Little Black Home: A Style to Call My Own: Travel

As I begin to conclude this series, I want to make sure that this category does not get overlooked, as it is one of the most important. Just to give you a little background…Growing up, my dad would never fly in planes (still hasn’t) and my mom had been the daughter of a Chief Master Sergeant in the Air Force as a child and had already done her fair share of traveling and then some, so the only places my family and I ever visited really were the surrounding states here in the southeast. To this day I’ve not been out of the U.S. and I definitely have the “itch”. I’ll never forget the first time I went on a plane- it was with a design class and we went to Chicago. I was 22 and have never in my life been so excited! I must have taken 300 pictures of the clouds and the ground below from my window seat on the way there. I was awe-stricken. The second time was to L.A.- again, hundreds of pictures. I LOVE to fly!! After being to these pretty big cities when I hadn’t ever really left the southeast, I got the “travel bug”. I can remember as a kid thumbing through boxes and boxes of pictures from when my mom’s family traveled around the world and also being fascinated by all the trinkets and what-nots my dad’s mom brought home from her globe-trotting. I just never got to go anywhere myself. My husband’s been several places out of the U.S. and we have big plans to travel all over the freakin’ place! Until then, I thrive off of other people’s photos, souvenirs, and tales of places far, far away. One day I will have a passport with my name on it, and one day I will have one of those suitcases covered in stickers of all the places we’ve been together…

I want to go everywhere! Africa…

All over Europe…

(Scotland)

(French Riviera)

(Greece)

(Ireland)

(Turkey)

(Italy)

(Spain)

(Germany)

China…

Japan…

India…

The Caribbean Islands…

South America…

(Easter Island, off Chile)

(Iguassu Falls- Brasil)

(Mayan Ruins- Belize)

I will be featuring interior design from different countries in the near future, but for now, I’ll show you general ways I would incorporate travel-inspired design…

Globes & maps!…