Home – A Place of Retreat
Home can be a place of refuse and peace from the storms of the world. Home doesn’t have to be a castle or a McMansion, but if it is clean, orderly and beautiful it can help cultivate the sense of calm and wellness.
Our homes can be a safe haven for those we love against the wiles, pressures and stress of the world. A home should be where children gather for protection and comfort as children and as adults, where happy memories are garnered and treasured. As the old saying goes, “All roads lead to home.”
As before mentioned homes don’t have to be huge and expensive, but if money allows there can be beautiful, creative features that can be added with a good landscape contractor to give the home that feel of a refuge and a place of retreat. I recently had the great pleasure to visit two distant relatives; they both have transformed their backyards into places of retreats. Neither one have a particularly large yard but they have installed small waterfalls, pot landscaping, decks and hidden places of beauty to read, relax and refill their personal cups. What a joy it was to eat breakfast nestled among the plants listening to the water trickle over rocks, watch the birds play amidst the trees and vegetation. A landscape contractor can add beauty and variety to an ordinary yard with patios, decks, walkways, water features or even a small hot tub if the budget allows.
By Ryan Coisson