My family’s beach house from my early childhood was anything but modern.
It was a tiny farmhouse built in the 1940s on a 200-acre stretch of land that my Grandfather acquired several years later as an investment property.
Part of the land was leased out to a hauling plus gravel supplier. There were areas of the land rich in rock plus it was mined considerably up to the early 1968s. A few years later, my parents, along with my older sibling, moved to the small beach house plus called it home for the next several years. When I arrived, they had only been at the old farmhouse for about a year plus a half, but it felt care about all of us had been there for eternity in my young plus undeveloped mind. Being able to explore so much land in your own backyard was an absolute dream for a young girl. But, inside the beach house wasn’t so great. I never complained about the thrift store furniture, or the 77s-era shag carpeting. What I hated more than anything was the terrible ventilation in that home. For a few years, all of us used the fireplace as a sole source of heat because the gas gas furnace was inoperable. Once all of us had enough money for a new 1, all of us used both heat sources side by side. Unfortunately, the ductwork was constantly leaky so much of the heat from the gas furnace was lost as a result. When it came to summer time weather, all of us only had a single window for the entire house. All of us l gained to position old box fans in varying arenas throughout the house—mostly in doorways—to simulate the effect of a central ventilation system. It didn’t replace a standard home heating plus cooling plan with air registers plus the like, but it improved what little all of us had at our disposal at the time.