This is my first ever ‘meme‘. Thanks Ellen at ‘To The Max’ for introducing me to the concept.
The topic is ‘your favourite room in your house’. So here is mine.
But now, I have a confession to make. This is NOT my house.
And a further confession: I can’t post a pic of a fave room in my house because honestly, I don’t have one.
As a follow up to my post earlier in the week about working, the fact that I haven’t worked since BC was born (and my husband is still not fully qualified for his job) means that we don’t have much money. As a result, we don’t own our own home. We rent. And we rent a very ordinary 2 bedroom unit that has threadbare carpets, a broken griller, a shower door that doesn’t close properly and a living area that is an oven in summer and a refrigerator in winter.
It’s not all that bad. It’s clean and it’s very well located and it’s a very good price for the area we live in. But it’s absolutely not where I would choose to live if I had a choice. The house in the pic above, is.
I’d love an open plan house and my ideal room would look like this photo: a sunlit living area where I can relax and read books. I’d love it to have French doors that open out onto a patio and into a decent sized back garden where the kids can play. I’d like the kitchen to be within sight of the back doors so I could watch the kids while I cooked. The lack of doorways and steps would suit a little boy in a walker and a mum who likes to know where her kids are and what they are doing at all times.
This year, we really really hope that we might finally be able to afford to buy our own home. It’s not likely that I’ll get the perfect room like the one in this picture – given that the house this photo was taken from IS for sale but is more than 3 times more expensive than the budget we will have – but it doesn’t hurt to dream a little. Thanks Ellen 
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