + surrender 