Saturday, March 12, 2011

Dream House

When I was a kid, I wanted to live in Ayala Alabang. I have two favorite houses there and both of them a big and white. One is with a blue roof and accents. For some reason, it had horses like from a carousel posted in the vast land beside it. According to my grandfather, an ambassador lives there. The other one is like the White House or the house from Sweet Home Alabama. It had two to four Greek columns in front. I also enjoyed scanning through the coffee table book “Tropical Living”. The houses there are all suprisingly from the Philippines. There were tropical houses that looks even better than a resort. A variety of Asian, Hispanic, Latin and Mediterranean inspired abodes. Also a few minimalist homes. Most of the furnitures featured in the book were handicrafts made of abaca, bamboo and others. I could say these were my dream houses.

For this activity, I didn't know if I should go overboard and be very creative. Or should I be true to myself and go for something what I really want as of now. I decided to go for the more practical one but if ever I become filthy rich, I can always go back to “Tropical Living” or a different coffee table book for extravagant reference. A few years back, I wanted my house to be like this model house in between Greenbelt 1 and 2. Today, that's the yogurt place named Qoola. It's small probably 60 to 100 square meters only. It's rectangular and the style is very modern and sleek. The whole front is made of glass so you could really see what's inside. The living room was near the stairs on the left while the dining and kitchen together at the right. When you go upstairs I believe it's already the bedroom and probably bath. I love the idea of having a balcony inside the house and you could look down and see what is happening down stairs. If I were to grow up alone or with a husband yet childless, I'd be happy to settle in that small place. However, I don't really want that. I want to get married and have at most three kids. But I prefer two, one girl and one boy.

My dream house would be a modern rectangular house facing the road horizontally. Painted in white with mahogany panels as accent. This would be in a village so that it will be peaceful. There's a two to three meters front yard with healthy green grass and various flowers. At the left most of the house is a small porch with a wrought-iron park bench. Enter the house via the 7 feet tall locally made Acacia dark Acacia double-door. Inside a simple,Victorian mirror will greet you. On the right is the L-shaped floating staircase. The first floor is divided into two by a massive wall-mounted bookshelves. In the front half is the office/den (with a powder room) where I keep my sewing and art materials There's also the sunny yellow kitchen with white cabinets and a breakfast table. While the back half is shared by the living room and dining room that has a fusion theme of sleek modern Victorian. The outside can be seen through the four tall French windows and a French double-door. Outside, is the rectangular pool in the middle. At the left is the lanai, maid's quarter and laundry area. Then at the right is small garden with bamboo trees and money plants. Upstairs is the master's bedroom with a master's bathroom and walk-in-closet. There's also four other rooms and two bathrooms to be shared. These are for my kids then the spare can be a study, family room or guestroom for my and husband's parents. Our garage houses three cars. A Montesport for the whole family, a Volvo for my husband and a Mazda 3 for me (sample only). I guess I have a dream house after all.

posted by: mars @ 7:10 PM

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