for those thoughtful enough.

For those thoughtful enough..

Does it sound pretentious? Am i being a wanker in saying that? What does it actually mean? The thoughts that filled my head as i wrote that tag line, it felt like it fit with everything I’ve created. I care, sometimes too much, everything I do has more thought than it should, i know that. Even as I write this my very first blog post. In my head at the beginning I thought ‘hey just be real, let the words flow and what ever comes out comes out’ but now as i type away I’m thinking hmm is that what people want to read, do I come off as too pretentious or maybe a little rough around the edges (just now i had to stop myself from reading over and formatting everything, this is going to be tricky) for a long time i thought everyone was that way, that everyone thought about things from 5 minutes ago to 5 years or even ten years ago, but they don’t, they really don’t. It wasn’t until I met my beautiful fiance Mel that i realised that those over thoughts were something pretty unique to certain types of people. One day while walking the dog I walked past a person and had an awkward interaction, i said good morning as you do in Australia when out walking the dog and passing an unknown person in the street you say “Good Morning or G’day” something along those lines. Any way I said it but in a weird voice and they looked at me weird as if Id just farted in a library or something, and as it was just a fleeting moment and we walked straight past one another the person was gone before i knew it, why they were weirded out will never be known. I thought about that interaction for days to come along with so many other things. Until I told Mel about it maybe a week later, to which she responded with “why the hell are you still thinking of that, it means absolutely nothing to you, its not worth the energy to give it a first thought let alone a second, third, fourth and so on” it was in this moment that i realised i bloody over think everything and that thats not ‘normal’.

I have actually gotten better as the years roll on from that moment with my over thinking, we now have a beautiful baby girl and life pretty much revolves around her and the lack of sleep and very little down time outside of baby/work/husband to be/person to be thinking of those random thoughts constantly. However i feel as though now i can narrow my focus on the important thoughts, designs, business opportunities, relationships, this blog, you know the important things. But was does it mean to be thoughtful enough? I’m not here to judge although I’d be a hypocrite to say I’ve never or i will never because I do, I do do my best to not in most circumstances. There are thoughtful people and there are not, everyone has their own definition of thoughtful and everyone has different priorities of thoughtfulness. Family, work, money, people, society, influence, the environment obviously the list goes on. The question I’m asking I guess is are you thoughtful enough? Is there more you could be doing? Is there more you want to be doing? In your personal life, in society?

To want to purchase a piece of sustainable, reclaimed, custom designed furniture you need to be somewhat thoughtful, am I right? You’ve got to put some thought into it. Buying an heirloom piece of furniture or homewares means you’re going to hold onto that piece for a lifetime and more. It’s not going to sit there for twelve months and then ‘out on the street you go’ for either some Brunswick hipster to up-cycle or rubbish collection and eventually landfill. No, that things sticking around, it’s staying with you and then hopefully one of your children or a friend what ever, but it has no lifespan, it can literally be infinite. Timeless design, hardwood, high quality finishes means that your piece of custom furniture will last many many years, and then when it’s done everything it needs to in the form that it’s in it can be turned into something else, become reclaimed again, start its life once more. So are you thoughtful enough to want to have a piece of furniture for longer than a dog, a child, a house? That’s what i think of when designing my pieces, what does this piece of furniture’s life look like? And can i help it in any way at the end of this life transition into another life and so on? I spend many hours thinking that and i hope that with every piece i put out into the world thats a piece of single use twelve month cycle furniture not sold and dumped. I mean I’m not stupid i know these big corporations aren’t going to notice little old me and before the next run of Eames knock offs they say ‘Hey there’s this guy, he sold an heirloom piece the other day so scale that order back a couple’ but you know I’m here doing my best and if we can get more people buying sustainable furniture or anything sustainable then we are doing something. We are, thoughtful enough… Thanks for reading, thanks for allowing me to put myself out there, now buy something! I’m off to bed.