I have radically shifted from wanting to live in the creative hustle of a city like San Francisco or Brooklyn to craving a slow life set in a somewhat janky handmade house nestled in nature. So when I came across this book, Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Freindly Home Design, on the 700 shelf at the library this weekend I became completely hypnotized by the fantasy. (Which totally includes a shirtless Jeremy in bellbottoms holding a happy nekkid baby.) I don't have a library card of my own, so I had my mom check it out for me – since then I've been thumbing through the pages, overwhelmed by want.
As Jeremy and I continue to grow our lives together the fuzzy possibility of one day building our very own dream house starts to come in focus. But sometimes that dream house looks like a cobblestone hut in the Himalayas. Other times it looks like a bungalow on stilts with a view of a sunset over the ocean. And sometimes it looks like an Airstream hitched on the back of a Land Rover. But when I'm feeling especially grateful, it looks like the very place I am right now.
The dude and I are about to move into our dream house in a month. At first we were certain we wanted a small house near the shore in a densely populated area where we had easy access to EVERYTHING.
ReplyDeleteThen we sort of accidentally stumbled upon a beautiful colonial nestled in the woods in the middle of nowhere up in a town we had never considered before. It reminded us both of the houses we grew up in and it just felt right. Can't wait to start our new life together.
Congrats, Francine! That's amazing!
ReplyDeleteYou don't have a library card...! Say what?!
ReplyDeleteOh, I completely understand.. I have lived in the "south" my entire life up until two years ago when my husband and I moved to Sacramento. Right in the center of midtown. It's been such a change -- a good one! BUT -- my heart is aching for a place a lot like you described... to have a little land & build my own home on it would be fantastic. :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck to you! :D
Seems like a good time to share MY favorite house... have been drooling after it for years... Drool along, Kathleen!
ReplyDeletesustainably built beautiful hobbit house...
http://www.simondale.net/
Speakin to my soul...
ReplyDeleteWhen Fred and myself were looking for the place of our dream house, I had a very vivid moment when walking trough a land to buy. That place FELT like home. It was a very overwhelming sense of being at the right place at the right time. Sounds cosmic (I know) but it's true. The house is built now nested in the mountains north of Montreal (we were living in the heart of Montreal before that, in a tiny appartment), we have space to evolve and breathe. I will never regret our choice :)
ReplyDeleteThat last sentence... so very true :) happy grateful Friday!
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