I like my house, but I want another house. I’m not sure if it’s just grass is greener stuff, but it probably is. Anyways, I want to type about it.

My current place has about 77m squared land. Imagine having like 200m squared. That would be lovely. I have a lovely roof balcony now, but I can do without the roof balcony, where I have to go up flights of stairs to get to.

I want the first floor to have the living/dining, they can be separate rooms like in older houses, but I also want a tatami room on the first floor that’s basically empty and has a view of prettiness outside. Go and shogi could be played in this room. Books can be read. A kotatsu would not be out of place.

The second floor can have three rooms. If we have a kid, they kid can have a room. I want a study and then my wife and I need to sleep somewhere. That sounds unfair as where is my wife’s extra room, but the answer is the living room. She can have her millions of books in there. I’d prefer to have the living room, but we need to be realistic here.

There would be a small yard for barbecues, despite me not really liking barbecues. That couldn’t be more beside the point though.

What this house wouldn’t have is an eight minute walk to the station on a line that connects to Ikebukuro, Shinjuku and Shibuya in roughly 30 minutes. With COVID, the charm of that has become somewhat forgotten, but imagine being able to go to the opera easily (see barbecues above).

A different house also wouldn’t be close to the in-laws, and if we have a baby, that would be nice.

So anyways, just dreaming in blogform about something I may or may not actually want if I actually put some thought into it.