My Childhood Home Essay

Quincy, Mass is where my childhood home stands Homes are places that people can go to for warmth, memories and comfort. My childhood home resides or stands in Quincy, MA. The home is full of comfort for me and my family. My home is your typical Cape Code style. It’s gray in color with Maroon shutters. There is a 2 car attached garage. Flowers, bushes and other landscape surround the house. The front living room window is a large bay window that allows a lot of sunlight into the home when the curtains are open.

The large bay window allows you to see a lot of our neighborhood and people passing by as they are out for their daily stroll. Like all homes, my home contains a kitchen. The kitchen represents fond memories of my mom cooking large family dinners on Sundays and togetherness. One fond memory would be coming home from a ride around the neighborhood on my dirt bike and smelling the aroma of baking ham in the oven with a faint hint of freshly baked bread.

Our kitchen was small, with one light on the ceiling. My mom complained a lot over the years about that one light in our kitchen.

Describing My Room

I’m not sure why, but it was never replaced to add more lighting options. Still to this day, that one light attached to the ceiling exists. The floor was covered by ceramic tile in an off white color and the walls were painted in a chocolate milk type of color.

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Remember, this is the 1970’s/1980’s when home decor was terrible. A large fork and spoon hung on one of our chocolate milk colored walls, as it did in many homes back then. It took a lot of time and effort to beg and plead my mom to switch out that spoon and fork for some more modern type of decor.

Eventually she added some pictures that fit very well into the kitchen. Our kitchen held most of the memories of togetherness, but my room was my sanctuary. My room was upstairs along with 2 other rooms. I had the upstairs to myself since the other rooms were used as storage or for an occasional visitor. The walls in my room were a yellow in color with one wall covered in mock wood paneling. I hated that wall, I was not allowed to attach anything to it nor paint it, and I looked at it as a thorn in my side.

When I was young, I spent a lot of time in my room, drawing, painting, playing my guitar and sometimes just day dreaming. As I grew older, the yellow painted walls were lined with child star pictures from magazines such as River Phoenix and Rob Lowe. My bed was a queen size bed with lots of pillows. I had a blue, white and gray comforter with matching sheets. In my world, my bed was the greatest; it was one big security blanket. I spent many days and afternoons daydreaming on my bed, along with an occasional nap or two. I had 2 windows in my room. One window I kept open a lot.

I could hear and see my neighborhood street and watch for passing stray cats or even a raccoon or two. Many times I would lie on my bed and listen to the rain hitting the roof outside my window and I could smell that rain, that’s a great smell. Other nights I would fall asleep in my bed as a cool breeze flowed through my bedroom leaving the air a little crisp, but oh so comfortable. On winter days, I usually had the window closed, obvious reasons. I would lie on my bed drawing cartoon characters, listening to music, preferably Jimmy Hendrix’s or The Doors.

I should have been born in the 60’s or a hippie in another life. I often fell asleep, just from being so comfortable and at peace in my room. My childhood home didn’t have much of a backyard, it was small. We had a deck that included benches and enough room to grill out and have family and friends over. My mom had lots of flower pots lining the deck and in the summer the flowers were in full bloom and you could smell them throughout the yard and if the windows were open or the patio door, the scents of the flowers would fill our house.

On summer nights my friends and I would play basketball on our driveway. Some nights we would just sit around the yard and chat and make fun of each other. Laughing and joking around in the lush grass of our side yard and hoping my mom would bring us a snack. Sometimes we would even fall asleep in the 2 hammocks my dad had hung in our side yard. Swinging in the hammocks in the summer breeze listening to the quiet…..