Home things, part one.

[mrissa]

Please tell me a physical aspect of your current home that makes you happy. Is it the green paint in the bathroom? The cushions you put in the windowseat? The way the kitchen always smells faintly of bread? The cheerfully overflowing bookshelves? The way the light falls on the landing as you go upstairs after work? The lumpy clay vase your niece made in kindergarten?

Loved ones are very neat and to be appreciated, but that's not what I'm looking for here. No living things above the intellectual level of a fern.

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[jimhines.livejournal.com]

"No living things above the intellectual level of a fern."

My cat, Flit.

Also, the fact that the master bedroom has its own bathroom. Ah, luxury. And the beautiful built-in bookshelves in my office, even though said office is way too cluttered to get to said shelves right now.

[sensational.livejournal.com]

I am very happy that we have a yard, and that there's a brick path made of old bricks all along the side of our house.

I also love the bay window in the living room. It lets in a lot of light and makes the living room an interesting shape. We also have an old part of a sectional couch that fits perfectly into half of the bay window, and it's just the right height that it doesn't block light. We put up blue shades and gauzy white curtains over the shades, so that corner of the living room is lovely even when it's nighttime, and the Japanese-style lamp on the shelves over there is lit up.

[rosefox]

I love the way the living room looks now that we've reorganized it. It's big and open and full of books and couches.

I'm extremely proud of our ability to cram one appliance after another into our tiny little kitchen, and our kitchen organization in general. The new silverware drawer organizers make me smile every time I open that drawer.

I adore sinboy's enormous bed, which takes up almost the entirety of his room. It wouldn't be the right bed for me, but it's just right for him.

When I was growing up, my grandfather would bring us "wishing stones", grey stones with unbroken bands of white around them, from Ireland. There was always a collection of them on the dining table. Last month, while we were in Bray, I picked up several perfect wishing stones, and last night we arranged them on our dining table. Now the table and the room are somehow mine, connected to my life and my heritage, in a way that they weren't before. It makes me very happy.

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

The cat-scarred brown leather chair in the living room, that has broken in to provide perfect comfort at either end of the day (early a.m., sipping coffee and reading blogs, or p.m. after work, sipping wine and knitting).

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I like my office, and the deep magenta walls (2 of them). The art prints of dogwood, and Susan Seddon Boulet's Skywatcher. (http://www.allposters.com/-sp/-Posters_i392235_.htm) I wish it were clean more often, for true enjoyment. I love my ceiling fan. It's quiet and works well and makes bearable a room that is always too cold or too hot.

I love the crabapple trees in blossom.

I love the color on the walls of the living room; it's the color of raw silk.

I love the new baseboard we put up in the kitchen. We stained it, and got the exact color we wanted. It's about the only thing in the house close to perfect or the way I truly want it (other than my office, when clean).

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

our canopy bed and the way the bedroom is all sea-blues. the shiny stove from the 1940s with the double-oven and the griddle on the stovetop.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

I like the light.

And the fact that I can walk to almost everything.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Our bedroom is surrounded by windows near the ceiling, and faces out onto the apple tree in the back yard. Every night, I can lay in bed and see the moon from there. The other night, I woke up after dozing off and the moon confused me. I couldn't figure out what the bright light shining on me was, and I thought it was moving, so I had this thought that a UFO was hovering above my house. Not a proud moment for me, but amusing!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Have I told the one about the glowing portal?

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

I like the fact that the dining room/kitchen/living room area is almost completely open, which makes the small space look a lot larger than it actually is. Makes it much easier for two people to live in a small space!

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

I love my walk in closet. :)

[palinade.livejournal.com]

I really like our deck just outside the kitchen. We eat out there a lot on warm sunny days, and I just planted a box with herbs that I'm already using. It's not big, but big enough for a small table, the grill, and some boxes without feeling crowded or too close to the grill.

[fgherman.livejournal.com]

I love the green & black art deco tiles in our bathrooms - it's really the best thing about the place and the only thing I wouldn't want to change.

I also love the 2 little built-in curio cabinets on the 2nd level. They are sweet.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I like our HDTV. And the purple on the walls in my bedroom with ladysea.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

The windows pointing outside in three directions, and the fact that they all have trees outside them, we're on the first (aka second) floor so we see boughs instead of trunks, and the fact that it's windy enough here that they're usually in motion. I liked that about the master bedroom in our tiny Texas house too: the branches moving outside the windows made it feel like a treehouse.

I also like that our living room here has a large sofa, loveseat and chair, so there's tons of room to sit and sprawl - our last house was a bit deficient in seating area. I do wish they weren't all white, though. (It's a furnished flat, so I didn't get to choose.)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I like the big wall of window behind my desk, which looks out onto trees and the side of the restaraunt across the street that used to be the Gooderham mansion. I like how it lets the sunlight in all day, and there's just enough ledge in front of it to put three trillion potted plants on. :)

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

For smell, the lilies-of-the-valley in the front yard, which are in bloom right now.
For touch, our cozy cotton futon and the wool comforter on top of it.
For taste, the pea shoots that are just coming up.
For sound, the whirrrrrrr of the rotary dial phone that we still use when the power goes out.
For sight, the complex, shifting green color of the paint in my office.
For sentiment, the skate deck (http://www.dh-stores.com/uCatalog.aspx?mid=9&pid=499) hanging in the hall.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I first met pea shoots at House of Nanking in San Francisco, sauteed with garlic. Bliss.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

The green paint in the living room, my red kitchen chairs, and the sari I just hung as a bed canopy.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

The absolutely amazing light we get--in the new place, we're rotated 90 degrees from our prior orientation and it's made a huge difference in how much light we get. We also have double the windows in this place.

I love that we have two bathrooms. And three sliding doors. And that we're on the first floor. And our excellent living room furniture that we bought new (all prior furniture was used). And plenty of storage space (well, once I reorganize some stuff, that is).

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

The walls full of colors: red in the living room, blue in the kitchen, yellow in the hallway. We were going for the colors of Oaxacan art.

The bookshelves in the main living area: 12 feet tall, 14 feet long.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

the light shining through the windows on my landing on Sunday mornings.
the sound of the wind chimes I hung on the porch.
the hammock I set up in my front bedroom.

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this is entirely a physical aspect, but I love the way the house works for us, that it fits us so perfectly. I guess "the layout and floor plan of the house" would by the physical aspect of that.

I love the new transom window that they will be installing in June. Pretty, pretty window with bevels and eaton glass and granite glass.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, there's a whole standing little person in your icon. I remember mrissa writing about her when she was just born, and it seems like a very short time ago.

You know how kids seem to grow faster when you see them only occasionally? Apparently the effect is even more pronounced when you don't actually know them and only see them via blog.

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

I have a couple of very nice framed pictures. I have a limited edition "The Dark Tower" by Whelan above my mantle and I have "Cartographer" by Donato in my hallway. Both of these prints make me smile any time I really notice them - which is a lot more than the rest of my hangings.

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

I love our "LoveSac" bean bag chair. Some day I want to have a house with an entire room furnished entirely with LoveSacs.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Did you read the Neil Gaiman journal entry where he advises people not to Google on "LoveSac"? Words to live by.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love my whole house. I am a very home-centric person. One of my favorite attributes of the house is the crazy turquoise-with-multicolored-flecks vintage linoleum in the kitchen. It's absolutely unique, and also very cheerful.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I has a yarli. No, I does...

Mmm? Oh - a yarli is a temple lion from south India. Mine is just the head, probably cut off a seventeenth-century juggernaut; he's two and a half feet high, he's lost one eye and the back of his skull and almost all his paintwork, he's so rotten he's as light as balsa and as liable to crumble under a touch, but he has iron teeth and I loves him, my precious, I does...