Comments on Julie Pippert: Using My Words: Acceptance...sort of

This is just the type of conversation I've been ha...

2009-09-06T07:10:52.668-05:00

This is just the type of conversation I've been having with myself recently - not specifically about a house - but about dreams, ideas and the future. I turn 35 this year, so I guess the timing is right on the money, huh?

I love my house. I don't love my living room furni...

2009-08-11T12:02:20.051-05:00

I love my house. I don't love my living room furniture, but it was free, and it's growing on me, the Palm Beach chintz sofa and the leopard print velveteen chair. Growing on me = Acceptance.

We have a timeshare every other year in Fairmont H...

2009-08-11T08:22:47.538-05:00

We have a timeshare every other year in Fairmont Hot Springs in B.C. Same kind of layout you described except it has two bathrooms. I am too spoiled to downgrade to just one. I remarked that I could see us living in a small home like that minus the golf course which made walking a bit tricky.

When I was young though I dreamed of owning one of the grand old homes on the bluffs in my hometown. Fixing it up and everything. But I have no instinct for that kind of nesting or feathering. And it's okay.

my family had five people in a 900 sq ft house. It...

2009-08-11T00:15:51.485-05:00

my family had five people in a 900 sq ft house. It was tiny...and I miss it.

I'll just say, "Me, too!" and leave it at that. I...

2009-08-11T00:06:59.823-05:00

I'll just say, "Me, too!" and leave it at that. I have half-hearted decor attempts all over the house.

This was really wonderful. I love that you have le...

2009-08-10T23:16:18.781-05:00

This was really wonderful. I love that you have learned and accepted these things about yourself.

I'm also in your camp about Home Decor. I can't be bothered, and would rather spend my time doing other things. I had a brief spurt of activity and interest when we bough the house (10 years ago!), but since then, we only tend to deal with things when they reach a crisis level and must be fixed.

Our living room has nothing but a piano in it (wel...

2009-08-10T23:06:24.515-05:00

Our living room has nothing but a piano in it (well, and about a hundred toys scattered on the floor). We've been here for a year and a half, and I just can't get motivated to decorate, or even buy furniture. I tell myself that the kids have so much fun in the room as a gymnasium . . . but really, I am lacking the decorator gene.

I recognize so many of the thoughts that you wrote.

then you'd love my house, where we cram five peopl...

2009-08-10T22:47:41.490-05:00

then you'd love my house, where we cram five people into 1700 square feet.

but, this is not a post about houses, really. it is about coming to terms with who we are. the endless possibility that seemed to be there half a decade ago has somehow evaporated. And most days, we're all OK with that -- happy with the trade off. But, every now and then, we get wistful for those heady days of potential.

I heart my house. It's my ginormous living room I ...

2009-08-10T21:52:28.407-05:00

I heart my house. It's my ginormous living room I truly love. the rest is normal sized. It's not the neighborhood where the Joneses live. So there's no pressure to live up to anyone.

Except of course my mother's voice in my head. She's a perfectionist task master.

So some day I won't mind my house? I so don't hav...

2009-08-10T21:40:24.507-05:00

So some day I won't mind my house? I so don't have the gene to be able to make it homey. I wish I did, but I don't know if I'm ready to give up that dream.

I think if I got rid of a lot of extraneous stuff it would feel better.