While we haven’t seriously considered anything yet, Baby and I are looking to buy a home. Naturally there are a few requirements that must be met before we even step into a place. A minimum of 3 bedrooms (one will more than likely be used as an office), a large kitchen considering that will literally be MY room in the house, a spacious living room that we can fill with over sized comfy furniture and to keep Sean happy – a large garage with lots of storage.
Now, naturally he’d prefer a shed the size of a single-wide trailer just so he can store all of the tools that most men buy and just won’t ever use. Of course, they absolutely need to have it. (Should I note I’d like to live NO WHERE NEAR a Home Depot?). But, back to the matter at hand. I think it’s important that everyone consider utilizing their spaces properly. I hate seeing an unorganized house in complete chaos, I typically tend to clean it for them. Alicia can vouch for this one, I’ve done her dishes just because they were there. A big thing for me, however, is garage storage because you seriously can’t ever have enough of it. With all of the gardening supplies and house-hold tools that you need to keep away from ‘daily life’ it’s important to store it properly. I’d love to have a huge two-car garage but this doesn’t mean that I’d like one side of it to be overflowed with junk. I like organization, I love the look of CLEAN and nothing more. Peg boards for quick pick-up of screwdrivers, hammers and whatever else you can throw on a pegboard. Clear storage bins on an over-abundance of shelving. The idea of having ‘room to spare’ is a great thing for me.
Down here it’s hard to find this kind of space unless you build it yourself. Maybe if Sean and I get lucky and win the lotto we can purchase someone’s old farm land and turn it into the house of our dreams. I know for sure we’re going to need a big enough yard to cover Bella and whatever big dog Sean happens to bring home one night (trust me, he’ll surprise me with one!) I’ll say this much, however, there’s no way in hell we’re hiring the same landscape company that does our complex. When we say cut the grass, we don’t mean drive over it doing 40 miles an hour!
I like my rooms tidy, too, I used to be quite a chaotic person some years ago, but I stopped when I needed hours and hours to find one little thing. Eh-heh, sadly my little brother is in this stage of growing up now and makes the messes for me (luckily, he’s got his own room)
And LOL about cleaning other people’s dishes. I did that too when I stayed with a friend of mine, and she just said I was crazy. But I think it’s not really absurd to try and help when you’re staying somewhere else, or at leasr offer to do something, ’cause after all, your friends let you stay at their houses. Duh, I was brought up to do that xD, it’s weird because I know no one my age who was.