Tuesday 4: Home is where the 💛 is

 

Good morning,

We've another doctor's appointment later this morning to see if Tom's a candidate for hip replacement  ... 
but their offices aren't far, and the Tuesday 4's calling me to come play.

Let's do this!

Toni asks --

What do you think of this picture ... the staircase.  Do you like how it looks?  Does it say "home" to you?  Would you like something that looks like this?

I'm not especially fond of the floral wallpaper or runner ..... but strangely it works!

I want to grab ahold of that rich wood railing and learn what's waiting up above.  Perhaps a pair of low-ceiling bedrooms like those at my grandparent's farm house -- one with a metal grid concealed beneath a throw rug which, once uncovered, allowed a curious girl to kneel and eavesdrop on the adults' conversations below.

In contrast, this is the staircase in my childhood home.  (I lifted this image from an old real estate listing.) 

Just on the other side of those paper-thin walls, the little boys I used to babysit would ride up and down those steps on their backside shrieking happily -- and loudly.  (But I digress ....)

I love multi-story residences, but given the condition of our hips and knees, that's not so practical anymore.

Did you love growing up in your family home?  Could you live in a house like that today?

I don't remember ever loving it -- or not.  Not until my mid-teens when a "real homes" community began development off the "Hill."

With my little Pepper dog in front of our Unit B

Government housing was the norm.  Today I smile at the song lyric, "... and they're all made out of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same."

Blame it all on my roots ...
I love the idea of living in another tiny (1,034 sq. ft) residence -- less to clean or pay to heat and cool!

What did you bedroom look like when you were a teen? 

More 'steals' lifted from Realtor.com.

This is my 9' x 7' bedroom, once with pale yellow walls and crisp white cafe curtains that my mother sewed.

Because mother disliked overhead lighting, I'd a little table lamp on the dresser.  Probably a horse statuette or two.

 

More than 50 years later, the view's still the same.

I'd a dresser under that window that looked like this

One could switch the colored panels to suit one's own taste

 ..... and there in the corner stood one of these

What kind of vibes or atmosphere do you like to foster in your home today?  Sophisticated? Homey?

We're all about 'homey'  -- comfortable, with a touch of rustic ..... peppered not with objects d'art but those things with stories to tell. 

Not sure what this says about me, but having watched endless episodes of HGTV (House Hunters, etc.), I'm decidedly on Team "Before."

How about you?

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Thanks to Annie and friends for allowing me a brief sentimental journey.
You, too, can play along (click here).

We've come a long way, baby!

Hugs, Myra