School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
I liked the house(s) I grew up in, all three of them. I was seven when I first moved, I think, and barely a teenager the second time. Mostly I remember the third place, the lucky one. The charmed one.
This house isn’t the first house I’ve owned, and it’s the seventh place I’ve lived since moving out of my childhood home.
I think it’s the first place I’ve lived since becoming an actual honest to goodness adult. Or at least something adjacent to that liquid concept.
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I’ve rationalized homes as falling into two categories:
grown up houses
&
not grown up houses.
I, and most of the people in my life were lucky enough to grow up in grown up houses maintained and designed by their parents. When I went to college and was expected to maintain my own home the quality fell off a cliff. I understand this is a rather common experience. Eighteen year olds are not great at the mechanics and maintenance assosciated with domestic bliss.
This house feels very different from my childhood homes, it doesn’t feel grown up in the same way that they did, but it does feel grown up.
This house isn’t the first house I’ve owned, and it’s the seventh place I’ve lived since moving out of my childhood home.
I think it’s the first place I’ve lived since becoming an actual honest to goodness adult. Or at least something adjacent to that liquid concept.
grown up houses
&
not grown up houses.
I, and most of the people in my life were lucky enough to grow up in grown up houses maintained and designed by their parents. When I went to college and was expected to maintain my own home the quality fell off a cliff. I understand this is a rather common experience. Eighteen year olds are not great at the mechanics and maintenance assosciated with domestic bliss.
This house feels very different from my childhood homes, it doesn’t feel grown up in the same way that they did, but it does feel grown up.
