Lindy-Lu Enjoys the View
For most of my adult life I lived in rented apartments. Dingy laundry rooms and laundromats were the norm. I once spent an hour with a police officer outside a Santa Rosa laundromat trying to reason with the woman who stole an entire dryer-full of my clothes. I managed to get everything back.
In 1996, my husband and I bought a house together with a washer and dryer hook-up in the garage. I figured life couldn’t get better than that. Sure, we had rats and cockroaches out there, and it got pretty hot mid-July, but I didn’t have to leave home to make clothes clean. Life was good.
When we remodeled our house seven years ago, the architect suggested an indoor laundry room as part of the expansion and my heart did a little dance. It would be a laundry room with a view! Our small-lot house is a mere five feet from the neighbor’s fence, but oh the possibilities. The windowed door looks out on three glorious vines, Hardenbergia and two Star Jasmine. Cyclamen grow along the side of the house and Baby Tears have infiltrated the walkway, their tiny leaves tucked in close to the stone. The greenery keeps me company as I wash, dry and fold for my family of four, an earthy reminder of the bounty of life’s gifts.
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An indoor laundry makes a big lifestyle improvement . . . and a significant improvement in your home’s value.
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You’re the real estate expert, so I’m happy to hear that was a good choice. That said, if it lowered the value I would still be thrilled with mine.
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Good for you! Those little luxuries can provide so much pleaure. I’m also lucky enough to have a laundry room with a view. Our little window looks out onto our front yard/walkway. Last year I spent hours at that window, intently observing a mother hummingbird tending to the eggs, then hatchlings, in her nest! I’ll write more about it when I get my blog running!
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I can’t wait to read more about it. Did you get photos as well?
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I was spellbound for weeks, alternately thrilled and riddled with worry! I do think Jim managed to get a photo of a chick on the nest. Will have to dig that up…
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You sound like me: “spellbound and riddled with worry.” Mother hens one and all. Making sure the little ones grow and fly the nest.
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