Home Sweet Home

A HOME I HAVE IN MIND

            Once you have your husband and your children, you should really think of moving into your new house. As for me, it is best to live separately from your parents or your husband’s parents when you decide to finally get married. You are a new family now so you should live independently from then on. If I were to choose from an apartment, a hotel room or a brand new house, I would prefer living in a brand new house. It would be nice to be contributing for the house’s design. I want that while constructing the house, I know the plans and designs of the house. I would be very pleased and happy to be a helping hand in choosing the furniture, the theme colors of every room and everything else. How exciting can it be! It would be like shopping for someone else. The difference is that this is my very own house together with my husband where we can finally start our own family.

            My ideal house would look like a grand hotel or a resort. I want the place to be really big and wide. I want the landscape from outside to be amazing and overwhelming through the very nice view. There is a very nice garden where we can find beautiful ornamental plants and flowers. There will also be a mini-fish pond filled with little and colorful fishes of course. Beside it is a striking cascade or waterfall with a lighted grotto. In that grotto is a statue of Mama Mary. On the other hand, I want two very wide pools. One is for adult swimmers and the other for children. There are slides and diving boards. It would be awesome if we also live by the beach. We don’t only have swimming pools but also a nearby beach. There should also be a park for different purposes. We can have it as a venue for birthday parties, picnics and other occasions. It’ll also serve as a playground for my children where we can find slides, swings, see-saws, sand boxes and many others. I wish to construct a mini-gymnasium too where we can play different kinds of sports under the covered court. I believe it can be a place where my family and I can bond and work out for the duration of weekends. During occasions, we will definitely expect a lot of guests so we should really have a spacious parking lot. In front of the actual building of the house, I imagine a huge fountain wherein cars can move around it. Most of all, I want everything in the exterior of our house to be attention-grabbing and pleasurable.

            For the interior, I am demanding for a lot of things. I don’t really like so many floors because it’ll just be so exhausting and annoying going up and down the house unless we have our very own elevator or escalator. I’d like to have a basement too and in that basement, you can find an indoor swimming pool. Beside it is the game room where you can play billiards, bowling, foosball and other indoor games. In the ground floor, we can find an enormous living room with an eye-catching chandelier. The pieces of furniture are both traditional and modern. The sofas should be comfortable and clean. There should also be a big carpet under. Although it’s not actually snowing here in the Philippines, we still need a fireplace for rainy and cold seasons. To avoid smoke and fire, I’d prefer an electric fireplace. On the other hand, there is a big cabinet wherein the appliances are hidden and are only going to be seen if they are used. Our kitchen should be really divided from the dining room. The designs of the dining table and dining chairs must blend together. The table must be rectangular-shaped instead of round and square. I prefer cushioned chairs so that it will be comfortable for the people to eat. The plates and utensils should be properly arranged on the table together with the placemats and table napkins. As usual, the pieces of furniture are both traditional and modern. Next is the kitchen. I’d like white to be the dominant color seen in my kitchen. It just looks so clean so in case of stains while cooking, you will directly notice it. The groceries, food and spices should be properly organized in the cabinets and the refrigerator. I want all the appliances and cooking tools to be modern, neat and effortless when used. The maids’ room should be found in the ground floor too so that it’ll be easier for us to call them when needed. Beside their room, we can find the laundry room where we can basically find our newly-washed and soiled clothes. I’d add another room called the Prayer room where we can find peace and unity with God. I’d like to pray the rosary in this room every night with my family valuing our faith and relationship with Him.

      

Let us move on with the second floor. Now, this is my favorite floor. First is because it is where we can find our bedrooms. The masters’ bedroom should be the biggest bedroom in the house for my husband and I. I’m not yet sure how many rooms there will be since I don’t know how many kids we will have. However, I will reserve two bedrooms since I’m thinking of just having two children. Then there’ll be three guest rooms with complete facilities. I want my guests to feel very comfortable staying in our home. The theater room and the library will also be found in the second floor. I want the theater room to be high technology. The screen should be very wide and large. The seats should be comfortable. The amenities and appliances should also be satisfying and enjoyable. I believe this can be our recreation room when my family and I need to bond and have fun. Of course, if I want my kids to do well with their studies, we should have our very own library. It’s more like our study room or office room. Another computer will be provided for this room aside from the computers in each of our bedrooms. When we need to do some research or just bond together through reading then this is the best place to do such. Lastly, the most refreshing part of the house is our balcony. Why refreshing? Refreshing because it is where you can entirely see the very nice view of the beach, the garden and everything else. It is the best place to relax as the sunset meets the horizon.

I believe I haven’t mentioned all the things I can describe about my ideal house because there are just a lot that I can say. I really want a big house with awesome facilities, furniture, appliances and landscapes. How I wish it’ll all come true! However, there is one thing that matters more before I achieve my goal of having a house like I imagine. I hope that by having this house, my relationship with my husband will be stronger since I am pretty sure that we will be very much besieged with how far we have reached. As for my children, I hope they can be proud of our very own home. Then as we grow old, my children will be starting their own family and move to their very own homes too like what my husband and I did. When we leave this world, we have actually left something here that can be reminded of us--- our home.