Our family is a wide space lover. We've lived in five different houses and all of them were chosen based on one aspect - it needs to have a wide space, in and out of the house. A garden must always be present because gardening and talking to her plants' the only thing our grandmother love to do.
So for each of the houses we owned, all of them either have a balcony, observatory, lanai, veranda, and if possible, glass walls.
I especially love our house with a glass walled second floor. A duplex, with an observatory on the roof, is my ideal house since it is located in one of the highest points in the country. I just love waking up in the morning with the light of the sun going through the glass walls and through the curtains.
It is not a modern house as most of you will envision. As a matter of fact, it was designed decades ago by our great grandfather who happened to be a carpenter, not an architect. It has been renovated a lot of times and now the old brick walls were changed to glasses.
Even the furnishings were changed. From wooded tables to glasses, from antique cabinets to steel frames, traditional doorknobs to laser door sensors, and from door peep holes to CCTVs.
My grandfather once said, it's better to live in the middle of the field that when you go outside, your sight won't bump into walls than living in a beautiful house, with stone walls and corners that will make you feel you're in a jail cage.
