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Hello!
Ok I have a confession to make. I want to buy a house. I know I know. I'm too young, I'm not in a good place to buy a house and all it comes with, I don't have the money and the housing market is shit. With all that i know I'm not going to be buying a house I just want to. And I blame my mother. It's not even that I want a put together house. I want a fixer upper. I need a fixer upper. And my mother is completely to blame for this desire. Most children didn't think of the weekends as those days you painted your room and rearranged the furniture. That's what weekends were for in my house. Home improvement and do it yourself was the name of the game, and we played every weekend. And I want to do that to my own place. I have so many ideas that I can't wait to try but I can't. Many would mean that I was fixing up a place I'm leaving in a few months and others would mean the loss of our security deposit. Neither of which are good outcomes. So until I can have my own place I can dream. Here it is.

I want a 2 bed room one bath (2 bath maybe. I remember those days in the old Amherst house with only one.) in a nice part of west LA or Culver City, Palms would be ok too. I want it to be liveable but need work. As long as the plumping and electrical are good everything else I  can figure out and do. I want a little front porch and a nice sized back yard. I want a neighborhood that I can walk around in at night and know the neighbors. I want to paint it all myself (with jono's help and input of course) and maybe put in hardwood floors if it doesn't have them. I want to put pictures on the walls and be able to move the furniture whenever I want. I want a nice sized kitchen ( at least a 2 butt one) and an open floor plan (though I'm sure I could figure out how to knock out a wall if I needed to). I want to have a little garden in the back yard with vegetables and flowers. And not kill them. I want to be able to sit outside and watch the sun go down and sip a glass of wine and know that I am in the house that I helped make my home.

Yes I know it's a lot of work. But I like that kind of thing. And I want a place that is truly my home. Not just a place we live in for now, till we can move. I don't want to move. I want to be in one place long enough that I change the paint in a room a few times. I don't want to have to think about moving just about changing the place we are in. I know it's a far away dream right now but I am going to keep dreaming. ( and saving a ton of pictures as inspiration, like I need more. )

hugs+kisses
mce