{"id":1358,"date":"2011-01-16T04:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2011-01-16T04:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T04:44:18","slug":"my-dream-house-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/my-dream-house-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"My Dream House Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">I currently live in my dream house because: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>a)\u00a0 We own it outright, and <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>b)\u00a0 It has walls, heat, running water and room outside to garden and play.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">I&#8217;m not awfully picky. <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\"> Just (a) would have had me happy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>BUT&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">If I were going to design my dream house, here&#8217;s some things it would have in it&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">A fireman&#8217;s pole from every floor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Swings in the children&#8217;s rooms<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Room for a piano<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Windows everywhere<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Woods in the back yard<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Lots of places to climb (inside and out)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">A dining room table big enough for twelve (minimum)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">An art room with built in easels, a drain in the floor and a hose for quick cleaning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">A hot tub<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">A play room with a built-in trampoline<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">And a slide like this to get downstairs:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/housewithslideaboday2.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/housewithslideaboday4.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">But not just for the kids to use!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>(See more of this house at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2010\/08\/26\/playhouse-by-aboday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dezeen<\/a>.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">Honestl<\/span><span style=\"color:#008000;\">y, I do love my house.\u00a0 I love that it came to us so old and bedraggled, because it gave us free reign to do whatever we liked.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The old door to Victoria&#8217;s room was so banged up, blackboard paint and magenta trim was perfect for it.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/image_full_width\/hash\/97\/67\/976736003426d26278518f34ca5f68ac.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"430\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">The weathered, painted stairs called out for words stenciled on them like Hope and Dream and Imagine.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">(S<\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">peakin<\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">g of imagining, I can&#8217;t find the lovely picture of the girls on the stairs that I was going to put here so you&#8217;ll have to imagine it!)<\/span><\/span><\/em><strong><em><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\">And what&#8217;s the harm in letting the children paint the inside of the cupboard doors when they&#8217;re so old and tacky to begin with?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>But just the same, it is fun to dream sometimes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\">Join in!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#008000;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><span style=\"color:#008000;\">What would be in your dream house, especially for playing?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently live in my dream house because: a)\u00a0 We own it outright, and b)\u00a0 It has walls, heat, running water and room outside to garden and play. I&#8217;m not awfully picky. \ud83d\ude09 Just (a) would have had me happy. BUT&#8230; If I were going to design my dream house, here&#8217;s some things it would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}