several key items to an ideal living space:
1. flooring. to this day i still regret not changing my current floor. had i known i'd live here for at least three years, i would have insisted to change the flooring before i moved in. flooring is important.
2. views. and openings as big as possible. i still don't know to this day how people could manage to live without looking out of the window. even in my current place that is middle class subsidized housing, views from the windows and balcony doors are the very first thing i consider. find as much as city lights and greeneries as i could get. and the windows are the front of the house. most of my neighbors treat their openings/balconies as their back area, as storage / trash place. i just don't get it.
3. lighting. both natural and artificial. this one needs a way longer explanation. but good lighting sets the mood in a significant way.
4. proximity to amenities needed goes without saying.
that being said, when i came across the videos of peng wei, a chinese artist living in chengdu, not only her art that caught my attention but also her working/living space. there are a lot of pretty images of people's living spaces that i see daily, but her space certainly stood out. big windows, big floor space to create things, good lighting ambiance, good views, even her "messy" tables and shelves are something i could see myself in. only things missing are cats and their furnitures. and most important is that it looks attainable to me. like it's not something that is too far to reach. i mean it is far at least for now, but not exactly impossible. well, let's see if life allows me to have nicer things in the future.
pictures are screenshots from this video and this video.
