KinAesthetics

We love learning about our collective family heritage through holiday gatherings in which we share traditional meals and make traditional crafts together, but lately two regions from our expansive, collective heritage have really been inspiring our sense of aesthetics: Scandinavia and Japan. As you may have gathered on other pages of this site, we are kind of obsessed with using natural materials in every aspect of our lives, and that is a huge component of both hygge and wabi sabi design. When we began designing our new homeschool space, these two concepts turned out to be the perfect fit for a tranquil and cozy Waldorf homeschool setting, especially in our attic where the bones of our house are exposed through all sorts of rafters and roof angles. 

We live in a bit of a bubble so we were a little late on the explosion of hygge in mainstream culture. We actually stumbled upon it while searching for Waldorf interior design ideas. We had previously heard of wabi sabi, but had only considered it in terms of pottery, never a whole design aesthetic. If you are not familiar with hygge and/or wabi sabi interiors, and you love natural materials, coziness and embracing imperfections as character and evidence of an object's or space’s history, perhaps we'll inspire you to check these concepts out.