Nate Berkus I Have A Dream
We are new home owners essentially. My husband and I have never owned a home, so this has been an adventure to say the least. No one tells you all the things that you have to do, that needs to be done and the gobs of money you need to do most of it. When we moved in, it was pretty exciting, and slowly we moved all our meager furniture into the house. Well, here we are about 8 years later and everything looks about the same, with the exception of some things we have done ourselves. Interior Decorator I am not.
Since being a stay at home mom, is what I chose in order to give my boys what I know is best for them, it limits the amount of money we can spend on all the extra things, like a new patio, or new furniture, and all the updates I sit here and fantasize about when I watch all these designer shows on tv.
It can get kind of depressing staring at the same unpainted white walls, the same 40 plus year furniture in our bedroom that in my desperation for something new, I stripped and refinished. The two dressers that we have, I got from my mom, who got it from some old lady, and then she gave it to me when I was 7, so Ive had it all these years. I changed the handles, stripped and refinished it, but it still looks the same. Our king size bed is just on a plane old frame, and nothing pretty.
Our living room couch is a sectional that I still love, but it has begun to sag and a few bolts have gone missing, one of the recliners doesn’t open because a handle broke, I believe it is 15 years old (it sure has held up though). With the exception of a very few pieces in our home, most of the furniture is the build it yourself kind. I have nothing against any of it, and it all looks ok, but I secretly dream of going into a furniture store and picking out “big girl” furniture.
Our dining room is empty still, it has my electric piano, and an old broken tv. Our den has more put together things like shelf cubes and a college like desk that is missing some of the fake finish (if there is such a thing)?
I would love to call up the local landscaper and say I would like a patio this color, with these flowers and have them fix up our wonderful backyard. I would for the boys to have one of those cool swing sets, since they are missing the roof off of the one we bought them.
Our home has these vaulted ceilings and that means walls that go on for miles (what were we thinking?), that need to be painted but I cannot reach! Our bedroom I painted this pretty blue, it too, has partially vaulted ceilings and lots of tall walls. I had to improvise, when our 12ft ladder wasn’t enough to reach the highest peak in there, so I had to tape a paintbrush to a wooden paint mixer stick to reach. If I don’t tell anyone you can’t notice, but that stupid corner drives me nuts LOL.
Our tv in the living room, is sitting on the boys toy box in our old entertainment unit (that we built), and I am not sure that will ever change. Our basement we built ourselves with my dad who is a carpenter. He framed it in and put up the drywall, and I mudded and finished it off. I love the little family space we have down there, but the one thing its missing is the ceiling. I have no idea how to do this, and it may have to stay like that. My basement is the scariest place ever. It has a crawl space that I would love to use for storage of all the “stuff” that we have, but I am afraid to go up in there for anything. It is dark and creepy and all gravel, what if there are spiders up there? eek! And then there is the sump pump, that is below our bedroom, that makes lots of noise. If the power goes out our basement will flood, but the noise is horrendous zzzzzzzzzzz clunk, zzzzzz clunk. I got industrious and tried to change the check valve, I think it makes more noise now than it did, I got so aggravated that anyone who sees it will say what the heck? But, I took a body pillow and duct taped it around the pipe, thinking it would deaden the noise. Nope!
Anyway, you get the idea, I love our home, I love being home, but I don’t love how things are, I want to invite people in and come home to something beautiful. I don’t have some heartfelt story to tell you, to put me on a show like Extreme Home Makover, but I secretly dream of coming in the door to something magnificent, something that doesn’t feel depressing, something that doesn’t need work, or falling apart, or that needs to be changed. I would love to see our home at it’s full creative potential, but I don’t have a the money or enough imagination to make it so.
So I have a secret dream. I would like to give Nate Berkus my home for a week or two and let him surprise me, I wish that I could give him an all access pass to my backyard, my front yard, and most of all, the entire interior of my home. I love everything that he has done, and all the beautiful things he does and what he puts into things, I love the spirit that he has about him, and if he showed up at my door, I would probably pee my pants to say the least. A girl can dream, can’t she?
Nate if you are out there somewhere….make our house a wonderful place to be. Well ok, im still dreaming, but I am secretly hoping and wishing.
