Frankly, over my dead body:
- Glass dining tables. We have one now, in our rented flat, and it’s a nightmare to keep clean.
- Leather tables. We have one of those too, a little coffee table, and it’s also a nightmare to keep clean.
- Slate place mats or work surfaces. Slate just sucks up grease and water and is, yes you guessed it, a nightmare to keep clean.
- Granite work surfaces. Always look dirty and seem to oddly soak up liquids in the cracks in the crystals. Look nice from a distance, but hideous in day-to-day use.
- Small windows. Lots of light is important, otherwise winter just gets miserable.
Here we go with the first collection of Things We’d Like In Our House:
- A secret door. Really, what’s the point of building your own house if you don’t build a secret door into it?
- Oak beams. So beautiful they make me go all weak at the knees.
- A library. Oh yes, definitely a library.
- A cat. Although that’s not really an architectural feature.
- A hot tub!
I’ve realised that, in the course of writing this blog, I am already forming opinions regarding what I would like our future house to have, and what will never, every, overmydeadbody, make any sort of an appearance in our future house.
So, I’ve created two new categories in order to collect these things together in simple bullet points. That means that when we begin actually planning the house, we can just pull up the Things We’d Like In Our House category, and voilá, a ready made list. And we can give our architect a link to Things That Will Never Appear In Our House and s/he can get a fair idea of our dislikes too.
Do try to contain your excitement, and ready yourself for two posts to come…
