Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin (flashbacks to Listen With Mother on the wireless, there). We’re all busy people, and there’s only so much chaos we can tolerate in one sitting. I could write a book, but I’ll keep it to the edited highlights. I thought I would offer up a few examples of my family’s input into my carefully decorated home. There’s a solidarity in showing our reality. There are dedicated #instasham and #instareality hashtags on Instagram for those who show the truth behind the glossy images and, genuinely, every time I’ve ever done so, I have an influx of messages from people who say “ oh, thank god!”. We all also know that very few people actually live like this (if you do, come, tell me all of your secrets!). Whether it’s filtering your face to remove your crow’s feet, showing the pretty field of wildflowers while cropping out the industrial estate beside it, or photographing a coffee table styled with fresh blooms, an intellectual novel and a Diptyque candle, it’s all about presenting the aspirational side of life. We all know Instagram and other social media tends to show the polished aspects of life. The tidy house of my Instagram feed, and dreams If I gave up work, all hobbies and my entire social life, and dedicated every minute to keeping my house tidy, I still don’t think it would be enough. Yours may be the very definition of neat, and relish in having a place for everything and everything in its place, and more power to you, but I think mine have a missing tidiness gene (not from my DNA), and that’s the end of that.
#Creative mess better than idle tidiness how to#
I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not looking for any advice on how to train my family to be tidy. I mean seriously, chaotically, pathologically messy. When I say “untidy”, I don’t mean “occasionally leaves their shoes in the hallway”, or “leaves a teaspoon in the sink after making a cup of tea”. I live with one untidy male, two untidy children and a puppy. And then the friend and I laugh heartily at the very suggestion that the house looks anything like it does on Instagram, in normal life. One of the many weird things about having my Instagram account is that people I know in real life will sometimes say something along the lines of, “ oh, my friend Anna follows you on Instagram! I told her I know you in real life, and she wanted to know if the house always looks so tidy“.
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