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THE IDYLLIC HOUSE

INTRO

My “idyllic house” is a quite place in the suburbia where I can feel safe, comfy and relaxed. A place where when you wake up in the morning you can smell the scent of just-baked croissants and the grass just mowed and your alarm wakes you with your favorite song and a cup of coffee is waiting for you in the kitchen. It’s a place where the street is never busy and the neighbors are caring, lovely people. The house is quite big, with many windows, it has a bright atmosphere and a wonderful view on the big, luxuriant garden. The perfect house for me is modern but with that country style and retro flavor that makes everything more real and, in my opinion, easier to feel home.

OUTSIDE 

My house is enclosed by a white fence, I’ve been dreaming of that fence since I was in primary school, and a small, wooden white gate. the mailbox is light blue, covered with climbing ivy just like the fence. In the front garden there’s a granite-made path with bushes on each side that leads from the gate to the porch and is surrounded by a green lawn. There are bushes also in front of the house, near the stairs that lead to the wooden paved porch. The house’s walls are light blue, there are red roofing tiles and cream colored wooden frames with brown window sills. The front door is made of both glass and wood. There are bushes and trees on both sides of the house where the windows are really wide; in the back garden there is a great variety of flowers and trees: some cherry trees, an old oak and plenty of flowers such as roses and hydrangeas and many others. There’s a porch on the back of the house, too and a lawn and a 8x15 m swimming pool 1,20m deep. The area that surrounds the pool is paved with granite and during the summer there’s also a sunshade with several sun beds on the poolside. The garden is a heaven-on-Earth place as I spend a lot of my spare time outside and I seldom do some gardening, too.



INSIDE

On the ground floor of my idyllic house there’s the hall, on the right side of which there’s the dining room connected to the kitchen and the laundry and on the left there’s the living room. Meanwhile, on the first floor there’s the bedroom with the wardrobe room, the bathroom and the art room. There are small and almost invisible speakers in every room, connected to the big stereo in the living room, this way the music can be heard in the whole house and can wake me up in the morning or keep me company while cooking, ironing and makes the housework even bearable.

THE HALL 

The hall is not huge; it has one door on each side and the stairs opposite to the front door. The doors are wooden but the hall’s floor and the stairs are made respectively of grey and white marble. There’s also a small table with a white orchid on it near the hall stand where you can drop the bag or the keys once you arrive home.

THE DINING ROOM 

This is a typical dining room with a table of carved wood and eight matching chairs; there are some potted plants near the window and a light green country style cupboard on the opposite wall which contains a porcelain tea set, a set of crystal glassware and a set of cutlery. The floor is made of a light-colored wood and the curtains are made of simple white cotton. The atmosphere is relaxed, as I have dinner there every night and I hate those serious and cold dining rooms where you eat only when you have dinner parties, so mine needs to be cosy and warm.

THE KITCHEN

The kitchen as the dining room, is simple and country style. It has to be really big, with the best supply of cooking tools and equipment. It has a big fridge and a freezer, a modern oven to bake cakes but also cook quiches or roast beef. As I’m not keen at all at cleaning after I cook, it absolutely has a big dishwasher near the sink. There are also many cupboards and drawers to keep dishes, glasses and cutlery, a hob and a wide table in the center of the room where the cooking can be done. Bothe the table and the area near the hob are made of wood with a marble slab on the top. The curtains are white just like the ones in the dining room. There are some spot lamps on the ceiling, the main chandelier is very simple and made of wrought-iron and frosted glass.

THE LAUNDRY

The laundry room is located near the kitchen; it has a tiled floor and light blue walls. There are two washing machines and several shelves and cupboards to keep cloths and cleaning products and supplies. It also has a big sink to wash the clothes that cannot be put in the washing machine, an ironing board and a clothes hanger. In the laundry room are stored all the brooms and the vacuum cleaner, too.

THE LIVING ROOM

The living room of my idyllic house needs to be a relaxing place, so it must have two big, soft white leather couches with heaps of orange cushions to cuddle up while watching a movie on a flat screen TV, which is of course provided of a DVD writer and player and a home theatre. The TV is set on a low light brown piece of wooden furniture and over the cream and orange carpet on the parquet there’s a matching coffee table. As the windows are really wide to let the sunlight in during the daytime, the curtains are long and made of net. Opposite to the TV screen there’s a wooden bookcase with its desk. The bookcase is filled to the brim of books and on the desk there’s a computer with its scanner and printer.

THE BEDROOM 

The Bedroomhas a terrace and a big window and the only artificial light comes from the chandelier, the spot lamps over the bed and from the bedside lamps. The walls are white and purple, there’s a picture of a flower on the wall behind the bed and light purple curtains. The bed is big, soft, simple and modern with matching white and light purple sheets and pillows. The bedside tables are white as the make-up table which is set in front of a mirror and has its stool. There’s also a chaise longue on the other side of the bed, near the window and a purple carpet on the white floor.

THE WARDROBE ROOM

As I would love to have as many clothes and shoes as Gabrielle does, in my dream house I’ll need a wardrobe room. It has many white wooden shelves for the shoes and bags and drawers and a hall stand for my clothes. The floor is made of wood and the white furniture has elegant metallic handles; several spot lamps hang on the ceiling and on the wall there’s a big mirror.

THE BATHROOM 

The bathroom has a very modern style; both the walls and the floor are tiled with white, big, square-shaped tiles. It has two matching white sinks on a black, varnished piece of furniture hanging on the wall, provided with many drawers to keep towels, extra toothpaste and shampoo and all the other bathroom supplies; in front of it, hangs a wide rectangular mirror. The bathroom has both a shower with glass walls and a bathtub, because even if doing the morning shower can be relaxing, a long hot bath is much better!

THE ART ROOM

The art room is my sanctuary, so I really need one in my idyllic house. I love everything artistic: drawing, painting, I’ve done it my whole life, which isn’t much time really, but it’s my way of temporary getting away from problems. My specialty is scrapbooking and I need a lot of supplies to do it. My art room has a light brown parquet and light blue walls; it has many shelves to contain all the catalogued supplies and a wide desk to work on. it also has a smaller wooden desk with its stool on which I can trimmer or match materials before properly working on them. It has drawers and also transparent labeled boxes, as it seems I can’t ever find the supply I need when it’s needed.