Inside the Book · Book 1 of 4
the home arrived before we did
The Home Missed Itself Book 1 · A home that dreams itself
33 interior haiku — dreamlike rooms where chairs remember, walls breathe, and silence becomes a presence.
33
Interior Haiku
Dreamlike rooms where objects remember what they were.
43
Pages
Ebook · Oct 2025
4
Books
One home, four lenses: mirrored, colored, geometric, unified.
We began by listening to the home.
We found that objects — between walls, under tables, upon chairs — remember another possibility.
A home is a gathering of presences.
A chair carries the shape of someone who has not arrived yet.
A table holds the memory of the tree that became it.
A wall keeps the afternoon light.
Sometimes this gathering falls apart.
The home drifts away from what it was meant to be.
Then objects begin to remember.
Before the chair, there was wood.
Before the plate, there was clay.
Before the home, there was space.
“Furniture waits to be noticed.”
These 33 haiku hold the moment when things begin to reveal what they have always been.
Read them slowly.
Remain in unknowing.
Within the small, the infinite opens.
Perhaps there lies what the Home missed.
The shape of the table
today is a chair,
and tomorrow it was a sink,
and the day after
it will be a sofa again.
The sink was full
of empty water.
The unwashed plates
gazed at the full sky.
The table became round —
the square chair
noticed.
Contents — 33 haiku and the mirrored last page
- The dresser entered the bedroom,1
- The kitchen celebrates today,2
- The hallway always walked3
- The clock dropped its hand —4
- The old, worn desk5
- The sink refused6
- The flower entered and sat down.7
- The sofa breathed8
- The table set the tablecloth,9
- The guest saw the sofa,10
- The empty hall11
- The stool does not intend to enter.12
- The sunbeam was in the kitchen13
- The pencil jumped14
- The sink was full15
- “All the plates are red,”16
- The shape of the table17
- The sofa did not suppress18
- The cup ran19
- The radio began to play.20
- The nightstand21
- The dining room went22
- The table became round —23
- Next week24
- The leg ran away.25
- The carpet laid itself26
- The desk — ready to create.27
- The sugar28
- The window lay down on the floor,29
- He sat on his chair.30
- The bee poured itself nectar,31
- In the cupboard,32
- The Home found itself.33
- The table looked in the mirror —∞
Brani & Desi
For us, interior design begins with listening. Before we touch a space, we try to understand what is already there. Every color, every surface, every object carries its own story.
There are no recipes here. Only a conversation — and sometimes, a moment when the home reveals another version of itself.
read slowly. Remain in unknowing.
Let the home find itself.
The Home Missed Itself, Book 1 — A home that dreams itself
Free on Apple Books · 43 pages · 33 interior haiku · English
Also available: Books 1–4 on Apple Books and Amazon.
Note on formats: Kindle and Hardcover include full-colour illustrations. Paperback is printed in black & white on groundwood paper, without illustrations.