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So…
Since it’s deliciously cool outside, it’s football season, and the leaves are actually falling this year, I’m looking for ways to dress the apartment up in some homeyness.
But now that I’m all grown up, I don’t really know what that means. Am I looking for my mother’s kitchen with the plaster rooster, floral wallpaper accents, and colonial dinette set? No.
I just want that fall flavor. That sense of warmth you get when you come in from the cold with ruddy cheeks, when you peel off the outer layers and get comfy, knowing Halloween is this week, and soon it’ll be Thanksgiving. I’m missing that feeling of standing at the front door with a little chill, the only barrier between me and the cold, an aluminum door and some tempered glass.
So I’m thinking about things like bringing flowers in, hanging a many-shades-of-brown-and-yellow wreath on the front door, and getting a pumpkin.
And I’m toying with the idea of breaking some house rules (maintain flat surfaces, minimal living, one-tv-is-enough) and adding a baby flat screen to the kitchen. There was always a tiny tv in my mother’s kitchen. The tv where we watched the news and Jeopardy, where the Thanksgiving Day parade flickered despite all attempts at fixing the antenae.
We all know you can’t go back home, but I’m wondering if this is one thing I can recapture: the kitchen as a place to hang out.
PROS:
TV = More cooking, more often.
Less eating out/ ordering in.
House smells nice like yummy food.
Able to watch It’s a Wonderful Life while cracking the annual peppermint bark.
There’s a tv in the kitchen.
CONS:
We become a middle of the country household with two televisions, going on ten.
Holes under the cabinet.
Ruined “clean” look in here.
I gain ten pounds.
There’s a tv in the kitchen.
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This is the item under consideration. Yea or Nay?