drool.

Anyone else catch the amazing homes featured today on Grassroots Modern? The post was about photographer Eric Staudenmaier, but I'm as captivated with the homes as I am with the photography. I especially love the turquoise shelving with turquoise chandelier. Eek!

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Really, who wouldn't love to have a library like this? My cousin recently posted about her current library and her dream library. I'd like a library in our someday house, and would be totally satisfied if it looked like this. I don't have nearly enough books (I'm more of a book-borrower than a book-buyer) but that can change. Time to start combing thrift stores for my favorites.

I also want to share with you a short email conversation I had with Mr. Nielsen's architect brother today, who introduced me to Grassroots Modern.

Me: Have you seen today's post on Grassroots Modern? I'm drooling over those houses. Any photographs of those houses would look amazing.

Architect Brother-in-Law: Marta, the ultimate goal is for you to have a house of your own that you drool over.

Amen to that. Maybe then my house will be featured on Grassroots Modern.

all i want is a room somewhere.

Well, actually that's not "all I want." The other day I saw something on Design*Sponge that I loved. I thought to myself, "I must go back later and post a link to this on my house blog." Well guess what, I forgot, and now I can't remember what it was. I mostly love everything on there.

Instead I'm going to share a list of "wants" for our future house:

• I want it to be easy to clean. The floors (and counters!) in our current home have lots of ridges, including wide grout lines, and I strongly dislike trying to clean the gunk out of said ridges. Grout lines are difficult to sweep and mop. I want our future house to be so easy to clean that I'll actually want to do it. If anyone has suggestions for how to do this, please leave them in the comments section.
• I want our future house to be tight. There are environmental and economic reasons for this (tight house means less leakage in and out of cold/hot air) but those are not my main reasons. I don't want to feel like I'm camping in our future house, meaning no giant caterpillars, no big spiders, no earwigs in the microwave, and no mice. Period. I want it to be so tight that these suckers cannot get in.
• I want to have storage. I want things to have a place. Somewhere for the wrapping paper, somewhere for the food storage, somewhere for the coats. I want to be able to easily put things away.

Those are the main points on my mind right now (mostly because we have had multiple critter encounters in our current house to the point that I'm ready to move in with the parents).