I’ve always wanted to live in a castle, so I guess this is my second choice: a house that looks like a castle.
Alright, hear me out. Hear out my brilliant plan that is so very genius that I can hardly believe it myself. Okay, so, we’re selling our house. ‘Selling our house’, wink, nudge. Albert has been talking about moving out for years, but I know he’s not completely serious. Well, I’m about to bring it up and persuade him to my way of thinking. We’re getting older, and with getting older comes a tendency to become stuck in your ways, so drastic measures have become necessary.
So, phase one. We find a company in Melbourne who does home styling. That’s the thing that people do when you want to sell your home: they come in and make the whole place look just…better. Renovations, re-tiling, whatever needs doing to add value. There’s plenty that needs doing, but that’s not my main focus at the moment. Right now I’d like to draft up some plans for castle-ifying the place, such as adding some Tudor beams, adding a stone well out the back and converting the loft room into a turret shape. We need to get rid of that awful blue door we have that looks like it’s made of cheap plastic, possibly replacing it with an even bigger door. An oak door, with everything that goes with a proper oak door. Authentic wear and tear. Giant brass bolts. A door knocker in the shape of a lion!
Albert knows my ambitions, but maybe I can get him to go along with it, being my husband of sixty years and all. It’s not too much to ask to install an actual moat around the house, is it?
Alright, so people who do property styling might not be completely on board with that sort of thing, given that most of what they do is more design-based. And then I’d feel terrible saying we’re going to sell the place and then not doing that.
Does Melbourne have any specific renovators for castles? Or do I have to make Albert do it all himself??
-Alberta