Interior Design – Sidebar to Windows Reveal the Soul of a Good House
Years ago, before the California real estate market went from boom bust, I went to house search with my family. A broker showed me an old two-story house that was priced low and close to a rural town center.
But what almost sold me on the residence was a small square window. Not much bigger than the average cereal box. But a whole lot sweeter.
The broker had me pulled out a narrow staircase to show me the large attic, which he claimed – "with alittle work "- was a real third floor. In a precarious spot on the stairs, he pushed me and said," How about this view, is not it? "
View? What attitude? Surely, he must in jest.
I turned around and saw the small square window high on the wall. Standing on my toes, I looked through the small frame and saw a beautiful mountain landscape, shrouded in clouds and brooding threat of rain. I did not want the house. I wanted the little window, the little spaceof amazement.
Windows are not just a convenience. They are the frames of the personal history of nature. And we are ready to voyeurs.
If gardens and neighborhoods and even the vaulted sky, day and night were modest, a little, they might blush to see our tireless. To see everything. But preferably in a frame. A well-placed, well-designed window frames that you like scene from the melodrama that includes the great outdoors.