This Old House
my parents are in the midst of finally designing their retirement home and it, for lack of a better word, is turning out to be a test of patience. but fun at times nonetheless. for those of you unawares with my life, about a year ago, my parents started talking about a piece of property out in dallas to buy and to use at a retirement property. now, it wasn't just that they wanted to build a house there and retire there, no... my parents schemes are always much grander, at least at first that is. this house also had basically a temple component that at times also had a "religious retreat" component also attached to it. six months ago my parents started realizing this vision when they actually bought the piece of land in dallas... its actually quite bucolic and pastoral and now... with me at home, we are trying to actually "design" the house... so that when we do talk to an architect, we will have a better idea of what we want. but man is this a process of going back and forth. because on one hand, my parents haven't actually solidly decided on the scope of their project, the size of the house keeps fluctuating back and forth. going from two stories to one story, blah blah blah. also how many bedrooms should we allow on the temple side or where the living room is on the private side. how are they connected? how do we get light into the temple room that is in the middle? all sorts of crazy questions are being delt with. but i guess its also fun in its own strange way, since we are also doing a lot of field trips to model homes and taking lots of pictures. today we even went to the japanese garden at herman park to get inspiration for the landscaping. i guess all in all it is sort of fun, but my god... sometimes talking to my parents over square footage figures.... you just have to walk away a little. but i guess another way of looking at this is that its also a good training process for interacting with clients as well.... since i figure, if you can make your own parents happy.... anybody else should be a piece of cake. more to come about this interesting experience with the folks... just another way to get closer to them i guess. haha. let me see if i can get the little sketch we fought over scanned.
posted by faux chink @ 7:29 PM
1 Comments:
hey banana
what a name, and what a proper name for you.
all that design-with-family actually sounds like a wild-fun. enjoy while you can. and i am sure you will more than you ever imagined. (i guess though your parents are as "sophisticated" as you are. :)
well good luck withe the "pimp my parents' life style" project. will keep you posted.
-soohyun
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