to have a fantasy flat and life

[crochetmonkey74]

Browsing on Rightmove and Apartment Therapy and all I want now is a quirky tiny studio flat above a coffee shop that's cheap and I work in the coffee shop and have time to go and meet my friends for drinks and browses in old bookshops and I am carrying the perfect battered old leather satchel that is all floppy. I'm sure I wear a quirky hat at times too.

I'm a staggeringly successful, brilliant and quirkily beautiful barrister who only works on ethically sound human rights cases. My little well-located London flat is full of trailing plants in copper pots, and my twin Siamese cats welcome me home every evening before I drink perfectly crisp Chablis from glasses not bought in Ikea. I'm dating Tom Holland, but we're taking it slow as I don't want to commit just yet.

The cats never wee on my bed, and I'm definitely not in any way a rotund Mother of 3 from a dubious 60s new town.

Excellent thread!

I think we have the same husband, TirisfalPumpkin!

Love this thread 😃

I have a smallholding near the edge of a small city where I run a vegan farm shop and cafe. We are almost self sufficient for power and water and we have rescued a bunch of ex-commercial hens.

Reality: 3 bed semi, office job. I do have a vegetable patch!

OMG i really did think it was just me! I’ve just adopted 2 more kids after my cousins sad demise & ive taken over the Manor House in our village as it recently became vacant.

I would never buy a flat, but my fantasy life would be working on a cruise ship, and travelling the world (whilst getting paid for it.) I would be a backing singer though (for a main act,) and work 20-24 hours a week, and have 3 full days a week off. DH and my kids would obvs have to be with me! I would never leave them behind.

I write children’s novels and am either in a delightful summer house writing, or going out for lunch with my editor, or book signing. My summer house is in the Cotswolds with a beautiful and secluded cottage garden. I also have a small apartment in London and go to the theatre a lot.

My convertible sports car is parked just outside where luckily there are no parking restrictions.

Funny how we even have to daydream about the mundane stuff like parking. When the National Lottery started and we all thought we would win, I was getting quite stressed worrying about whether I'd have to work my notice before jetting off for the foreseeable future... And it's always a pleasant surprise to remember I can also daydream being slim

I’ve just adopted 2 more kids after my cousins sad demise

Ah yes, there are quite often orphaned babies involved.

I’m splitting my time between a 16th century Tuscan farmhouse that’s in easy distance of Florence, whilst convenient for the local medieval village for necessities and also a Georgian flat in central Edinburgh

Oh yes yes to the inheriting babies malarkey!

Me !!! Except it’s a converted van (specifically a Mercedes sprinter or fiat ducato) and I live in it by the south west coast and I work in cafes, bars etc in the summer and sell craft stuff in the winter lol.

I’ve thought about it ridiculous amount and follow lots of van dwellers on Instagram

My beautiful glass fronted home is on a stunning beach. With a deck covered in comfy sofas, chairs and gorgeous throws and an open fire. It never gets sandy or dusty though, thankfully. Inside it not too big but very comfortable and luxurious. I'm an artist, known for my abstracts of the beach, sea and skies.......I didn't choose to be well known so I'm quite low key in my everyday life but make a great living doing what I love at my own pace.
5 minutes walk away (with my lovely dogs) is a perfect village with arty shops, divine restaurants, independent coffee shops, delis, artisan bakers and everyone is so friendly.
My DH visits occasionally as do my perfectly happy, successful children.
We love to sip chilled champagne by the outside fire on an evening.
It's bliss...........

Purplepears that's my other home, so glad we agreed to do the property swap from time to time. I'm loving your little bolthole that I'm staying in.

I live in hotels with my DP, and four teenage girls who are charming, intelligent and ambitious. We have a few regular ones we love to go to, dividing our time between Mustique, London, Seattle and Namibia. The staff in each place are like family to us. I work on my children's books for a couple of hours a day and then we swim, play tennis, have intellectual discussions, nap in the afternoons, and dress up for dinner most nights, occasionally slobbing it with room service. We have a stately home in the English countryside that we pay someone to run as a lovely hotel and we stay there regularly, too. My eldest daughter is about to marry the son of the Mustique hotelier and have plenty of adorable grandbabies. We give obscene amounts of money to charity and visit the projects we support from time to time. Oh and we regularly take Nile cruises and we know the pyramids inside out.

This is my fantasy that I'm going to make reality soon
www.livingbiginatinyhouse.com/magical-gypsy-caravan/

I will be here in the beautiful spring, autumn and summer, siping my lovely drink, not sure which yet
Getting back to nature and walking bare foot in the grass.