it's a love/hate relationship, really

with my house, that is.

Some days, I'm just frustrated.

only weeks away from having these bloom in my yard again!



But today I remember the reasons why I love it.

• the tall, tall trees in my view
• the birds singing outside my windows
• how from certain angles I can't even see another house
• how I can walk out in the summer and dip my toes in the pool
• how my sun room floods with pure light every afternoon
• how it challenges my whole design thinking
• just how cute it is. Really. It will never be fancy, prestigious,  or stately. Just cute and charming {hopefully}.
• despite how small it is, I have an incredible amount of built-in storage
• my shuttered closet doors throughout
• my built-in dining room hutch
• my frequently used wood burning fireplace
• my mature landscaping (sometimes, too mature, overgrown)

So these are some of the things I remember when I tire of looking at the weird wall paper in the powder room or am frustrated when I think of how much green we've spent just to bring up to today's standards.

• when the only shower falls apart two days before Christmas and house guests come for a holiday visit
• the garbage disposal overflows in the basement and throws up all of my new beautiful washer and dryer
• when the heater decides its had enough, rusts through and floods the basement
• when the jerry-rigged water heater really decides its had enough and metal pieces start flying off of it and floods the basement again
• when the front steps disintegrate our first winter here and become a lawsuit waiting to happen
• when the melted snow from the roof starts running down the inside of my living room wall
• when the power goes out because, well frankly, that's what it does here anytime there's a storm (rain, wind, snow)
• when half the power goes out and we start trading appliances for power while we wait for the power company to replace an exterior breaker

Do you have a love/hate relationship with your house? What is about your house that you absolutely love? and makes you forget all the frustrating stuff?