Niches

I would love to have little niches built into my walls, like Cretan houses or the old artists’ houses in Santa Fe, with their painted wooden cupboards and worn stone floors.

It would be nice, too, to have bigger niches to nest in, I think, padded with bright-striped hand-woven cotton, as inspired by this quote:

I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves... 

—Pierre Loti (French novelist and naval officer, and wine bar in New York)

image:  Christie B. Cochrell, Candle Niche