Tales From the Box

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For many a year we have had to contend with an unsheltered entrance. While there is those of you who think that such a thing isn’t something you would especially prioritise in a dwelling, house or abode – I must say that it has been especially annoying when:

1. Off to work with thousands of dollars of equipment packed in bags and its raining
2. Coming home in the dark, too tired to think about getting your front door key out and its raining
3. Shopping in both hands, on the phone to the wife who is telling me that I have forgotten something (either the food or her), its dark and its raining
4. Off to a wedding in brand new suit, looking very suave (and might I say, extremely dapper), step outside and its raining

You can see the common theme. Yes – the rain (the wet stuff that occasionally falls from the sky) was a factor with the orignial version the house. The rain would fall and wash underneath the house. However since we are building underneath the house- that can’t be allowed happen anymore (although the going to sleep with the sounds of water trickling underneath the house is both disconcerting and calming at the same time) so hence a roof.

But the reason that we got the roof isn’t just for the rain. We face west – which means at the business end of a long, hot summers day, we cop the western sun straight through our 2400mm high windows, heating up the house like an oven. So finally – after all these long years, relief is at hand: a roof is over our front deck.

However the addition of the roof has taken away the percieved boxiness of the house. Jo (the wife) thinks that it looks very Australian (should that be ‘straylian…) and our resident architect thinks it adds very contemporary aussie look.

I just think it looks noice, unusual, different.