Meditations on the Personal Retreat Room

I've been going to the 2010 Bucks County Designer Show House and Gardens nearly every day now, greeting visitors to the Personal Retreat Room and explaining the techniques and materials we used to create all the Italian plaster finishes. On opening day, we got such an unbelievable and overwhelming response as people wanted to know everything, and the time went by so quickly I didn’t even know it was time to go home.  When Holly and I were working on the room, time seemed to stand still, too.  I would be finished working on whatever we were doing that day, and not want to leave. The room just seemed to have an incredibly soothing and powerful effect on me.

I hear these comments from people every day:  “The room drew me in”  or “I felt immediate peace upon entering.”  That's just the effect we were after.  We even asked our friend and Yoga-Bodhi instructor Ruth to facilitate a room blessing ceremony a few days before opening, just to be extra certain that visitors would feel the peaceful energy of the space.  My suspicion is that it’s working!  

I think one of the things that is so unique and memorable about the room is that even though it is full of art and design, it also has a kind of emptiness or simplicity about it.  Sitting in the room, I can't help but reflect on my life path and what's most important to me.  

I invite you to experience this wonderful space for yourself! I'll be the other meditating figure in the room....

--Lori