Showroom vs. Sanctuary: Rebecca Solnit on What Our Dream Homes Reveal about Our Inner Lives | Brain Pickings

Showroom vs. Sanctuary: Rebecca Solnit on What Our Dream Homes Reveal about Our Inner Lives | Brain Pickings



i've just finished reading this and... it made me think of some stuff. particularly my dream home.



i've always wanted a rather "vacant" house... it will only ever have furniture pieces that i really, really love. i'm not particularly sentimental, except for things that i really love, and those can be counted within my digits. i want a house that's... gray-white, i don't want it too bright or too drab. and it would not be the home of a collector. it would be spacious and clean. i might change the furniture arrangements more often than is normal. and i want a bathroom of this motif, but a luxurious one. again, not a crowded bathroom - i want it spacious and comfy, but not alienating. i want a house that is generally quiet, but i can change its mood with music, maybe.



so... this article makes me think about what it is that i really want, because the article states that our dream homes and its interiors signify the umm... ideal life that we dream of, and we may achieve it in the form and formation of our homes, but that this ideal form and formation is only kept for a limited time, because, you know, life changes, things change, additions and subtractions, etc etc.



but that's the problem. i want a pretty empty house.



and then there's the idea of a concept standing right beside its very opposite.



so maybe the worst house i can ever have is a cluttered house?



i can quite imagine how bad it will be. and yes, i think that's exactly what i don't want.



but, again... there's also this other idea in my head that maybe i want a blank canvas because i'm too afraid to commit myself to anything. i mean, it does resound pretty well with my ideal house. it is clean, i can change it anytime i want to. rather fitting, really.



i cannot imagine myself sticking to a cluttered house. or, i might, but i'll throw out some of its contents and rearrange it altogether.



ah. the consistencies and inconsistencies in me.