Your dream home

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one of those tall, thin, grey brick Georgian town houses.

with steps going up to the front door.

 

[kalidarkone]

I spend an inordinate amount of time fantasising about my perfect dream home and have done since I was about ten. I think it started partly because at the time me and my family were living in very cramped and unsuitable accomodation and I didn't have my own room (me and my brother shared a cupboard to sleep in - seriously!) and partly because Ikea had just opened (or I'd just become aware of it) and I excitedly saved up my pocket money to buy a squiggly orange mirror and a lime green clothes organiser
I do in fact have two dream homes - a kind of realistic one (I say kind of as the chances of me ever being able to afford £2000 rugs are extremely slim) as a permanent council flat should be coming my way at some point in the future (possibly the reason my innocent day dreams have turned into a full time obsession), and a big over the top multi-million pound lottery win dream home.
Here's how I'd have the more realistic one.

Hopefully I'll have a bedroom AND a living room, although it's not guaranteed. My bedroom will be painted dark grey and have very little in it. I've been promised a French wooden bedframe which I have to restore and get a matress made for, but I think that's possible. I'll upholster it in pink silk and I've already bought a matching duvet cover. I've got an armoire (hark at me) which I'll paint a sort of greyish off-white and I'll get some mirror cut to fit the doors. I saw a Tom Dixon lampshade in Heals which is like a copper globe which I'd get as long as it didn't clash with the pink bedding! I'd also have a big pair of antlers on the wall.

I've got my eye on some laminate flooring which looks like proper, real old wood which I'd have everywhere.

The front room would be light grey and also have very little in it (in my fantasy I've got plenty of cupboards in the hall okay). I'd buy a pair of matching carved wood Louis XVI sofas and reupholster them in black velvet, and between them would be this Vivienne Westwood rug which is like a faded chintzy union jack. It sounds a bit dodgy but it's beautiful. I'd get built in shelves on one wall where I'd have all my books and my CD player. I'd have white blackout blinds on my windows (which by the way would be HUGE) and this lightshade I saw in Habitat which is like a clear glass ball. On the walls I'd have these three pictures by Raymond Pettibon (he's the brother of someone in Black Flag and did a lot of their artwork) that I saw at the Wellcome Trust a while ago. They're all stabby and disturbing and involve hearts, I love them. This is sort of moving into the realms of unatttainable fantasty now, but I do have some really nice art to put on the walls - a few of my more talented friends have painted me amazing skull themed pictures and I've got some really cool 1960s pop art prints of tanks and guns made from letraset too.

I don't know what my kitchen would be like, other than white and glossy. I'd like it to look like an old operating theatre with loads of antique medical paraphernalia, but it will probably be too full of herbs and tins for that.

My bathroom would also be white and glossy, but with loads of catholic shite in there. I've got a large and growing collection of Virgin Marys and Immaculate Hearts and what I'd really like is a bath with a large surround so I can put a big Mary at one end and protect it from my bath water with a glass screen. I'd also like a chandelier but low council ceilings and the danger of getting electrocuted make that unlikely too.

If I won the lottery it would be pretty much the same, only in a massively huge and ostentatious house backing onto either the Thames or a nice stretch of the canal, with a studio and guest rooms.

Now it's your turn!

My house but really clean and really tidy with some more shelves and furniture and the kitchen finished