I live in one of those neighbourhoods where the houses are too big for the sections. The houses are free-standing but they are close together; mostly they just have a metre or two of outdoor space around the house and maybe a few square metres in the front yard, and half of it is concreted, and I was hanging my sheets out on the line last weekend and I could see right into the neighbour’s concreted backyard where he was pottering around doing something I pretended not to notice and have since forgotten. The houses seem oversized because there’s hardly any space between them, and when I say oversized, I mean, these places are huge. We live in a 5 bed 2.5 bath and it’s smaller than many others in the surrounding streets. I can’t quite comprehend what people do with the larger houses, because it’s probably not that they have heaps of children. Does each member of the household get their own bathroom and their own hobby room as well as their own bedroom? Our garage is bigger than our outdoor area and the internal stairs and landings feel unnecessarily wide considering their only purpose is to take us from one level to another. There are three levels in this house, by the way, with a lot of foyer and landing and hallway, and we have a room in between the dining room and the living room which is half filled with bookshelves and half empty because there’s just that much space. It’s the biggest house I’ve ever lived in, and the second nicest (some may disagree if they don’t like old houses but the nicest house I ever lived in was a renovated villa).
The many (probably spare) rooms in the oversized houses remind me of how Candy Spelling (mother of Tori Spelling) apparently has her own 'gift wrap room' in her Hollywood mansion, with racks and racks of fancy paper and ribbons, and a table in the middle - expressly for the purpose of wrapping up gifts!
Great column, and I love the denim blue wall!
The many (probably spare) rooms in the oversized houses remind me of how Candy Spelling (mother of Tori Spelling) apparently has her own 'gift wrap room' in her Hollywood mansion, with racks and racks of fancy paper and ribbons, and a table in the middle - expressly for the purpose of wrapping up gifts!