So...today on I am extremely excited as well as happy to innovate Rachel, 1 one-half of The Silk Road as well as her fabulous Waldorf Inspired habitation inwards the Australian hills... Light, roomy as well as total to the brim with happy solid plants as well as stunning finds from her travels across the globe I accept been drooling over Rachel's pad for some time..... hence was mega excited when she agreed to part her habitation on as well as Answer a few questions....
1) Can you lot tell us a fiddling fleck virtually yourself as well as where you lot live?
I am 33, married to my soulmate Gawaine as well as a mum to 2 incredible girls, Zaala Zahara as well as Luna Indigo. I am a registered nurse specialised inwards Emergency & Intensive Care as well as I am also a remote expanse nurse for the indigenous communities of remote Australia. That said, at the 2d I’m taking extended motherhood go out from nursing to savour the bliss of beingness at habitation with my girls inwards the Adelaide Hills, Australia. I am also co-founder of The Silk Road, an online shop with artisan made items collected on our travels across the globe.
2) How did you lot notice this beautiful habitation as well as how long accept you lot lived inwards it?
We accept been extremely fortunate to accept been given the chance to alive inwards the habitation that my married adult man grew upward in. It’s an incredibly quirky habitation that has had a beautiful history; his family filled it with music, solid concerts, visitors from all walks of life from around the populace as well as lots of love. For many years it was THE meeting identify as well as I’d peril to gauge that almost everyone inwards our community has a beautiful retentivity tucked away of their fourth dimension spent in this house. We moved inwards 2 years agone as well as although it's much quieter these days, it is real much habitation for us.
3) Your married adult man must accept genuinely fond memories of the place. Have you lot altered it much since you lot moved in?
The amazing unloose energy that came with this habitation as well as the memories of the infinite was withal fresh inwards everyone’s heed when nosotros moved in. It could accept proven to survive a challenge to brand the shift inwards making it our ain infinite whilst beingness respectful to what the habitation in 1 lawsuit was; as well as give our menage unit of measurement fourth dimension to accommodate to the changes nosotros brought. Luckily, our menage unit of measurement were 100% supportive as well as encouraging to modify it upward as well as acquire inwards our own.
4) What are your favourite things virtually living inwards this area?
Our close circle as well as wider network is thanks, inwards large part, to my married adult man as well as his family. He was business office of an incredible community-centered schoolhouse as well as through it I accept formed an amazing circle of friends who I love. Like other Waldorf communities around the world, his network has carried through into adulthood as well as our immature adult woman has similar a shot started her journeying here. It is rich inwards heart and generosity, encourages mindful and slow living, growing your ain nutrient etc. I definitely miss my lifelong friends inwards Queensland that I've known forever but although we sometimes dream of living back in the tropics, we know our fiddling town inwards the hills is definitely now home.
5) Every item inwards your solid is absolutely stunning. Could you lot selection iii objects with a history as well as tell us virtually them?
Many of the pieces inwards our habitation accept been collected on our travels over the years. We accept had some incredible opportunities when it comes to go as well as constitute ourselves inwards some fairly remote corners of the world. One of the hardest things nosotros accept had to carry habitation was a wooden carving of a Fulani lady carrying her fry on her back. She is over a meter tall as well as nosotros constitute her inwards the amazing urban nub of Ouagadougou inwards Burkina Faso. We withal had over a calendar month inwards West Africa earlier going home but nosotros couldn’t go out her behind! So nosotros cutting upward a foam mattress from the local marketplace to identify her inwards a soft protected casing as well as and then she took upward residence inwards Gawaine's backpack equally nosotros travelled onward through Republic of Mali as well as Ghana.
I also dear to collect handmade textiles. My favourite slice is an old heavily embroidered immature mans jacket I constitute inwards Kachchh, Gujurat. This amazing expanse inwards western Bharat is habitation to the Rabari, a semi-nomadic grouping of pastoralists as well as anyone who has a affair for Indian textiles knows that Kachchh is renowned for its incredible artisans. This colourful jacket is genuinely the slice that inspired the creation of TheSilk Road.
Another particular slice is an erstwhile silvery circular amulet I constitute inwards the centuries erstwhile Esfahan bazaar inwards cardinal Iran. Historically, the Esfahan bazaar was an pregnant identify of merchandise on the Silk Road. The amulet was made yesteryear the Kuchi peoples of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan which borders Iran, as well as it is such a symbolic slice to me of our journeying with The Silk Road.
6) Do you lot accept a favourite identify inwards your home?
The bay windows inwards our kitchen as well as living room are such a glorious rootage of natural calorie-free as well as are integral to our 24-hour interval to 24-hour interval movements inwards our home. Everything nosotros exercise revolves inwards as well as around these beautiful bay windows. They are huge, with the added exercise goodness of beingness due north facing which is perfect for our southern hemisphere seasonal changes. There is also an erstwhile rambling grape vine that twists as well as winds its agency along the entire northern aspect of the house, only virtually the windows. In the summertime months the grape shades the Sun with its expansive light-green vinery, as well as inwards the cooler months the leaves plough a rich shade of auburn earlier falling off. The wintertime Sun as well as then streams inwards as well as warms the entire downstairs living spaces. The downstairs of the solid has been built with rammed globe which encourages minimal fluctuations inwards temperature twelvemonth round; the thick walls of compacted globe rest cool inwards summertime as well as the Sun warms the walls inwards winter.
7) What are you lot currently listening too
Loren Kate, an Australian honour winning participant who I accept the immense pleasance of calling a friend. She is a remarkable human as well as storey teller. Her music never fails to go out me with goose bumps or inwards tears.
8) What are you lot currently reading?
We accept a smashing collection of books, mostly non-fiction as well as by as well as large anything related to worldwide cultures, populace issues or stories exploring the lives of people who exercise modify inwards the world. I would dear to tell I was actually currently reading something of that vein, but I only looked over to my bedside tabular array as well as in that location is a real dog-eared re-create of the Bharat Lonely Planet. I re-read sections of it earlier I become to bed each night. Bharat is my heartland, a province that has left such an imprint on me....Plus nosotros accept 2 fiddling people tucked upward inwards bed with us hence I don’t read large books the agency I used to.
9) If you lot could go either dorsum inwards fourth dimension or to a far off reason to catch some interior items where would you lot go?
I experience that our habitation is total to the brim with hence many things, as well as although I dear each as well as every slice that has constitute its agency to us, I experience similar nosotros accept everything nosotros could ever need as well as at the halt of the 24-hour interval it’s just stuff. As I grow older, I similar a shot would survive much happier to go as well as larn amongst NGO’s who are committed to working with artisans to protect their traditional noesis of crafts or provide skills, a condom identify of go as well as income to marginalised or minority groups. This is what nosotros accept ever been passionate virtually at The Silk Road as well as this twelvemonth nosotros retrieve to brand a rigid shift inwards this direction.
10) You opened The Silk Road nearly 2 years ago, how did that projection come upward about?
The Silk Road was born out of a dear of wrapping our global wanderings around us. Lou as well as I wanted to accept little collections, sourced fairly as well as respectfully yesteryear us on our travels. We accept been committed to sourcing from artisans as well as nosotros accept grown steadily inwards the yesteryear 2 years. This is inwards large business office cheers to Instagram as well as the incredible people who accept supported our journey. We experience that many of our followers ‘know' us, they accept watched us go around the populace with our husbands as well as daughters as well as nosotros retrieve (we hope!) they trust that nosotros ever rootage with integrity. We retrieve to similar a shot role our little platform to convey awareness to issues that nosotros experience passionate virtually as well as part these stories with those who wishing to give dorsum amongst us. We volition withal survive artisan based, but with an emphasis on supporting individuals as well as communities who are at chance or marginalised.
11) Whats adjacent for you lot inwards 2016?
Fortunately The Silk Road has ever tied inwards perfectly with our personal plans, the 2 are real interwoven as well as symbiotic. As a menage unit of measurement nosotros volition survive travelling to Kingdom of Cambodia early on inwards the twelvemonth as well as and then dorsum to Bharat inwards the 2d one-half of the year. We dear our home, but nosotros are happiest when learning as well as living out inwards the world.
Thank You hence Much to Rachel for taking the fourth dimension to part her Nest.
You tin notice The Silk Road store online or see their Instagram here
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