Your house is finally clean and tidy and you sit down and put your feet up for a minute with a nice cup of coffee by the side of you and you pick away at your muffin. You are worn out but it's that good kind of weariness when you know you've done a hard day's work and you have no regrets about it. A feeling of contentment settles about you and you look around you with satisfaction.
A magazine lies in front of you appealingly within reach and you give in and pull it towards you, intent on enjoying a well-deserved rest. The top cover story jumps out at you, entitled 'Country Home Decor'. Naturally you flip through eagerly to that very section, you had only just read an article on some stylish country home decor about turning a house into a small country retreat in another magazine and it had greatly interested you.
There are pages and pages of the magazine filled with what can only be categorized as the most ideal examples of country home decor imaginable. You gaze longingly at the various styles and furnishings you see gracing the magazine's pages. A quick glance up from your magazine reassures you that your own modest home hasn't changed somehow instantly into one of those lovely country homes you were just admiring.
A heavy sigh passes your lips at the disappointment and so you go back to reading the magazine article. You had never thought that you were the sort of person who could stand the country home decor style but now upon reflection you think you just might be able to.
Now without your even realising it, you find yourself marking the pages that intrigue you the most, doing small maths calculations on how best to create the same effect but on the more modest budget that you have at your disposal. After all, it just wouldn't do to fork out for that lovely Welsh dresser and have to go without your freshly ground whole bean coffee, would it?
But, you could definitely go for that beautiful table runner without too much of a problem. And if you donated all those modern chrome coffee mugs and dinner sets to charity you wouldn't really be splurging, would you, since you would have already done your best for charity and donated all these things?
And what about swapping those snazzy blinds for something that's a bit more in the country home decor style. And while you're going about it, perhaps you could even swap that ugly lampshade you received as a birthday gift for something more country.
The only thing that remains for you to do now is to sit back and enjoy the results of your labours and gaze with beaming pride upon your newly redecorated home. Furnished, naturally enough, in the best country home decor style that you could cull from every source that you came across, like that first magazine article that started it all off way back when.