ROOMS: a thread. I’m tired of being confined to the same few rooms all the time, and maybe you are, too. Here are some rooms that feed the eye & spirit, in no particular order: No. 13 Breakfast Room, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.

Kogod Courtyard, National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Designed by Foster + Partners & Kathryn Gustafson.

Kitchen (detail), Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul, Coyoacan, Mexico City. Photo by Bethlehem Imaz.

Yves Saint Laurent’s bedroom at his house Villa Oasis, Marrakech. Photo by Miguel Flores-Vianna.

Living area with conversation pit , Miller House, Columbus, Indiana. Designed by Eero Saarinen.

MIT Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed by Eero Saarinen. Photo by Jim Stephenson.

I’ll keep adding to this as the mood strikes me because I crave visual stimulation. Even IG is mostly bread at this point!

Entrance hall, A House for Essex, Wrabness, UK. Designed by FAT and Grayson Perry. Photo by Jack Hobhouse.

It doesn't get much better than James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).