Monday, February 7, 2011

Little House - Magpie 52

This is a writing prompt for Magpie Tales which is celebrating it's first anniversary. Click on the link to see the other entries.
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It's a perfect little house. I wish I could step inside. I can't see a busy family there. Maybe two ladies, a mother and a spinster daughter. It would be very quiet and tidy. I see a stiff little settee and a side chair. A flowered rug. A wooden rocker with a seat cushion and some needlework waiting in a basket. Lace curtains. A linen-covered table set for tea near the fireplace. A grandfather clock in the corner. A neat little kitchen with embroidered tea towels. An old fashioned bathroom with lavender soap and a clawfoot tub. A landing on the stairs where the peaked window looks out onto the street. At the top of the stairs, two small bedrooms with iron bedsteads and white sheets and fresh flowers on a writing desk or a chest of drawers. I wonder what they dream about behind the pretty front door.
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I had to come back to add the sleek white cat in the window sill and the daughter coming down the stairs in the morning in her old chenile robe and fluffy slippers to start the kettle for tea and stir up the fire. Church suppers, card games, choir practice and ordering plants for the garden in the spring. Visiting neices and nephews and an old piano. They are doing just fine in this little house.

16 comments:

  1. I love this! I don't think that this is a family house either. I love the embroidered tea towels and the fresh flowers on the writing desk! Too bad there is not a virtual tour of what your house here would look like, I would love to see it! Lovely post! :o)

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  2. I could see your description perfectly. :-)

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  3. You have beautifully described interiors ....the last question is what I am thinking now ...

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  4. Perfect set up for the little house. Great job. Nice previous post too. I did not get to do last week's.
    QMM

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  5. I didn't see a family living there, either. I very much enjoyed your description of the interior; very suitable for a mother and spinster daughter.

    Thanks for your visit to my post and your nice comment.

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  6. I know! I wanted to step inside too :) Beautiful post.

    I like your ending sentence - "I wonder what they dream about behind the pretty front door."

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  7. Really good descriptive piece,and looking to find people through their interiors, clues to who they are.

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  8. I love little houses like that, the dollhouse variety.

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  9. Now you need to write their dreams...

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  10. I want to go inside after your wonderful description! I wrote about being inside too...as if it was my own...writing about feelings instead...

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  11. This reminds me of the dollhouse I have. It was my mother's as a child and has many of the details you describe! Your description brought me back to happy times when I played with it as a child myself!

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  12. A beautiful picture! It feels so right.

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  13. Your words make me want to go inside the little house - it sounds delightful:-)

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  14. My family wouldn't fit in that little house, but your scene fits it perfectly!

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