as we prepare to move, i kind of go in waves of being really excited and really sad. probably normal. right now i'm in a period of mourning the loss of my house, which i love with my whole heart, always and forever. i try not to think about the fact that, a few years from now, this will simply be the place we lived for a couple of years. we lived in our apartment for four years, and thinking about it now, it seems like just a little while that we were there.
so in order to stop being all pitiful and dopey and sad, i'm doing my best to look forward to the opportunity to make a new house our 'home.' and i think we might do things a little differently this time. as in, buy a fixer-upper. as in, i think i'd prefer a ranch-style.
if you know me at all, this may come as a bit of a shock. for one thing, i want to strangle the guy who first thought skinny trimwork was a good idea. he seems to have been instrumental in the development of the ranch house. and what is the deal with hollow core doors? people were idiots there for a while.
but, anyway, there are a couple cute ranches we've seen in the cf area, and i'm getting excited at the prospect of a blank-slate house, where i can do whatever i want and people aren't all, YOU'RE PAINTING THAT TRIM?! YOU'RE REPLACING THOSE WINDOWS?! our current house has been a bit limiting in that regard. so i've been busy and squirrelly on pinterest, hoarding photos of kitchens and dreaming of getting to buy a junky old house and making it 'ours.' and that's actually pretty exciting!
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2 comments :
it is iowa and i, like the rest of us, like ranch on everything.
As a fellow old-house-lover, that IS exciting, because if anyone can make a ranch-style house stylish and beautiful, it is you, my dear.
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