I'm well known for my inability to settle in one place. True, I lived in my amazing flat in St Kilda Road for four years straight, but I gave up it all up to run off to Scotland. I've now lived in 9 houses/flats/hovels since I first moved out of home at the age of 21, and we're about to move again.
The weird thing is that the number of addresses doesn't change. We're all moving back to a house I first rented in 2000, and it's available again, so I jumped straight in and grovelled until the real estate agent gave up and laughed. The house tour was great: "Oh the lounge is still blue! The kitchen's mint green! The bedroom is still purple!" "Oh, were they like that when you last lived here?" "Um... I painted them that way...".
Now the reason I'm blathering on about this on my blog rather than Facebook or general email is a simple one: to cause complete jealousy. You see, my new/old house has a two room bungalow in the back yard. It's pretty big. It's almost the size of the hobbit hole we're renting now. It has a kitchenette, bookcases and a LOT of room. It's all mine. Felix likes the idea of never having to move another knitting project off the couch, so the bungalow is all mine.
The front room (where the stove is) will be the knitting room, complete with cushy armchair and boxes of yarn (plus the bookcase full of patterns). The back room will be set up for my sewing machines, cutting table and knitting machine table. I'll be buying an overlocker once the tax money comes in. As soon as it's all set up I'll be posting many many pictures.
So...anyone jealous yet?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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7 comments:
Completely and utterly! sounds wonderful!
Completely and utterly! sounds wonderful!
Hope it's in Richmond!!! Fingers crossed :)
Bwahahahaaaa! I wish! Can you imagine such a place for $195 per week in Richmond?!? No, it's still in Ferntree Gully :)
Jealous!!! Sounds brilliant. And I had a purple bedroom growing up!
Now I'm jealous! My bedroom was cream and brown and very unfeminine. I painted this bedroom pale purple with a dark purple ceiling, which (thankfully) the landlord has painted over!
That's hilarious that you are returning to an old rental. There's only one out of the long list that I've spent time in that I'd return to, but since we now have three boys and they wouldn't fit,it won't ever happen!
Congrats on the find and the survival of the colours.....what colours will you paint the other rooms???
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