castles in the air

[tsubame]

Things I want for my house:

- a fireplacce
- a library with wooden shelves
- a room where the harp can live
- climbing roses
- Chinese-style furniture in the living room
- a soft carpet, one inch deep
- a window seat
- moss
- under-floor heating
- a tatami area
- white stone counter tops
- a Japanese-style bath
- a weeping cherry tree
- an oak tree
- a bed of lily of the valley
- some ivy
- a stone path, a wooden gate
- a futon with a beanbag pillow
- a kotatsu
- gas burners
- a koi pond
- momiji
- a hammock
- door guardians (Fu-dogs)
- you

Comments

[greensilkchai.livejournal.com]

this is the loveliest thing i've read in quite some time.

[grey-damaskena.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of new things the house needs.

- a Tiffany lamp with a jewel-toned shade
- a Ganesha in an alcove in the entranceway
- a wooden spice rack
- copper pots
- guest slippers
- floor pillows
- a barometer
- a wing chair
- a room with a ceiling painted to look like the sky
- wooden floors
- a clock that chimes the hours

[greensilkchai.livejournal.com]

- a room devoted to books, and other rooms that have deep seated, long abiding crushes on books
- gargoyles
- visiting cats
- a dumbwaiter
- heated towel racks
- a rubber duck in every bath
- theme rooms
- a breeze in the gardens
- a pole, a lyra, and aerial silks