Town these days is an awkward existence
It’s not like city, neither countryside
The house provides a reference
How a town house can be like
The house is located on the material market street in Changzhou
My family lived in a factory plant for 7 years
And we moved here just last year
In 2917
Our neighbor decided to renovate their house
And our house shared a wall with them
So they came to my parents
Talked them into renovating the house together
My father’s reaction was interesting
He took a piece of A4 paper
And said that “I had a sketch for the house”
“We are rebuilding the house according to this planning”
My father was one of the first private business owners in our town
I grew up in the plastic factory
I really am not a silver spoon kid, I’m more of a factory girl
Before I got up in the morning
I’d hear my parents discussing
Which machine shall we turn on today
I moved back to Changzhou from Shenzhen in 2009
Being the only child, I didn’t have much of a choice
And the factory was in a bad place then
We had merely 20 thousand in our account
The circuit breaker tripped as soon as the machine turned on
But I wasn’t gonna take failure as an answer
I told my father, I’d make 5 million the next year
And build them a house
That’s my idea of filial piety
My parents thought it should take about two to three hundred thousand
To build the house
While starting from the roughcast house
To the finial interior decoration, including garbage disposal
The total cost reached three million yuan
And it took two years
I found a designer
And asked to see the plan sooner
Cause if we didn’t
My father might have started with his sketch on the A4 paper
Bathroom not on the east
The eaves don’t overtop others
That’s all they asked for
And I conveyed their requirements to the designer
This is a vestibule with story
My father felt
That the thing stood in his way
He couldn’t get in directly
So he called a constructor, without telling anyone
And had the vestibule dismantled
We calmed him down
And restored the vestibule
And it was indeed practical
He finally accepted it
My parents would sit in the couch with their friends
A fully open atrium
They can see the view outside
Even the neighbors farming
Very nice interaction
When we picked out the furniture
We aimed for less and better
I wanted them to use nice stuff
Have good experience
A lot of furniture brands
Then I lifted the bar on the budget and got them all
Like this shell chair
My grandmother has a huge ass
This chair just screams her
It’s very solid and steady
And the back has landscapes on it
Like a wise Chinese old lady
We didn’t tell her the price
As long as it satisfies her needs
After all she is comfortable in this chair
There are four rooms on the second floor
And one storey up is the rooftop
They can hang out and air their quilt on the roof
While enjoying the views around
A small pond
An artificial mountain from my childhood broken down and remodeled
They can see the yard from the kitchen
See what each other is doing
This is meant to increase their interaction
It wasn’t this nice before
Air in the factory area had a funny smell
Home is definitely better
We moved in here before this Chinese New Year
We make desserts on this island
The family play poker games together
During the construction
Our gate was fully open
The neighbors were curious when they passed by
Like “what are they doing in there?”
The house actually influenced others
They can also have a house they like
Then the area, the whole town may get prettier