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Cabin, cottage, mansion, house
Aug. 29th, 2020 02:49 pmThis morning I wound up looking through some real estate photos taken by an acquaintance in the Midwest. This acquaintance is a fantastic photographer who is managing to make a living as a photographer in part by taking real estate photos. So occasionally they share their work on social media when they encounter particularly interesting projects.
In any case, the house in question was a mansion of some sort, and it was interesting to look through the photos because my reactions were, "Oh, those are some nice wood floors and fixtures" but also "I could never, ever, EVER imagine wanting to live in this kind of place!"
It just had too much of the classic McMansion character going on, where the space is HUGE and so it could either be filled with Stuff or it would just continue to give off an air of being HUGE. And actually, even if it was filled with Stuff I bet it would still manage to give off that HUGE air. And to no end.
That set me back to pondering what kinds of things I find attractive in a house. It's not that I want to go for "cramped," but smaller is fine, so long as it's well-portioned. I guess I have to think back to that Lincoln apartment. Somehow it was laid out so well, such that there was plenty of space in the bedrooms and living room for projects and other activities, but it never felt like either too much space or too little space. A garage certainly would have been nice.
Dogtown was cramped. Grandma House is okay but some aspects of the layout are a struggle, probably in part because the furniture we own wasn't necessarily intended for the space it's now in.
Altogether I think I would be quite content in life with something that fits the moniker "cottage."
Especially if it had a basement that didn't flood. Even the Lincoln apartment building had a basement that flooded, which was extremely unfortunate for the people who unwittingly moved into the basement apartment unit and then moved right back out again shortly thereafter.
In any case, the house in question was a mansion of some sort, and it was interesting to look through the photos because my reactions were, "Oh, those are some nice wood floors and fixtures" but also "I could never, ever, EVER imagine wanting to live in this kind of place!"
It just had too much of the classic McMansion character going on, where the space is HUGE and so it could either be filled with Stuff or it would just continue to give off an air of being HUGE. And actually, even if it was filled with Stuff I bet it would still manage to give off that HUGE air. And to no end.
That set me back to pondering what kinds of things I find attractive in a house. It's not that I want to go for "cramped," but smaller is fine, so long as it's well-portioned. I guess I have to think back to that Lincoln apartment. Somehow it was laid out so well, such that there was plenty of space in the bedrooms and living room for projects and other activities, but it never felt like either too much space or too little space. A garage certainly would have been nice.
Dogtown was cramped. Grandma House is okay but some aspects of the layout are a struggle, probably in part because the furniture we own wasn't necessarily intended for the space it's now in.
Altogether I think I would be quite content in life with something that fits the moniker "cottage."
Especially if it had a basement that didn't flood. Even the Lincoln apartment building had a basement that flooded, which was extremely unfortunate for the people who unwittingly moved into the basement apartment unit and then moved right back out again shortly thereafter.
