My Vision Board

A dream, vision or inspiration board is a collage of images that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in your life.  It helps you focus, explore and clarify goals, in hopes of transforming them into reality.  Many use the online version--Pinterest.  I love the idea of Pinterest, but for me it's a vast, bottomless pit of links and evaporated time.  

My (en)vision board is specific to my love of home design.  And "board" is not the right word.  Mine amounts to stacks of pages torn from magazines (yes, I'm one of the few left who prefer a tangible magazine to digital images) and mental photographs that reside indelibly in the right side of my brain.  I collect pictures of what I find beautiful, what I covet and what inspires me.

Here are a few inspirations that I hope to emulate and incorporate into my house.

I love everything about this house--I designed my roof line after the graceful curves here.

I'm hoping to find exterior stone that will resemble this--even a little.

This is what gave me the idea of a greenhouse-style porch.

Here's a cut-and-pasted collage I made of the (above) glass vestibule nestled into an old house, with windows above and peaked dormers on either side.
And as a reminder, here's how it translated into the actual plans.

Whatever you call your dream, vision or inspiration board, it can be powerful and empowering.