Sunday 17 February 2013

Epiphany

I love Grand Designs
Absolutely love Kevin McCloud.

I have been watching him for years.
And especially love those episodes about people building interestingly.
There are some that have piles of money and build expensively and there are those that build differently.
With unique materials and ridiculously unique ideals.
And I watch and drool over them
But when I think about my own house I find it difficult to truly imagine.

But I have had an epiphany.
I know why I have had so much trouble visualising a house for myself.
It's because I have been asking myself what should my kitchen, bathroom, bedroom etc. look like.
I changed the question.
I now ask.

What do I want to do in my house? How do i want to live and interact with it?
And that changed everything.
Watch this space in about ten years I will tell you about my unique but not ridiculously expensive house that allows me to just be me.
I mostly kept thinking about outside time.
When I visit my grandmother in the village, we eat outside, we hang out outside, and so my home/house will be built to maximise this outside time.
I am excited, and really feel liberated to begin to see glimpses of what my house will be.