moving on from the lounge room

My favourite thing in this house other than the floorboards, are these swing doors between the lounge room and the bedrooms and bathroom. 

They swing back and forth but are mostly propped open.

The handles are lovely and modernist too.

moving home

So I've lived in my current home for 13 years now, and Camp Hill for the last 35 years or so. Ive enjoyed the closeness to the city, the easy transport solutions and relative quietness of the neighbourhood. The constant construction in the past 5 years hasnt been fun and I've enjoyed the absence of incessant airplane noise this past year of covid. 

And now its time to leave. Now that the suburb ive loved is just starting to come alive with antique stores and bars and little boutique cafes and all sorts of nice neighbourhood amenities.

Time to find sonewhere for myself in the Worst. Real Estate. Market. Ever. Seasoned, cashed-up Buyers are out there doing it tough and my oblivious-ass is joining them soon.

I feel i need to record my house. Before it goes. Im sure it will get flipped into a Hampton-esque soulless family-box, or demolished and replaced with a Hampton-esque soulless family-box.

Ill start with the backyard. Today was a great Spring Saturday morning. Bright, damp and a warm sunny day brewing. Washing in the machine, pottering in the gardens, checking on plants and flowers.

This is the last of the garden path that used to connect my laundry with a rotary washing line that used to be in the middle of the neighbours backyard before the neighbouring house was moved there when the backyard was subdivided.

The house is pretty original to how the first family left it. The glass window to under the house is a favourite quirk, as is the only sash window from the kitchen to the backyard that the geckoes run across at night.

Under the backstairs is a great place to store my gardening bits and the lounger i found by the side of the road. Moss grows great on the concrete there and Sol lurks beneath the stairs to survey her world and swipe at ankles.