“Cause I’m gonna make this place your home”

I’ve taken a liking to watching The Property Brothers… so much so, that I actually dvr it now. I like that it’s about finding a home and decorating it/remodeling it to your taste. I know that fixer uppers can be A LOT of work. I also know that I have no capability of doing half the work that would be needed. Just because I’ve helped cut sheetrock and hold it in place while my dad screwed (nailed?) it in when my parent’s redid my old bedroom does not mean I qualify to do it all myself. Nor does it mean that I have the money to even consider buying a place! It does make me wonder what kind of a fixer upper I’d end up with if I had a reasonable budget to work with. I’d like to think that while it might not be my complete dream home, it’d be a place that I’d love anyways. I think I’d be able to have reasonable requests and keep the price low enough to make it work. Maybe if I start saving every single dime and stop doing everything, cancel my cable, cancel my landline, never go out, and live off of vegetables, I might be able to afford a fixer upper in about… oh, never. Lol.

Ideally I’d love a three bedroom so that I could have my master bedroom, a guest bedroom, and a craft room. I know I rarely have company these days, but I’d like to know that I’d have a place for someone to stay if they wanted to come visit. But I know I could get by with a two bedroom. I’d make it work like I make it work now. My main detail is that it would be a house, not a condo, not an apartment. I wouldn’t want to share walls with anyone else. I don’t need a huge front yard, and I don’t need a huge backyard. I wouldn’t mind at least a small space in the back where I can have two patio chairs and a small table. And I’d love to have a small patch of land where I could have my own mini vegetable garden. I think that’s pretty reasonable.

My dream kitchen would be white with splashes of yellow and teal (more yellow than teal). My dining table would have a rustic look to it and possibly mismatched chairs on one side and at the ends, and a bench seat on the other side.

In the place I’m renting there is an accent wall made of brick. I really like having that element inside. It makes it feel earthy and friendly to me. If possible, I would want an accent wall in my dream home too. It wouldn’t have to be a big wall, and I realize that it might now work in all layouts, but if it could work, a faux brick wall would be awesome!

I’m accustomed to smaller living rooms so mine wouldn’t have to be huge, but it’d be nice if it was at least the size of my current one. I would use all my current furniture because I love what I have. In fact, if you could relocate my place into a place that is a stand alone house, I’d take it. With the exception of a remodel of the bathroom and kitchen update (and floors). The size is just fine for one person. And since I don’t plan on getting remarried, I don’t need it to work for anyone but me.

Okay. Enough daydreaming. (See what that show does to me?!)