Nooks
August 3, 2011
I love my house, I really do. Nothing feels more homey to me than my spaces filled with all my people and my treasures. It’s cozy, it’s comfy, it’s my sanctuary. I could die in my house, I love it that much, and I am grateful for each day I live in it.
However.
I have thoughts of building again. I harbor them deep in my soul, and it keeps me awake at night. It’s why I continue subscribing to all those shelter magazines, tabbing all the ideas for my ‘next house’. Confess, I know many of you do this too. You have pages torn from magazines of the things you’d include if you ever build a dream home. I have many images stored in binders and also online, it’s why I’m a Pinning fool.
One of the things I will have many of in my future dream house on five acres with a botanical garden and lavender field that I may or may not ever have the fortune to plant and build someday is a . . . nook. Well, not one nook. Several. Many. Many nooks would make me very happy. The world needs more nooks, don’t you think?
I shall definitely build a sunny breakfast nook.
I shall tuck a secret nook under the stairs too. It will make a great space for impromptu puppet shows or mid day cat naps.
My future fantasy home needs several window nooks too, a place for me and the dog or the cat and a good book.
And I simply must have a built in reading nook in my fantasy dream home. This image below reminds me so much of the built-in bed in the house I grew up in. It wasn’t white like this at all, in fact, it was all dark wood. Our reading nook was tucked away in the corner of our living room just like this, next to big bright windows, and my sister and I would curl up in in for hours, me with my Nancy Drew and she with her Anne of Green Gables. We laid there toe to toe for hours, it was perfect.
I love this one too, for its bold color and pattern medley.
Here’s a fun colorful version, perfect for a kid’s room.
Boston Design Guide, Fallon Homes
Of course, I’ll need several for all my grandbabies. Yes, I think about my grandbabies, I must have many of them too.
Nooks. I need ‘em. I need several of them in my fantasy dream home.
If you could build a house from the ground up, what’s the one thing you would include? Are you a nook obsessed like me?
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Tags: Inspiration, nooks
