Dream House

One day, I hope to own a house. A place I can call home - my own space, my own decor, my own clutter, a place for all my things and for all the things I hope to have.

I want a big house. By big, I mean that it must be big enough to accommodate the number of rooms I'm dreaming of, plus I want each room to be airy, with high ceilings. I can live with having less rooms but it's a must for me to have high, airy ceilings.

Another must for me is that there must be enough space between my house and the neighbors. I don't want to live in a house where I can hear my neighbors taking a bath or where I can eavesdrop on their dinner conversations or where I can smell what they're preparing for lunch. I'm not much of a gardener, so the yard around the house would really be for space, although it would be nice if it was filled with green, leafy things - trees would be best, some shrubs, and so on. There would also be some woods nearby. I want to live in a place surrounded by green-ness. Call me a "province"-girl at heart; nothing feels like home so much as seeing green trees, forests, and hills. It's so fresh, and the air feels so clean.

I'd have a front porch for welcoming guests, and a back porch (optional) for a rocking chair or swing. If not a back porch, I want a swing or a lounge chair under a shady tree.

Inside, I'm thinking of a minimum of 4 bedrooms - 1 master suite and 3, err, normal rooms. I'd like a walk-in closet, so I can finally have space for my clothes, shoes, and bags. Tehee. There will be windows overlooking the yard. There will be at least 2 1/2 bathrooms - a toilet downstairs, 1 in the master, and 1 shared in the upper floor.

Also, I want a separate room for a study/mini-library. The study/library would be a place for books and work. I'd have my own table for my computer, or one big table where I could supervise my kids studying while I surf (for porn) the internet. Then I could have shelves and shelves of books. I guess this would have to be a closed "room" to minimize outside distractions (music, TV, etc).

Then I guess I'd need a music room where I'd put the piano, my guitar, and other musical instruments... like a videoke machine. LOL. Just kidding. Anyway, not really a must - I could always arrange it so that the piano/guitar/etc would be away from the TV/entertainment system - just as long as there is enough space for such an arrangement. Like maybe the piano would be in the living room, while the TV in the family room, with the dining room in between - something like that. So ideally, someone could play the piano and someone else could still watch TV if they want.

So I guess my ideal house would be 2-level. The upper floor would house the bedrooms. The main floor would have a living room, dining room, family room, the study (if not upstairs), kitchen, laundry. There would be a 2-car garage, and a handyman area. Maybe an attic? (Though maybe that'd be overkill, mwehe).

Mmmmm... that would be soooo nice.

Anyway, what brought this on? Well, currently I'm renting an apartment with 3 other people. I'm sharing a room with my college friend, and the space is just right enough for two people. Ideally, anyway. But starting today, we'll be taking on an additional roommate - one of my guy housemates' sister. With a little bit of creative maneuvering, we've managed to squeeze in an additional single closet, plus a double-decker bed to replace my roommate's single bed. Admittedly, it is now a bit of a squeeze in here, but nothing I can't live with (hopefully). I mean, it's not like I wasn't able to share a room with 5 people one summer term in college (yes, five - so that's a total of 6 people in the room including me. Greediness will really do wonders on one's creativity and the ability to ignore the laws of teenage psychology - I think if they could've gotten away with it, the dorm administrators would have thrown 5 double-decks inside that room to get its maximum mileage of 10 people in a single room, nevermind study tables or closet space. So I wonder why I have a dislike of sharing space with too many people? Really. But I digress). On the bright side, having an additional housemate would mean more heads to share in the rent. A big plus, in all.

Well, I just hope everything turns out well. I wrote this blog entry really just to psych myself up. What better way than to visualize what I could do if I had my own house? At least it'll help put to paper, so to speak, that vague idea at the back of my head. Who knows? Someone once said to me, keep visualizing and believing in your dream, and someday, the universe will give it to you. A very comforting thought, eh? So this is my attempt to visualize; as I describe these things, I imagine how it'd look like, how I'd arrange the furniture, how to make it look pretty to me - fine-tuning the details to solidify my once vague dream of owning a house. I know it will not happen soon, and let's not even start talking costs. Yet. But what the hell? If you gotta dream, why not dream big, right? LOL.

Though I really do believe I'll have my own house someday. It's like the line in that song: "I know you're out there, somewhere out there". I'll have it someday. :)