Monday 11 February 2008

ATTICS

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have an attic?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Clutter expands to fill the space available.

I used to have a garage. Every few years it would fill up with junk. I would get a skip, clear out the garage and start filling it up again.

I lost the garage when I converted it to a fourth bedroom. Since then, I've been filling up my spacious attic. I can now store only those things small enough to get through the hole in the ceiling (although it's quite a big hole and I'm sometimes surprised at what can be manouevred through).

Large items of furniture now have to be got rid as soon as they are no longer needed - e.g through Freecycle. They can be used by someone else.

When I had a garage, I could store things until they rusted or rotted or were chewed by insects or mice - until they were fit only for the tip.

I don't think much is rotting in the attic, but I can't be sure. There's so much junk up there, I can't even begin to think about sorting it out.

I daresay most of it will stay in the attic until I move home or die. It's pointless keeping it all but I just can't let go.

O for a smaller attic - or no attic at all! Can anyone lend me the money to convert it to a fifth bedroom?

Susan Harwood said...

Anthony . . . I'd call a storage space accessed through a hole in the ceiling 'a loft'.

What I'm meaning is a room in the roof, accessed up wooden stairs, where boxes of interesting objects . . . and books . . . and toys . . . can be stored through the generations.

You know, the kind of place where children in books have magic adventures on wet, English afternoons.

Susan