Why you should photograph your home
source I bet you have stacks of photos in albums or boxes (if you are of a certain generation) or stored on external hard drives, on online sites like Flickr or in the cloud. When you sort through all of them you may be surprised how few of them actually reference the physical attributes of your home through the years. I went looking for photos to do an entirely different post, and ended up writing this one instead because I didn't find what I was looking for. Whenever I see panelling I am instantly brought back to my teenage years. I don't need a photo of my siblings at that time. That one decorating trend conjures up all sorts of memories, and is as powerful to me as a photo of my family. Add orange and avocado chintz fabric on a sofa and the memories are complete. That's the power of our physical environment, the power of place. And who can forget avocado green and harvest gold if you lived in the 60s and 70s? It was the b...