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The MAGIC ROOM is the room we all deserve. Look at the rooms in the home fashion magazines—these are MAGIC ROOMS. We can imagine living some kind of wonderful life in each of them. One room says, “I am glamour, I am fun, I am all white satin and cream for rugs and clear Lucite tables and a single orchid.” Or a
family room says, “I am all masculine leisure—stone fireplace, bear rug, antiqued leather sofas, and oak-paneled walls.” Another room breathes, “I am the nursery, I am innocence and lace and lullabies, a soft tinkle of Brahms on an antique music box. I am love and pink fuzzy blankets and little pillowcases embroidered with ‘Now I lay me down to sleep’.” We’ve all admired rooms like these, so why not have one of your own? Anybody can. Believe me, it’s just a matter of reading on and tackling the problem step by step.

Failure of the imagination is a terrible kind of mal
Lose that grips us when the living room is covered with dust and old magazines and children’s train sets and cat hair. It is a disease that strikes the unwary Messie who thinks that if she could just get it all cleaned up once, everything would be all right. But then what would she have when she’s done? Perhaps a tidy, bare living room. Inoffensive—yet uninspiring. We need to be uplifted and buoyed by the beauty of our surroundings, not bored and depressed. But before we can even get the energy to clean out a space, we have to have a beautiful mental picture to inspire us toward getting out the wheelbarrow and going at it. This vision is of the MAGIC ROOM.