her thumbprints's listography

inside

• wooden floors
• the only clutter is books, old books, holding up lamps and glasses of water
• chipped tile
• peeling printed wallpaper from the previous owner; too nostalgic and delicate to remove
• mint green painted walls, faded
• claw foot tub, heavy flawed porcelain
• mason jars as drinking glasses
• rescued cast iron skillets
• some turquoise
• muddy wellies by the door
• spice cabinet stuffed with saffron and ginger and cayenne pepper
• big bay windows with cushions + pillows
• a secret passage
• origami creatures strung from the ceiling
• an old typewriter at an old desk with calligraphy pens and printed paper, for long letters
• art on the walls in big, ornate frames (found on the side of the road) → all the beautiful artwork my friends create, sumi-e paintings and hitsuzendo works, things from my aunt tina's attic
• fire place
• poems scrawled on walls

outside

• a porch, a café-style table and a swing — for reading, watching the rain, sleeping
• moss and ivy coating the outside
• big, venerable trees, with a treehouse
• at least one weeping willow, and it shall have a grand name
• clotheslines
• big, big garden full of herbs, vegetables and flowers to attract the butterflies, perhaps even a small, small orchard with a couple plum trees and apple trees
• rough, handmade windchimes made out of anything and everything
• near a lake and/or river, and close enough to smell the sea
• birdhouses
• woods
• a long, long road