Slow Homes for Fast Women: A Challenge (and Makeover!)
February 12, 2010 at 12:50 pm, by Louise Sloan
I recently got an email about Shannon Honeybloom (that’s her on the right), who was touted as a “major voice in the slow home movement.” Shannon’s new book, Making a Family Home, promises to show me how to slow my home life down, trading microwave meals for home-cooked dinners and trading frantic trips to the grocery store for “simple trips to your own outdoor pantry: a garden.”
That last part made me laugh out loud (living off my Brooklyn windowboxes? Yeah, right!) and I send Shannon a challenge. “I am the single, working mom of a 3-year-old, living in NYC,” I wrote. “How the heck do I slow down my life? I need a slow-home makeover!”
Shannon wrote back with 5 tips, which you can check out after the jump. Turns out I’m already pretty slow. I cook most nights and we don’t even have TV—I shut off cable service to save money and because I never had time to watch it anyway. But I wrote her again, demanding to know exactly how I’m supposed to get home from work at 6, make a home-cooked dinner, spend quality time with my son, get him bathed, teeth brushed, stories read and in bed by 8 and do it all the “slow” way.
My son is quite excellent at slow eating and slow bathing and slow playing, I told her. But he needs to get to bed on time, and—especially on nights when there’s slow cooking—sometimes we’re so delightfully slow that he stays up until 9:30. How do we be slow and fast at the same time?
One new idea she gave me: Prep veggies on the weekends, as soon as you get them home from the grocery store. That could definitely save me a lot of cooking time.
Take a look at Shannon’s ideas and then tell me how (or IF) you manage to be slow… in a fast and efficient manner! I need more tips!
Five Tips to Slow Your Home, from Shannon Honeybloom:
Unplug. Turn off the TV. Turn off the computer. Turn off the
cellphone. Take a deep breath. Enjoy some family time or some alone time
without all the background chatter of technology. (Don’t worry, it will
all still be there when you reboot).
Play. Children need time to play freely (and adults also need time
to do something fun—such as reading a book, playing the guitar,
painting a picture). So cut back on some of the extracurricular
activities and let them play. Just play. If you have to schedule in
“free play” for your children and for yourself to make it happen, then
do so. Creativity and imagination can’t be rushed, to take the time to play.
Be Mindful. Be conscious of the choices you are making for your
family. For example, if you are purchasing something, step away for a
moment. Take your time. Ask yourself if it is really something your
family needs. Be thoughtful about the things you bring into your home,
the food you feed your family, and the activities that you schedule for
your children. In general, slow down your consumption, and be green
about the consumer choices you do make. For slow décor, choose vintage,
natural and homemade items.
Create Slow Routines. Healthy and slow routines help to make Slow
Living a habit. To start, create a slow bedtime routine for your child:
Bedtime with the kids doesn’t need to be cranky or frantic. Instead,
slow down and light a candle, read a story, sing a song and sit together
quietly for a couple of minutes before lights out.
Connect with nature. In general, nature has a lot of slow rhythms—
gardens take time to grow, and the sun never rushes the sunrise. Get out
in nature, take hikes, splash in a stream, have a picnic, lie down in a
hammock, walk in the park. Just walking, traveling by foot, helps to
slow us down, literally.
Feeling slow now? Slow down a bit more, and take a moment to leave me your comments and tips on how I can be fast and slow!
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88 Responses to “Slow Homes for Fast Women: A Challenge (and Makeover!)”
Written on February 12, 2010 at 5:55 pm, by Katrina Phillips
In my interiors work, which is often with a family, we All (children included) take time to think about how the family lives and wants to live. And we take the slow approach. These are not ‘instant makeovers’. Small examples of this are: we create comfortable, quiet areas where children, or the whole family can sit and read. We find lovely big tables, or have them made from sustainable wood, where families can sir down together for meals, or where children can do ‘arts and crafts’. I actively encourage children who come to my shop, or with whom I am working, by giving them offcuts of fabrics to create interiors for their dolls houses, or greetings cards with for example.
I have at least five children (with fantastic names: Elvis, Hunter Amber, India…not to forget Flora and Scarlett) who come to my shop simply to Touch and Look at the mineral stones we have.
Recently, this interest sparked off an entire design scheme: we have used minerals over decorative objects on the bookshelves (alongside lovely old books, ones with beautiful plates that children like to look at), I sourced a reclaimed floor from a natural history museum, and we mixed our own paint colours based upon natural inspirations (the colour of an olive tree if you squint at it from a distance…).
A blackboard is a lovely addition to any family home, as big as possible. When my children were small, we made almost an entire wall into a blackboard, or do I have to call it a chalkboard now? We drew pictures on it, we drew entire bedtime stories on it, as well as writing messages. My children knew that they could draw on the board with chalk, and they never drew on the walls or furniture….
I source ‘slow grown’ pieces for my clients: handmade tables, gorgeous hemp fabrics from Italy (hemp is a swift-growing plant, uses very little water, and is easily grown organically), ethically traded cutlery and other home ware: pieces that actually contribute to the lives of the people who create them. And of course, the greenest solution of all, antiques.
Yes, sometimes it costs more, and you have to wait. And I don’t want to sound preachy – I’m just not sure how long we can all expect to sustain the Buy It Now Buy It Cheap mentality. And it is not what I want to encourage my children to believe in.
So, it is really about asking yourself and your children: how do we want to live? What do we love? And taking time to find it. It is so enjoyable to introduce things that have a story into your home.
Now, I am no hippy, and I ain’t any seamstress either…But..and here is a tip from the inside: patchwork is making a big comeback in interiors. yet this is not the patchwork us in our forties may remember with both sentimentality and slight horror.
I am talking about Big squares and rectangles of lovely vintage linen, combined with linens and soft velvets you may have left over from cushions, curtains…think De Le Cuona, think of the lovely patched, faded sides of an old fishing boat…
and think, again of Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colours: a lovely gift for a child of any age, is to make a quilt of their favourite bits of clothes, pieces that mean something to them, their first sheet….
we don’t want our children to inherit a whole pile of Ikea furniture (or rather the land-fill it creates), we want them to cherish their home, to inspire them with a collection of minerals, to love their home so much that they want to Keep Coming Back.
Mine are now 20 and 23 – and I am so so happy that they do keep coming back, I really am. My son, whether it is of anyone else’s taste or not, has created his own collection, now beginning to be mounted and framed, very grown up, of ‘found things’. It is rather beautiful, even though those things include a sun dried flattened frog he found whilst cycling in Normandy, and a dried up piranha fish….now framed, it all looks quite beautiful!
I hope that is, even in a tiny way, inspiring. Love.
Written on February 13, 2010 at 4:52 am, by Katrina Phillips
Oh, and as regards the fast:
the slow way with your home means :
you make less mistakes..that is more efficient.
You purchase and create things that have been considered, and to which you react with joy – that is not only more efficient, it saves you money, and makes you happy.
To create space for the slow pieces, you Clear Anything that makes you feel bad, it doesn’t matter which aunt or mother gave it to you, if you don’t love it, get rid of it. And that means Anything that makes you feel bad, guilty, or negative – those things drain your energy and that adds to inefficiency.
Groupings of similar objects adds a sense of calm.
Personally, I am the sort of creative who makes messy piles of cuttings all over the place – however, I have been Taught ( I needed to learn those things) by a very efficient Order Restorer (that is her Job Title), how to group things to make life easier.
Some people do that naturally.
In interiors terms I find that easy, I know how things look good.
So – here, I am talking about Storage. For me, cupboards are a nightmare, and I have learned that open shelving and drawers are easier for me. The open shelving forces me to keep an eye on the redundant. If I could I would have one of the new drawer fridges for example, so I could easily see what is in there!
The order restorer showed me how to group clothes, etc etc. to make life easier – it doesn’t mean I can do it all the time, and many people do not need to learn these things, but I did need to.
For example, I now have a drawer that contains my ‘things for travelling’ – holiday clothes, bikinis, sunglasses – that drawer could easily be put into a suitcase and I would have all I need.
Storage and all its minutiae are well-covered in a book by Sir Terence Conran.
In the previous comment I wrote sir, I realise instead of Sit.
Space Clearing, in the ancient ritual sense, really does create more energy in the home.
It may be that simply the act of a space clearing ritual leaves you feeling better about your home, it does not really matter how it works, it just does.
I have done space clearing rituals on clients houses that had a dull energy, with their permission, though without them being present. Though they do not know what I am doing, afterwards they have said “I don’t know what you did in there but the house feels amazing”.
Space Clearing can involve using smudge sticks to clear energy, some people don’t like the smell of those, sage, so I developed over five years my own spray. The Atmosphere Spray. It is organic and contains essential oils and space clearing essences, smells lovely, and has the therapeutic effect of both grounding and uplifting. As it can be used on the person also, I use it before and after meetings, or just when I need a ‘spiritual boost’.
Another Space Clearing technique is to clap. You make a clap with your hands, until it makes a nice clear clap, and you clap all the corners of a room. Try it. x
Written on February 14, 2010 at 2:04 pm, by Zina
Despite what some parents think your child doesn’t need your undivided attention between the time your get home from work and they go to bed.Perhaps during his/her free play time you can get some other things done. Like start dinner,which has already been partially prepared earlier in the week.Make simple dishes and more complicated comfort food types in a slow cooker/crock pot.
If you pick up as you go there isn’t that mountain of house work that needs to be tackled all the time. Eliminate the amount of toys that they have to play with if they end up all over the place adding to what has to be picked up. UNless he/she is really enthusiastic about clean up time then that can be used to give them a sense of accomplishment and being helpful to mommie.
Let go of time contributed to social organizations that don’t directly benefit your household.I found that as soon as *I* wasn’t available all the time to answer questions from the general public in emails/phone calls others stepped up to the plate.And i let the links of resources on my website sooth my guilt.
If you buy clothes that are coordinates they can be mixed and matched with some pieces warn twice during the work week.I mean really how much sweating[soiling] do you do sitting in an climate controlled office behind a desk.This doesn’t work as much with kids,but you can re-wear jeans before they have to be added to the wash.Change undershirts,but re-wear shirts that miraculously stayed clean. Less laundry means more free time on the clock for other stuff like mattress Saturdays.
I buy my grocery in large quantities at stores in NYC that cater to large families[ not necessarily a Costco].The price per item is less because large families purchases keep the shelves bare. The distance from my home isn’t convenient so when i go it’s with a all inclusive list of items that will most likely last a month or more.Single purchases can be readily purchased at the local grocery of things i forgot to replace or that i ran out of unexpectedly.
All activities leading toward bedtime should be low key with attempts to drag it out squashed immediately.
Written on February 15, 2010 at 12:27 pm, by Lata
I thought it was interesting that so many comments here recommend “buying” some material in order to achieve this – quite antithetical to the point of the article! It’s such a materialistic culture, even people who slow down have to go out and buy things, such as a blackboard, to achieve it
. How about using paper and pencil!
Written on February 18, 2010 at 11:49 am, by laney
My mom was a single mother for 8 months before she married my dad(step dad). I asked her if she felt she didn’t have enough time as i hear so many single moms today complain about and she said,” no”.My father was a breath of fresh air compared to my bum of a real dad.She had all the time in the world because of his help.
My opinion let someone in to help.
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