March 12, 2015

Little House Love

Last month we lost our minds. No, not really, we've just been knee deep in house love and negotiations. We'd been thinking about the fact that we were in year 5 in our 5-year house and contemplating something different. We just had never come to any resolution about it. But one thing is clear: we need a change. Little House on Brush Prairie has been a wonderful home for us, but a home full of hopes and dreams that haven't gone to plan as we expected when we purchased this home almost 5 years ago. Don't get me wrong, this home is lovely and beautiful and our life is good. It's just that this house represents waiting, hoping, and an in between place I am reminded of every time I pull in the driveway. We bought this house because it had the lines of a mid-century with a more modern electrical panel, a single story for little feet to take their first steps, plenty of room for guests, a canopy of the tallest cedar trees, the best schools in the county, a golf course, and a spacious backyard with plenty of room for a swing set. Except that even though I wanted and appreciated all of those things but I still dreamed of a studio apartment I could decorate with clever furnishings. JSM still imagined that mid century modern with floor to ceiling windows to bring the outside in.

We've had a fantastic five years in this house, but we are ready for something different. Something more and something less. Because we can. We are firmly and happily the two of us and we are ready for an adventure. Of course, we have our sights set on other continents someday, but for now we are looking in our own backyard. And last month we stumbled on it....deep in the woods, on the banks of the Lewis River, in between 2 of the libraries I serve, at the end of the road:


The house at the end of the road with a deck ON the river.

Those windows.....that ceiling! The river roars so loudly you can hear it in the house. 

We'll be bringing this (almost untouched!) adorable glass 2/1 dollhouse from 1956 into the 21st century.

We have big plans for this little place and can hardly wait to get started. As my mama always said, little houses grow big love. Looking forward to our life on the Lewis.....all 750 SF of it!

XOXO

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