Personalizing My New Digs – (PowerHouseCreatives Contest) – Moving In

Personalizing My New Digs

I happened to grow up in a rural environment, as I’ve mentioned several times in my writing. It’s provided contrast. Contrast is a worthy aid. Predictably, contrast has revealed things to me due to my rural upbringing, and the main one is that there aren’t cockroaches in rural areas. At least there weren’t any where I grew up.

There really weren’t.

So why on earth am I opening a story about how I’d decorate, remodel, or refashion my new living quarters, by bringing up my experiences with yucky cockroaches? It’s simply because ever since I first started living in urban settings, I’ve become pretty familiar with the filthy bastards; but I’d first met them overseas.

I won’t be returning to rural settings. Wherever I may plan to spend the rest of my life, it will be in an urban setting. That means I’ll have to deal with the nasty buggers, and the best way to do that is to offer no quarter.

I would start by not having standard kitchen cabinets, and I’d opt for an open pantry as the pesky cockroaches like darkness and hiding places. I would have zero cabinets on the walls - just shelves – again, to deny access for homemaking in dark cabinets.

After the kitchen remodel, I would begin painting my new home inside. Rather than boring off-whites, I like walls to be colorful. I’m also not a wallpaper lover for more than one reason - though growing up, my parents were all into wallpaper – wallpaper’s messy going on and hell to get off. Indubitably.

The living room would be light pastel green. It’s easy imagining the comforting scene. The kitchen would shine in a most glossy red, and with stainless steel tiles on the half I’d embed. Additional highlights, orange and light brown, highlights blending like soft eiderdown.

Master bedroom would be painted in a color that’s dark, to help with my napping which in turn gives me spark. I’d also install a light-blocking shade, for the afternoon nap in plans I had made. Guest rooms would be painted so cheerful and bright; it would only be dark there with lights off at night, as guests shan’t be napping when outside it’s light.

There’s more. I’d also ensure all bathrooms were cheerfully designed; not only for the benefit of making guests comfortable but also for making me comfortable, as a dark, drab bathroom isn’t very nice. For the outside I would want pavers where possible; the patio area, walkways, etc., and opt for a smaller lawn footprint with plants occupying more lawn space.

It’s a good plan. I’ve covered a lot, but there’s still more we could do to be even more thorough. I haven’t yet mentioned how I would like for the garage to be. I’ll leave that for another time, but I’ll insist that my garage is a garage.

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Sources for images used in this post:

_{House: Image by Viktor Birkus from Pixabay
Farm: Image by David Mark from Pixabay
Pastel Green Wall: Photo by Tom Swinnen from Pexels
Bathroom: Image by DarthZuzanka from Pixabay}