A House for Me!

Since I now will be inhabiting a home all by myself, I want it to look just like me. Feel like me. Of course the kid will still be home for most of the summer and then he will return for vacations and such. The dogs will reside and destroy things with me. Even the lone parakeet is moving with me. But I want it to be laid out for my life and taste.

I have been planning rooms. I made little diagrams, made little pieces of furniture, rugs, art and cut them out. I have listed the changes I want to make. The furniture I want to add and delete. Oh Gosh, it is fun. I own a boatload of architectural salvage, stuff I have accumulated for when we would finally have the time to install it. Well, that time is fast arriving.

Only now it is not a "we" but an "I" and it is turning out even better than I thought. I am having bookcases built everywhere they will fit, all made out of salvage. Finally my books will be all around me. I have lots of art walls. Walls that will probably just be a big hodge podge of what I like. I am having another fireplace added. I adore fireplaces, the more the merrier. I am turning the biggest room, the basement, into my craft room. Finally, enough space for me to spread out.

My exercise equipment will be indoors instead of the garage. My holiday decorations will reside with me instead of a off-site storage unit. It will be messy and cozy. It will have dog hair and dog toys. It will be loud with my I-pod. It will break all the decorating rules. I will crowd my shelves with books, books and more books. My furniture won't match and dogs and feet can be on the couch. It will be vintage and have the largest COFFEE sign on one wall that you have ever seen. An old cigar cabinet from Pike Place Market will hold, well, I have no idea what it will hold, but it is a lovely cabinet.

A Babe Ruth bat will co-habituate with a original Blue Dog painting. One whole wall is nothing but handmade art. My lovely four poster bed will be filled with delicious linens and two giant dog beds will take up the rest of my room.

But mostly it will be filled with new beginnings and new times. The old items will remind me of my past, good, bad and ugly. The additions will point the way to a new future. Change is hard, it is also necessary. Without change growth isn't possible. And I want to grow and change. I want to become a better me, a different me. I want to keep so much of the past but I want to embrace the future wholeheartedly as well. Plus, I want to decorate.