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I had a dream last night, and remembered it, and I'm greatly amused.
In the dream, we had been looking to move again - I think to a new area, but I'm not sure - and Scott had a chance to look at a possible house when I wasn't available. He put an offer and they agreed, so we were buying it, and I hadn't even seen it yet. So we arranged to go see it. The current owner was still living there at the time and hosting a party, but had welcomed us coming to it all the same.
As one does sometimes in dreams, I was naked (hate those!) and wanted to hide. The owner of the house, a nice lady (and lady is the proper term - aristocratic, a little, was my impression), was undisturbed by my being naked and prepared to show us around through her party that way, until she understood that I hadn't *meant* to be naked, whereupon she loaned me a very nice dress. (My brain: so not good at nightmares. LOL.)
Anyway, we then commenced the tour of the house, which was actually a mansion. In the dream, I loved it. The rooms were large, interestingly arrayed - it was architecturally beautiful inside, not rectangular blocks, but it made a cohesive whole. It had high ceilings throughout, and lots of big windows on the exterior walls. I remember a room that was...take two identical (and large - 20 foot by 20 foot?) square rooms and put them corner-to-corner - then shove one of them in so that they overlap by about 5-10 feet of wall on each side (so there's a 10x10 or so "box" and then the two rooms). Now blow out the walls that block that 10x10 or so corner so they're open to each other in a not-quite-figure-eight. I'm not sure I have that right, but it's close.
The master bedroom was smaller, though not tiny - it had a king sized bed in it and there was perhaps 10 feet from the foot of the bed to the wall, with the head of the bed against the opposite wall. Except the wall opposite the foot of the bed was entirely windows, looking out at a patio?garden? space which was mostly paving stones except for a maybe 5' wide and 15-20' long water feature stretching away from the window, just a flat gazing pond except at the far end it had a small waterfall *down* to a lower level - you could see a little misting from it - although in the dream I "knew" it was a short waterfall, I think only 5 feet. In any case, the point of this water feature was to pull the eye to the mountains, which were visible above/beyond/framing the waterfall space.
There were plants, in planters, but low so as not to block the view. Mostly flowering and with dark green foliage, I think.
The interior of the house, I remember looking at and thinking that when she moved out and we moved our stuff in, we would not have it looking have so perfect and gorgeous. Lots of black/dark brown/tan contrasts, minimalism, very clean. Zen prints. The quilt or comforter on the bed was a black/cream with vertical stripes (thin black, a couple inches; maybe 1-foot cream stripes) and patterns on the cream in black, not covering every bit of it but just a few here and there, lots of curving lines in those.
The most amusing part is that while I *adored* the place and was *thrilled* we were buying it in the dream...the reality is I would never want to buy or own it in real life. Lots of things about it that are "things I love" but not "things I want to own or be responsible for" and more house than I want to *live in* even if someone else was responsible for taking care of it. I *would* like to have the view of the mountains, though. And some of the decor. Those bits are worth making note of. (Since I don't want to move, a VIEW of the mountains is not likely. Art, however....)
In the dream, we had been looking to move again - I think to a new area, but I'm not sure - and Scott had a chance to look at a possible house when I wasn't available. He put an offer and they agreed, so we were buying it, and I hadn't even seen it yet. So we arranged to go see it. The current owner was still living there at the time and hosting a party, but had welcomed us coming to it all the same.
As one does sometimes in dreams, I was naked (hate those!) and wanted to hide. The owner of the house, a nice lady (and lady is the proper term - aristocratic, a little, was my impression), was undisturbed by my being naked and prepared to show us around through her party that way, until she understood that I hadn't *meant* to be naked, whereupon she loaned me a very nice dress. (My brain: so not good at nightmares. LOL.)
Anyway, we then commenced the tour of the house, which was actually a mansion. In the dream, I loved it. The rooms were large, interestingly arrayed - it was architecturally beautiful inside, not rectangular blocks, but it made a cohesive whole. It had high ceilings throughout, and lots of big windows on the exterior walls. I remember a room that was...take two identical (and large - 20 foot by 20 foot?) square rooms and put them corner-to-corner - then shove one of them in so that they overlap by about 5-10 feet of wall on each side (so there's a 10x10 or so "box" and then the two rooms). Now blow out the walls that block that 10x10 or so corner so they're open to each other in a not-quite-figure-eight. I'm not sure I have that right, but it's close.
The master bedroom was smaller, though not tiny - it had a king sized bed in it and there was perhaps 10 feet from the foot of the bed to the wall, with the head of the bed against the opposite wall. Except the wall opposite the foot of the bed was entirely windows, looking out at a patio?garden? space which was mostly paving stones except for a maybe 5' wide and 15-20' long water feature stretching away from the window, just a flat gazing pond except at the far end it had a small waterfall *down* to a lower level - you could see a little misting from it - although in the dream I "knew" it was a short waterfall, I think only 5 feet. In any case, the point of this water feature was to pull the eye to the mountains, which were visible above/beyond/framing the waterfall space.
There were plants, in planters, but low so as not to block the view. Mostly flowering and with dark green foliage, I think.
The interior of the house, I remember looking at and thinking that when she moved out and we moved our stuff in, we would not have it looking have so perfect and gorgeous. Lots of black/dark brown/tan contrasts, minimalism, very clean. Zen prints. The quilt or comforter on the bed was a black/cream with vertical stripes (thin black, a couple inches; maybe 1-foot cream stripes) and patterns on the cream in black, not covering every bit of it but just a few here and there, lots of curving lines in those.
The most amusing part is that while I *adored* the place and was *thrilled* we were buying it in the dream...the reality is I would never want to buy or own it in real life. Lots of things about it that are "things I love" but not "things I want to own or be responsible for" and more house than I want to *live in* even if someone else was responsible for taking care of it. I *would* like to have the view of the mountains, though. And some of the decor. Those bits are worth making note of. (Since I don't want to move, a VIEW of the mountains is not likely. Art, however....)
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