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Tell me all about it, dear...
dichroic - 2005-05-13 12:29:55
Me, I'm with the Levittown kids - except we didn't even have four outside walls. I grew up in a red brick Philadelphia rowhouse: 3 small bedrooms (the smallest is about 7x9 - and some people on the block had 5 kids!), LR, DR, kitchen. It did have a basement, unfinished. One bathroom (big problem, with a mother with colitis) unless you count the unfinished half-bath in the basement, which we mostly did only for emergencies. Small patio and lawn in front, paved driveway in back. About 80 degrees of sky viewable from the middle of the street. I shouldn't be using the past tense, since Mom and Dad still live there. This is why I now live in a large and underfurnished house and have recurring dreams in whic I'm back in that house, go through a trapdoor and find hidden but large and airy rooms and decks in the attic. (In actuality, there is no accessible attic.)
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Pandi - 2005-05-13 14:28:09
A very birdy yard? Awwwwww! I hope this flare passes quickly, hon.
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Amy - 2005-05-13 15:24:36
Are you trying to torture me, woman, with your cavalier attitude towards all that glorious SPACE? A sob catches in my throat at the thought of a two-acre house. (And an even bigger sob at the thought of the heating bill, but still...)
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alex - 2005-05-13 15:26:54
We have a development near my house that's supposed to be New Urbanist. It's a sweet little place, with its own grocery store and village green, even if it does feel a little like a just-built movie set of a town. But some of those houses - oy! Their little yards are supposed to be 'good land use', but I don't see how acre-wide houses could ever be efficient. I've babysat in those houses, you can _lose a toddler_ in the vastness of the foyer.
(in fairness to my town planning committee, the other side of the neighborhood is lovely small houses and tasteful apartment buildings. So far the proximity of the peasants to the new-money technorattzi hasn't degenerated into warfare).
I do have a fondness for turn-of-the-century townhouses of about the same size. I agree there's just something different about a house that was built in 1905 to house a staff of twelve and a house that was built in 2005 to house designer furniture.
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Summer Gale - 2005-05-13 16:11:31
I'm sorry about the balance thing. I hope it clears out quickly. being in a chair all day is only kewl when you CHOOSE to do it. (((hugs)))
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Denver doug - 2005-05-13 20:38:04
A little brick house on the alley, two rooms, a commode, a galvanized tub for bathing (kept outside upside down most of the time), but there were good times there for the three of us.
Guess this temperature thing hits us senilors harder. I find that chilling easy and then sweltering come closer together on the thermometer.
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