My little house: a small tour

It is so cozy and warm. There is a front porch with a nice rocking swing. There is a front room with a big wide table, perfect for spreading out my writing on. Also perfect for my laptop. The afternoon sun coming through the slats in the blinds makes this front room a noir heaven. There is another room on the eastern side, pale blue walls – with a “kitchen nook”, a counter and stools – this counter has become a repository for … everything random. Beach glass. Change. Notebooks. The kitchen is big and beautiful, with a small window looking out over a field and a hill with a little house on top of the hill. The sun sets behind there, spectacularly. There is a steep staircase going upstairs. Three bedrooms. My room is long and narrow, with a sort of dormer window cut-out at one end, where the big bed goes. The walls are a pale green. I feel luxurious and safe in that room. I wake up when it is dark, but my favorite time up there is after my afternoon bath – when the light has started to fade. I love my room. There is a “den” downstairs with a huge wraparound leather couch that takes up all available space and is quite ridiculous and ugly. However, there is one corner where I sit in the mornings – and Hope curls up next to me, and then I don’t mind that it is leather. It is “my spot”. That room is where the TV is. I like it best in there on rainy freezing mornings. I start to get restless in there after a time – there’s no direct sunlight – and so you feel like you’re in a little isolated pod at times, and you must LEAVE it to go join the world.

There are nooks and crannies through this house that I have grown to love. I love the upstairs bathroom, but I can’t stand the lighting in there. I have a candle for when I take my baths, because the lights just grate. I love the watercolors on the wall, lighthouses and beach scenes. I love my porch so much. I think it will be the porch that I really miss.

I’ll post some pictures of all of this when I get home, but suffice it to say, this has been a good house for me. I am now thinking of this past month as a kind of rest cure. That’s really what’s been going on. I am glad I decided to take it.