Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
Your home should reflect who you are, so pick a palette that's close to your heart and run with it.
Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.
So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong. . . But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.
A chic home makes you happy and a happy home makes you chic!
I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.
To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.
We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according to their own desires are those who have no desires--which is the majority, actually. People can say what they like, they can speak of abnegation, sacrifice, generosity, acceptance, and resignation, but it's all false. The norm is for people to think that they desire whatever comes to them, whatever they achieve along the way or whatever is given to them--they have no preconceived desires.
Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.
Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.