I’ve been floating around all day in a bit of a haze because this was no ordinary day: this was the day that I became a long-overdue full-fledged adult. This was the day I bought my first washer and dryer and fridge and stove. This was the day I purchased hardwood floors and a roof and a bathtub and a furnace and a back porch. And last but definitely not least, this was the day I bought the little yellow room:
I have to admit I love the little yellow room more than anything else in the house. It’s only 8×10, and I have no idea what I’ll use it for, but I love it.
By the way, that photo of the front of the house makes the house look enormous. Only about half of that is my house. I get from the first set of steps to just past the first ground-floor window. Those are my flowers out front, and I will try very hard to keep them alive. I wonder if I’m allowed to plant a tree? (And now that I look at it again, that little yellow room looks awfully bright. I wonder if it’s just my monitor amplifying the yellow or something.)
This is my living room, and it’s not as big as it looks either. Those real estate agents have wide-angle lenses and fish eye lenses that can make a room look curved or as long as a football field. My living room is square and a normal size.
I have a basement! With a rec room! I have no idea what you do with a rec room when you have no kids to banish to it. Is it storage? Is it where you keep your loom and your yarn stash? Or are you supposed to get a ping pong table or a pool table? There’s even a little powder room down there, and a washer and dryer. Right next to my hot water tank and my furnace. I have an electrical panel too. Me! (That reminds me – do I need to buy a ladder now that I own a house? A shovel? A level? A saw-horse? A caulking gun? What?)
My garden is very small – barely big enough for a barbecue, a little round table and a couple of chairs. It’s got some built-in planters so I can grow basil and morning glories and stuff. The next door neighbour has one of those water fountain pond things, and I can hear it from my yard, which is almost as good as having one myself. I have two parking spaces on the other side of my fence. No cars, but two parking spaces.
When you live in an apartment, a lot of stuff ends up in the living room, because really there’s nowhere else for it to go. Like, for example, the TV and the computer and the books and the mannequins and the loom. I’m kind of used to everything being handy like that. I wonder if I’ll keep it like that in the house? Maybe I’ll spread things around a bit. Three bedrooms and a rec room is a lot of rooms for one person. Maybe I’ll have a knitting room and a library and a zen zone.
Anyway, you’re all invited to the housewarming party in November. Details to follow! In the meantime, I encourage you to submit your ideas for how I might use the little yellow room.
OMG…. you bought the house!! Congratulations
I think it’s a lovely cosy house and if you don’t like the yellow colour after all, just paint it another colour…..as an house-owner you can change whatever you want (at least over here you can :)). I am not sure what you should do with this bright yellow room though…..but I’ll think about it, maybe a useful idea will spring to mind
Oh congratulations! There will be both good and bad that you will discover after you move in and start to make this house your home. But focus on the positive! I love the yellow room too. My powder room is the same colour and I painted it. It looks like it is being used as a study. Why not make it your study/computer room? Or maybe the room for knitting/crafts/mannequins? Make the yellow room the place you spend quality time with yourself and don’t double-duty it. You can turn the rec room into the guest room/other duty room. Good for you!
Thank you Dakota and Julia. There are so many rooms – there’s also a brown room, which is a bedroom too. I think the rec room will be the loom room. The brown room will maybe do double-duty as a guest room and something else. The yellow room? I still don’t know! I like the idea of a quality-time room…just a peaceful, comfortable little nook. Maybe I should leave it completely empty for awhile, and see what happens.
Congratulations and lots of luck. I like the yellow room too. A good room for winter; just make sure the lights at night don’t spoil the niceness. Brown sounds as though it might like a coat of paint.
Did you have an inspection? When do you take possession?
My yellow room suggestion: Turn it into a camera obscura.
Directions here
Dave, I love the camera obscura suggestion, but not for the yellow room, since it requires sealing out all the natural light.
The yellow is also in the stairwell and upstairs hallway – I love it.
Gillian, absolutely, the brown room must be painted…I’m thinking pumpkin! But a friend suggested I wait awhile before changing anything…just move in, and get a feel for the house and take my time making changes. Good advice?
The inspection is tomorrow morning, and I take possession on October 20th.
Great Post and Congratulations! You’re new home will be everything you want it to be and then some! When’s your house warming party planned for — I’ll bring something special and some FOOD!
Cheers!
The housewarming party will be around mid-November. That’ll give me time to unpack. Don’t forget, you’re all invited and I really want you all to show up. Details to follow.
Techwood, how intriguing – what kind of something special??
I adore the yellow room. Its awesome.
Congratulations on getting your new electrical panel!
Welcome to the joys and frustrations of home ownership and maintenance!