your fantasy house
Loki
One day, it occurred to sio...@interlog.com (Siobhan NiLoughlin) to
ask:
> So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
Well, there are the obvious things. Arch doorways everywhere. As much
black marble as possible. Stained glass windows.
Let's see... Hanging oil lamps from the ceilings, maybe. Definitely
build candle-holders (preferably brass) into the walls. Get a decent
wine cellar (room for 20-30 bottles would probably be enough). One
windowless room, preferably with all-black paint on the walls, to be
used as a TV/stereo room.
If hardwood floors are possible, use them. (The only thing I like
better than hardwood floors are stone floors, and you're probably not
that lucky.) Cover the boards with cool rugs (I tend to prefer
Egyptian over Persian, but either will do.)
Wall-mounted bookshelves. (They're worth it. And you can paint them
whatever colour you like. Of course, this is advice from a man who's
probably nearing 1000 books on his shelves...)
If you have a decent sized front yard, a series of archways leading up
to your front door would be very cool.
That's all I can think of right now, anyway... there's probably more
but it hasn't occurred to me yet.
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Siobhan NiLoughlin
OK, so this is the deal.
My partners and I are buying a house. It's a little old, in
reasonably good shape, but it's going to need a lot of work. We are
going to be remodeling, rennovating, and yes, redecorating.
So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
Go nuts, this is your fantasy house. Pick a favorite room or describe
the whole damn thing.
Once we get the thing fixed up, I'll invite you all to the
house-warming.
Siobhan
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slchen
I always liked the idea of having a secret room hidden
behind a bookcase.
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Norman Padilla
In <5anevv$2...@news.interlog.com> sio...@interlog.com (Siobhan
NiLoughlin) writes:
>
>
> So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
>Go nuts, this is your fantasy house. Pick a favorite room or describe
>the whole damn thing.
I'd make one room purely for sleeping, with futons wall to wall,
with curtains hanging from the ceiling so that when you opened the
windows during the summer time they would wisp about. Nothing else
would be on the walls. yummy
That's pretty much all I would do differently, any of my other
rooms would prolly be crowded with junk and various pictures of mayhem
like my room now . . .
Ethereal
who's always wanted a sleeping room
luke' mime
you have to have one room deep in the darkest corner of the basement
that is someone's bedroom (mine he he he) and apint it all black, then
hang the walls with stolen chainlink fence and lace some black roses
through them. (I go with fake roses..lower maintenance) Then of course
you have to have the weied geiger art posters. I could go into greater
detail..but I'm not that bored.
catlady
> I'd make one room purely for sleeping, with futons wall to wall,
>with curtains hanging from the ceiling so that when you opened the
>windows during the summer time they would wisp about. Nothing else
>would be on the walls. yummy
> That's pretty much all I would do differently, any of my other
>rooms would prolly be crowded with junk and various pictures of mayhem
>like my room now . . .
my sweetie HAS this room, with the exception of floor-to-ceiling,
wall-to-wall bookcases. it is my second most favorite place in the world.
don't forget the down comforters :)
cat
Twilight
oh God. you don't know what you started with me, Siobhan. I *love*
decorating, and I'm *good* at it, probably because my father is a painter
contractor, and I grew up helping remodel my house, etc.
anyway, my family's moving soon, and I get to help, so....
I'll just do my room and bathroom, otherwise, this post would be so damn
long
my room:
two walls painted a very pretty maroonish-reddish colour, other two white
or off white.
alternating borders running on the top. white trim on the maroon walls,
with about a foot of white space above, opposite on the other walls
big loose white curtains, that will billow when the windows open
black metal bed, with canopy. black net/lace hanging from on top the
canopy.
maroon sheets, black comforter.
any kind of cool furniture. little tables, big huge dresser with mirror,
lots of space to stick all my junk :) all done in black or metal.
bathroom:
done in a lighter shade, maybe a reddish mauve, with silver. claw footed
bathtub, old antique mirror, vanity, and *carpet* by the vanity area
ok, I'll shut up now :)
good luck with the house!!!!
Whips and Kisses---
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Kenaz
I'm gonna talk about the oft-neglected bathroom. My friend just got a
new apt. which is really cool, but her bathroom was an absolut pit. It
was tiny, had no door, was right off the kitchen and was really old and
grungy.
First, she bought new black and white linoleum tiles (the cheap kind w/
the sticky backing) and covered up the gross old ones. Took a couple of
hours. Then she bought silver auto paint (lasts longer than spray paint)
and painted the tub and the pressed-tin cieling. She covered the
entryway with a huge bolt of thick brocade fabric (she says this was the
most expensive part of the whole bathroom) and got really cool
silver-colored tiebacks and royal blue cording so the "curtain" can be
drawn to the sides of the doorway. The walls are painted this intense
royal blue, with a matching blue showerliner to go behind her super-cool
clear shower curtain with black engraving-type prints of rubinesque naked
ladies (found either at Urban Outfitters or Bed Bath &
Beyond for about $20).
It has gone from the ugliest room in the apartmenmt to a veritable
showplace.
Kit's moral: DON'T NEGLECT THE BATHROOM!!!!!!!!!
--Happy decorating! I'm oh-so-jealous!!!!
--Kit, the girl with the ultra-anal-retentive landlord and an ugly brown
tiled bathroom.
Wayvon Christina Diane
On 5 Jan 1997, Norman Padilla wrote:
> Date: 5 JAN 1997 22:57:26 GMT
> From: Norman Padilla <norm...@ix.netcom.com>
> Newgroups: alt.gothic.fashion
> Subject: Re: your fantasy house
>
> In <5anevv$2...@news.interlog.com> sio...@interlog.com (Siobhan
> NiLoughlin) writes:
> >
> >
> > So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
> >Go nuts, this is your fantasy house. Pick a favorite room or describe
> >the whole damn thing.
> OOO! Fun fun!
> I'd make one room purely for sleeping, with futons wall to wall,
> with curtains hanging from the ceiling so that when you opened the
> windows during the summer time they would wisp about. Nothing else
> would be on the walls. yummy
> That's pretty much all I would do differently, any of my other
> rooms would prolly be crowded with junk and various pictures of mayhem
> like my room now . . .
>
>
> Ethereal
> who's always wanted a sleeping room
>
>
I want Jack Skellington's house, the details are beyond beautiful, but I
guess it's not on the market huh?
Okay then...I saw my dream house in Michigan (can't remember the name of
the place-sleep deprivation can be damaging) and it was HUGE stone house
with a stone patio in the back with a stone pool and a black ornate cast
iron fence around it. There were lots of trees, willows that have
probably been there since the beginning of time...Unfortunately I didn't
get to see the inside but if it was up to me it'd be done Baroque with
classical music P.A.-ed throughout...Hmmm....*sigh*...
Maybe when I'm done my stupid ten year stretch of
pre-med/med/school/internship/residence I'll be able to have a stone
mimi-castle too (in the name of Louis XIV, I could call it Versailles II).
Simply Mental,
Jadis
"Hell is other people"
~J.P. Sartre
Chiriga
<<<my sweetie HAS this room, with the exception of floor-to-ceiling,
wall-to-wall bookcases. it is my second most favorite place in the world.
don't forget the down comforters :)>>>
Argggh....<drooling over the thought of that much SHELVING SPACE> <sigh>
My fiancee just moved into my childhood home with me...we have two
bedrooms for ALL our stuff...and we're both reasonably clutter-prone
people...and we both have LOTS and LOTS of books...and not enough
bookshelves...<droop>
Oh. Um...I guess I'm delurking. (after four posts already) Hi?
...Chiri Baby...
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Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the soul can sting no more?
No, stand to your glasses, steady!
The world is a world of lies;
A cup to the dead already--
And hurrah for the next that dies!"
---Bartholomew Dowling---
Zoe O'Reilly
Ohhh, my favorite room would have to be the Labyrinth room. No, not an
actual labyrinth (although now that you bring it up...) I WILL have a
room like at the end of the movie with all the upside down stairs and
crazy arches and David Bowie.
I will spend much time in my room.
Zoe
Kerry Eady
Twilight (lucr...@ix.netcom.com) writes:
> oh God. you don't know what you started with me, Siobhan. I *love*
> decorating, and I'm *good* at it, probably because my father is a painter
Me too, i actually get paid as a consultant and do paint jobs and faux
finishes for honest to goodness dollars. I can't wait til Tyren's in
school and I can consider getting back into it on a more or less full time
basis.
My dream house is still the one I was born in, right now it's a
haunted house, the people who bought it from us deserted it, but won't
sell it (crazy divorce) anyhow, it's a little brick school house, built at
the turn of the century with lots of neat architectural details like a
turret in the front (octagon bathroom in top and a very strange dungeon
like sex room in the bottom (seriously, my father was a porn collector and
kinda kinky from my mom's accounts, that room had a huge padlock on the
door when I was a kid). The basement has good lighting and as a child it
was all bedrooms (i'm one of 8 kids) but I'd redo it as a big
familyroom/entertainment room, refinish or raise the original pine
flooring down there too. There are two entrances, symetrical, a boys
entrance and a girls entrance, and rows of curly iron coat hooks, high and
low inside each. I'd leave those there and display some of my more
interesting coats and old shoes there.
Nicely finished pine floors, that still and will forver show where the rows
of desks were. my father hated that, and covered them with wall to wall
carpeting except in the hall, big ornate iron vent covers in the floor
there.
The original slates are still along the back wall, I'd use that space as a
dining area with a long table and tall backed chairs, I'd probably get my
father in law (cabinetmaker) to reproduce an old library table I love for us.
there's plenty of space to build up within the space so after renovating
the kitchen space I'd build a loft overtop and put my library up there as
a shallow facade to hide two small bedrooms up there (a hall filled with
built in bookcases as a wall making the bedrooms private)
I'd make the kitchen somewhat of a "school lab" and display my son's
growing collection of beetle, spider, snake and bat paraphenalia there in
a glass topped store display counter (another thing I've got the design
for but need the space to build and put it), It would work as a counter to
eat off of.
There are tons of creepy little nooks and crannies, closets under stairs,
places for spider webs to naturally occur so I'd leave them be. The
windows start 4 feet up the walls and continue up for another 10 feet I
think, tall skinny things, beautiful. I'd hang them with heavy dark
drapes, but only pull them on winter nights.
I hate drywall, but it's easy to work with so any plaster work I couldn't
handle i'd drywall and fake the plastering on top of it. Casein washes
over top, distemper is the most beautiful paint in the world, it glows,
dusty, isn't a regular finish, in muted creams in the main living area
(openconcept living/dining/kitchen) Roses from Venetian Red in my bedroom,
and a treasure map mural in my son's room, longitude and latitude lines on
a diagonal over the walls, islands, dragons, and oceans drawn on top.
I'd put up reproductions of 20's industrial lights hanging down to
illuminate the dining area and the kitchen and rely on floor lamps
everywhere else.
I'd have my religious artwork in my bedroom, and all my bones and map and
anatomy works in the open areas. i'd hang all my family portraits (black
and white photos) in the stairways.
May not be stereotypically goth, but it's my dream house and I have the
renderings and schematics to prove it.
My general advice to anyone starting out is forget decorating beyond
getting the bones that you need, furniture you love and will grow up
with you, after that everyone can afford paint, the big expenses that
don't travel well are things like curtains blinds, renovations and
improvements in apartments. I wish I always followed my own advice, I
spent way too much on a taxidermied raven and way too little on now
sagging tall bookcases.
Another big mistake is decorating around pieces of furniture that you
don't really like but are worth something and were given to you. The
bane of my existance is a very nice maple dining table that I can't
stand but follows us from house to house, city to city and never fits
with what I want to do with a space.
Kerr
Charlotte Ashley
My fantasy house would be ever so huge and have a whole lot of small tiny
theme rooms and even more great big theme rooms. A huge room with a
waterfall and lots of plants and windchimes *coating* the ceiling. A two
storey-tall room with rubber walls and a trampoline suspended over a
swimming pool. A huge dance studio that can go completely dark save for a
spotlight. Mazes of halls and a zillion secret doors and corodores and
stairs that turn into slides. Sevants that are never seen, sort of like
faeries. The outside would be like the house in _Little, Big_, with a
different front on every side.
I could go on far a while with exact descriptions of every room. But I
think I wouold hire a permanent staff of redecorators to redecorate the
wings I wasn't in so the next time I got there they would be different
than when I was last there...
Leanan Sidhe, who went for variety rather than actual style.
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Jenna
sio...@interlog.com (Siobhan NiLoughlin) delicately inquired:
> So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
Well...it would definitly have to have a music room. I would
kill to have a room that I could just sing and play in like that. Oh
oh and also a yard. (I simply would not make it in life without a
huge WALLED backyard) Hmmm....A formal dining room is always fun (as
I love throwing parties) And, since this is a fantasy house, I'll
include that huge ballroom I've always wanted. Color schemes of
purples for the music room and the bedroom. And for the ballroom a
very rich probably...tealish turqoise thing...(not sure how that would
work...) or maybe in rosewood colors... Def. lots of candles...oh
and in the ballroom a chandelier...Austrian crystal (back when they
killed themselves leading them....ah those were the days) But
actually use candles instead of wireing it for electricity. I also
would like a foyer type room, with this really awesome black tile (its
got the opalescent flecks) I am also a fan of stained glass windows
as well as french doors (preferably with designs etched into them)
Ah well should probably go write my magic
realism short story...
Megaera
"Vendo mis sue~os"- GGM
Lowri+Paul
In article <5apbkm$o...@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>, Norman Padilla
<norm...@ix.netcom.com> writes
>>the whole damn thing.
>
tardis, looks small from the outside, inside has about two hundred rooms
<because that's about how many fantastic decorating ideas I have.....>
One room would have stripped floorboards with sand cast over
them and a night time seascape with the moon and stars ,in their proper
constallations, shining over the ocean, would be panted as a mural on
the walls.
Another would be a massive, massive ballroom <where you'd have
to hold massive masquerades> with mirrors that make you feel dizzy
because they're all in odd positions and reflecting eachother making the
room seem innfinite.
Another would be with marble floors and crystalline sculptures
with silly magic powers, and gauze draped like spiders webs....
Would you like me to go on with my list??????
Lowri Lost in the Labyrinth.
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Trystan L. Bass
> So if you had a whole house to play in, what would you like to do?
> Go nuts, this is your fantasy house. Pick a favorite room or describe
> the whole damn thing.
I dream of the perfect combination of a high victorian frou-frou nightmare
of a house with techno modern extravagances. Awsome computers draped in
lace scarves, resting on ornate mahogany dressers, with overstuffed velvet
chaise lounges and delicate carved shelves holding leather-bound books and
ornate picture frames.
But that's just the decor -- the layout would have to have these rooms:
wardrobe/dressing rooms for each of my genres of clothing (the everyday
casual wardrobe, the nighttime wardrobe, the historical costume gallery,
etc.)
super-up-to-date computer room, completely ergonomically correct (fitted
just to me!)
a massive workshop for my seamstresses (personal employees are part of my
fantasy house ;-)
plus all the usual luxuries like a hot tub in the bathroom, home theater,
ballroom for dancing, vast & unending library, etc., etc.
*sigh*
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Posby
I'm in love with houses that have crooked doorways and bumpy floors. I
guess it's all those Historical landmarks I grew up around "back East".
I've always thought that having a big old house with a secret passageway
(like the one that goes from the locked part of Collinwood to the
downstairs, in Dark Shadows) would be wonderful fun! There is so much
history in something like that. So much to ponder...
I definately want a bathroom that is large and HAS A WINDOW!!! I'm
currently in my second apartment with a windowless bathroom and I HATE IT.
Those stupid ventalation fans don't do enough to keep the mildew from
growing. I never had this problem in windowed bathrooms...
As for the decor.... I want a nice big tub with feet. I'm tired of
shallow tubs that aren't nearly long enough.
Entering the bathroom, the window will be opposite the door. The panes
will be frosted or stained glass, and there will be billowy lace curtains.
The room will be cornflower or "wedgewood" blue, and have ivory trim and
stenciling along either the top or bottom of the walls. The floor will be
deeper blue tiles with ornate designs which will match the style of the
stenciling. The sink and toilet will both be ivory or white. There will
be plenty of shelves holding candles, flowers, and various shells and
bottles.
My sewing room will be off limits to the cats, so I can leave projects
out and not worry about intestinal blockage from a whole spool of thread
being eaten, or the swollowing of pins or ripping of fabric.
small table for beading, with proper lighting. large table for cutting
fabric. table with machine. Shelves to keep all of the fabric out where I
can see it, instead of folded in boxes. The walls will be a nice dusky
blue (as in the color of dusk) with more stencilling. perhaps a comet
trailing across the wall, and onto the deeper blue ceiling. My dressmakers
dummy (Sylvie) will stand in one corner. The stuffed animals will live in
there as well, as the cats tend to think they are theirs and they are all
currently high atop the cd shelves. There will be a windowseat, on which I
will sit and embroider...
There will be a library for all of our books and records (and CDs).
There will be a room for music making.
There will be a dressing room with shelves for all of our shoes.
The bedroom will be clean because the clothing and shoes will be in
the dressing room.
The kitchen will have enough counter space and plenty of windows.
The clutter will be kept in cat free zones, so we can make one of
those huge carpet covered things for the cats to claw and climb and sleep
on.
We will have hardwood floors, not tan carpets.
and a porch... a nice screened porch (to keep the mosquitos out).
*sigh*
dreams are nice....
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Posby
And in my fantasy house would be 6 cats. 3 sets of siblings. That way,
even if they all didn't get along perfectly, at least there would be pairs
that got along.
I keep thinking of getting one more cat, but know that I'd have to get
2 siblings since we have 2 brothers right now. It'd only be fair to the
little caterpillar... I don't know why, but my kittens reminded me of
caterpillars when they were tiny.
Chiriga
Well, my boyfriend/fiancee/live-in-lover may not agree with THIS,
but...my dream house, really, is an apartment. A *big* apartment,
granted, but still...with bare-wood floors and matte creamy-white walls
that look like whitewashed stucco, so when the sun shines through the big
east-facing master-bedroom window the walls have a muted golden
glow...<sigh> Err...better make some attempt to go at this
systematically, or it'll never work.
Basically, I'm revising an apartment I've already seen--spend the night
on my aunt's living-room futon waaaaay back in grade school. Been
dreaming about and drooling over that place ever since...
Living room: Biiiig, spacious, open room, with tall bookshelf-lined walls
for all my read-to-tatters paperbacks. Leave one wall free for my techie
hubby's tv/videogames/monster sound system. Matte steel frame futon with
creamy white coarse-cotton cushion, partially covered by a lovely nubby
soft woven throw/blanket in shades of deep, deep wine red and mahogany
brown...or maybe dusky grey-blue and midnight. Plenty of comfy
overstuffed chairs all around, and a plain wood coffeetable/endtable set
stained chocolate-brown. (Okay, I have a thing for colors.)
Through a wide archway-thingie (no door) into: the diningroom/kitchen.
Kitchen table is one of those huge squarish farmhouse-type ones, plain
wood, dark finish, maybe a little stain/stencil of black ivy on the
top...maybe. Comfortable chairs here too. On the wall over the table are
two unpretentious wall-sconces with vanilla-scented tapers on either side
of shelving (for my glasswares/teaset collections). Bare wood floors
again. The kitchen is cozy, big enough for two, but very neat and with
its own bookshelf for cookbooks...(here I'm stealing the kitchen of a
friend of ours who have this MARVELOUS house <gasp>, the man of which is a
gourmet cook...) Everything in its place, usually. BIG fridge (since we
have a little dinky half-sized one at my current home, blah).
From then on to: the bathroom. Maybe a blue/grey rag rug on the floor
here. Don't know if I want a tub as much as I do a monster big shower
running the length of one end of the room, tiled all over in
midnight/steelblue/cream, shelving set into the walls for all my luxury
bath products that I adore, and a bench against one wall. A COMFY bench.
Never you mind what for. And one of those nifty multiple-spray detachable
showerheads...BIG FLUFFY TOWELS, bathsheet towels (which can usually be
found at places like Venture/Targed/Linen's&Things and are divine) in blue
and cream.
From there: the bedrooms. At least three. The guest room will also be
our little computer nook, with hubby's expensive PC and my little
Packard-Hell-baby Watson for our own little BBS. Another futon, maybe, or
a full-size with bookshelves all around, and a little dresser.
Next bedroom, what I suppose will be our kid's room years from now (or
maybe that'll be the guest room): hubby insists on the decor here. FULL
of pillows. Satiny pillows, velvet-tasseled pillows, monster full-body
pillows, hundreds of them, covering the floor. He loves pillowfights.
<g> And maybe a little corner free for other stuff.
And then...the master bedroom. <blissful sigh> King-sized bed with
midnight flannel everything. I'm insisting on (for special occaisions) a
cream-colored-silk comforter...because we had one when I was little and I
LOVED it. (My god, I have a baby pic with that thing...) Maybe a nice
plush rug in here, but not wall-to-wall. Our PERSONAL bookshelves with
our PERSONAL books (the ones we can't put in the livingroom) and a big
cedar chest at the foot of the bed for our PERSONAL toychest. :) Like I
said before, big east-facing window with gauzy cotton curtains--don't know
what color--leading out onto: our very own balcony. With my
cast-iron-and-bronze windchimes from Pier 1 tinkling. And maybe mousquito
netting all around. And maybe a hammock if it's secure enough...although
it probably won't be. <happysigh>
Oh well...more than enough daydreaming/drooling...if you've read this far,
poor thing, go get yourself some hot cocoa and relax. I know it wasn't
very goth, but it was *COMFY*, and I'm a Scorpio and that's what I like.
:)
Shadowp1ay
This thread has got me a'thinking.
I'm having a very hard time coming up with a fantasy house,
Because I have two divergent styles competing in my head
with each other at all times!
One half of me dreams about living in a big warehouse,
Lots of disintegrating metal, and bare brick walls,
And things hanging from the ceiling on chains.
I also see loads of ripped black gauze hanging all over.
Rest of the decor is minimal, and black.
That's the industrial fantasy, I suppose.
The other half of me wants one of these mansions
That surround me here in the Garden District--
Massive, stone floors, lots of very dark wood, *huge*.
Armoirs, french doors with black gauzy curtains,
one of those book-lined libraries with the moving ladder
to reach the high spaces.
Just don't know how on earth I'm going to integrate
these two wildly different styles of mine.
If I ever do have a house instead of an over-crowded apartment,
I'm frightened of what it will turn out to be.
- Shadowplay
Lowri+Paul
In article <32D2A3...@azstarnet.com>, Zoe O'Reilly
<z...@azstarnet.com> writes
<Squeal, squueal, squeal!!!!!!!> I want a Jareth!!!!! A Jareth!!!!!
Yeay!!!!!! Come, Zoe, live in our forest!!!!
I've already started on my post, which is hanging around here somewhere,
but I haven't finished in the least!!!! It's going to be in a big
forest. A very big forest, and there's going to be a beautiful lake with
lots of rolling mists, and a few glades and orchards, a stone seat in
one glade where I can sit whilst Jareth reads poetry <My friend Hanna
Deleniel will be swimming in the lake at this time with Lestat David
Duchovny and a few hundred other gorgeous men, with torches blazing
around the lake>
There are going to be lots of box tree mazes weaving in amongst the
trees of the forest and our little house <little on the outside massive
on the inside> Is going to be made of logs.
On the other side of the lake is our fairytale castle where we
hold our balls and keep our escher painting room <this part belongs to
jareth, not Me, Deleniel or Tolia <another friend, more fairy goth than
anybody could possibly be> although we get invited over a *lot*>
We shall wear Pre Raphaelite and medieval dresses <which I am
attempting to make at the moment and failing miserably, but can't find
anywhere so....>
Oh I could go on for hours and hours and hours and hours
dreaming like this. Join us?
Lowri Felinde Lost in The Labyrinth Of Boring Reality.
Kerry Eady
Shadowp1ay (shado...@aol.com) writes:
> One half of me dreams about living in a big warehouse,
> Lots of disintegrating metal, and bare brick walls,
> And things hanging from the ceiling on chains.
> I also see loads of ripped black gauze hanging all over.
> Rest of the decor is minimal, and black.
> That's the industrial fantasy, I suppose.
Been there, done that, there's the fantasy and then there's the reality -
cold as hell, noisy, and fumes. Despite that, I loved living in my
studio. Anyone familiar with Toronto might know the building I lived in -
9 Hanna. Great community, wire horses running out of the ceilings in the
common area, studio walls pieced together and salvaged doors, or steel
doors all around. You also get the greatest junk from your neighbours, I
got an upright piano without it's shell, lots of metal plates and printing
press stuff from the garbage there. booze cans pop up every once in awhile.
If it wasn't for that pesky law that says it isn't a residential space
(live in fear of your landlord), and the fact that my immeadiate
neighbours were always spraying with car paints (choke) I'd have stayed
there forever.
kerr
enigma
> And in my fantasy house would be 6 cats. 3 sets of siblings. That way,
>even if they all didn't get along perfectly, at least there would be pairs
>that got along.
> I keep thinking of getting one more cat, but know that I'd have to get
>2 siblings since we have 2 brothers right now. It'd only be fair to the
>little caterpillar... I don't know why, but my kittens reminded me of
>caterpillars when they were tiny.
you don't have to get siblings. i have 10, with 3 brothers & a mom & 2
kittens set. (the "kittens" are now 8 years old) the rest are unrelated &
have arrived at different times & different ages.
there are some settling in spats with new arrivals, but it becomes minimal
the more cats you add. i think they stop noticing after awhile ;)
you do have to be careful not to pay too much attention to the new arrivals
over the existing cats... something that is very hard not to do with kittens
because they're so cute. hmmm, the amount of jealousy can be dependant on
how long you've had the other cats before you attempt to introduce new ones.
adding a kitten when your old cat is 8 or so & used to being an only child
is really asking for trouble.
i haven't had any serious problems adding new cats but my tolerance for
feline mayhem is pretty high. my main advice is get a really good vacuum
cleaner ;) and a vet that gives volume discounts (mine takes off 10% if i
bring 3 or more in at once.)
enigma
Posby
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, enigma wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970111...@shelob.aracnet.com>, Posby <po...@shelob.aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> > And in my fantasy house would be 6 cats. 3 sets of siblings. That way,
> >even if they all didn't get along perfectly, at least there would be pairs
> >that got along.
> > I keep thinking of getting one more cat, but know that I'd have to get
> >2 siblings since we have 2 brothers right now. It'd only be fair to the
> >little caterpillar... I don't know why, but my kittens reminded me of
> >caterpillars when they were tiny.
>
> you don't have to get siblings. i have 10, with 3 brothers & a mom & 2
> kittens set. (the "kittens" are now 8 years old) the rest are unrelated &
> have arrived at different times & different ages.
> there are some settling in spats with new arrivals, but it becomes minimal
> the more cats you add. i think they stop noticing after awhile ;)
> i haven't had any serious problems adding new cats but my tolerance for
> feline mayhem is pretty high. my main advice is get a really good vacuum
> cleaner ;) and a vet that gives volume discounts (mine takes off 10% if i
> bring 3 or more in at once.)
> enigma
I grew up with a house full of cats (anywhere between 5 and 7 at a
time - not counting the many litters of kittens mama cat had over the
years). I always took it for granted that cats just sort of co-exist
and never really "love" each other until I got these 2 fuzz-heads. They
groom each other and sleep and play together daily. occasionally there is
irritation displayed, but I never heard one growl at the other until 2 or
3 months ago when they had some exceptionally good catnip and one was
trying to eat it all himself. (they are a little over 1 1/2 years old now)
I just feel it would be easier for little ones to cope if there were 2,
just in case the rulers of the house decide they don't want to play,
snuggle or share with a new little beastie. Might make it easier NOT to
pay exclusive attention to a tiny fuzz if it has a friend or sibling of
the same age to amuse it...
not that we are in the position to get any new fuzzies any time soon...
we need a much larger dwelling if we are to do that. Especially with this
strong desire I have for more (at least part) Maine Coons. Ours are 1/2
Maie Coon and the SWEETEST cats on the planet. Not to mention their
size... one must be 14 lbs. by now.
Yotsi
A Victorian house with a high ivy-covered wall and wrought iron gates. I
could specify every room, but I won't. Needless to say I'd have a LARGE
library and a tower with a view.
@ustin
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One day, it occurred to shado...@aol.com (Shadowp1ay) to write:
>Just don't know how on earth I'm going to integrate
>these two wildly different styles of mine.
>If I ever do have a house instead of an over-crowded apartment,
>I'm frightened of what it will turn out to be.
Well, if you can afford a mansion, odds are you can afford a
warehouse, too.
At least that's how I'd* solve it. :)
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In article <19970113063...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, yo...@aol.com
(Yotsi) writes:
>A Victorian house with a high ivy-covered wall and wrought iron gates. I
>could specify every room, but I won't. Needless to say I'd have a LARGE
>library and a tower with a view.
>
>
Same here, yet i will take it one step futher, my fantasy house is alreay
picked out, i know every room, every stair every turn...now i just have to
figure out a way to buy it .....from the city! <boohoo> its being used as
a half-way house!!! <no i did not live there...but i have been through it>
Shadowp1ay
Kerry Eady <aj...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>Shadowp1ay (shado...@aol.com) writes:
>
>>One half of me dreams about living in a big warehouse,
>>Lots of disintegrating metal, and bare brick walls,
>>And things hanging from the ceiling on chains.
>>I also see loads of ripped black gauze hanging all over.
>>Rest of the decor is minimal, and black.
>>That's the industrial fantasy, I suppose.
>
>Been there, done that, there's the fantasy and then there's the reality -
>cold as hell, noisy, and fumes. Despite that, I loved living in my
[ snip ]
True, true. Several years ago, I had a friend
that lived on the third floor of a warehouse.
It was horribly cold, lacked good dependable plumbing,
and was what may possibly be the world's largest fire hazard.
But, hey-
If I 'm living in a fantasy warehouse,
It will have the fantasy central air/heat system, as well.
- Shadowplay
Shadowp1ay
victoria gwaed
Read Dark Dance by Tanith Lee. That is it, slightly blasphamous stained
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Penny Dreadful
The big beautifull Victorian mansion across the street from my building.
It has a widow's walk and when it was decorated for Xmas with all the
white fairylights and pine boughs and candles in the windows I swooned
over it constantly. Every time my SO and I pass it, I say, "Look how
pretty our house is today."
He said he'll buy it for me once the world has realised he's the Lenny
Bruce of his generation. :-)
love love love--
Penny Dreadful
who also wants the Federalist house her mom and stepdad live in.
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In article <19970112120...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
chi...@aol.com (Chiriga) writes:
> matte creamy-white walls
>that look like whitewashed stucco, so when the sun shines through the big
>east-facing master-bedroom window the walls have a muted golden
>glow...<sigh>
im so lucky to have this in my room.....mmmm...
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"you look wierd,
but kinda cutesy weird,
like a tim burton creature.
and im strangely attracted to you."
-the guy in the coffeehouse today
Chiriga
<<<
> matte creamy-white walls
>that look like whitewashed stucco, so when the sun shines through the big
>east-facing master-bedroom window the walls have a muted golden
>glow...<sigh>
im so lucky to have this in my room.....mmmm...>>>
I'm currently sharing my bedroom with my SO.
It's the room I grew up in in the house I grew up in.
The windows face west and north. WEST AND NORTH.
And we live in our own tiny little tree-lined valley...
WHICH MEANS WE CAN'T SEE THE SUNSET WORTH SHIT!!!
*sigh*
Wytche
I just want a little old English cottage or Scottish crofter's place. I
have all my velvet hangings and furniture and stuff...been collecting.
Want a kitchen with a fireplace in it and brick walls. Want exposed wood
beams, and dark wood floors.
Lots of candles everywhere...a bay window seat for reading (preferably
with a cat or two on it). Want a long rectangle rustic dining room table
with old church pews for seats instead of chairs. A claw foot tub in the
bathroom, with a shower attachment...ceiling fans...an attic that I can
play with and make into a spare room, escape room, den, playroom, etc...
Nelly Mercado
My fantasy house? an old church.
Maybe a churriguiresque style church (in Mexico there are no gothic
style churchs). With lots of candles, no benches, the altar would have a
stereo.
And I'd make parties there, the altar would be then a stage, so the
bands can play there...
I know its stupid, but its my *fantasy* house.
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Ted Smith
Nelly Mercado <nel...@mail.mx.ges.com> wrote:
All right, I'll tell you... My fantasy house would have dark red
brick, but none of it would show because it would be TOTALLY covered
with climbing ivy, no brick showing. The rooms inside would no have
any ninty degree angles, that would confuse the demons. Outside the
house, I would have inconspicuois lawn ornaments, like a small unicorn
barley visible under a bush, or a nice-looking concrete deer bareley
visible in the tree line, or gargoyles almost completly but not quite
covered by the ivy.
Chemosh
A black Marble versiion of St. John the Divine in NY...
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place for Chemosh the
abombination of Moab...."
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Valeskah
On Sun, 02 Feb 1997 01:13:04 GMT, tsm...@mer.cioe.com (Ted Smith)
wrote:
Basically I would be dying of love for a house with dark polished
floorboards throughout, high ceilings with ceiling roses, lots of
candles in wrought iron candlabras, and lots of space....
In the bedrooms there would be big futons with satin sheets, and black
mosquito netting everywhere, softly touched by the breeze through the
big windows looking out at the wild rose gardens. It would have to
have a bathroom with a huge bathtub, and mirrors, and half of one wall
being glass with creepers starting to grow up it.
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My fantasy house *must* have a fireplace in the master bath.
Otherwise my fantasy house varies depending on location. For
instance, my ideal home in Fiji is
Ligeia
katydid (kat...@pbrass.vip.best.com) wrote:
: My fantasy house *must* have a fireplace in the master bath.
We are working on finding/buying a warehouse in Frederick MD. Lots of
room...
Ligeia
"The Victorians" <lots of Pre-Raph art> on exhibit at the National Gallery
of Art in DC untill 5/2 "FREE to the public"
Alienspy
Mine will be the house where they filmed the ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW!!!!
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