My family’s apartment from our early childhood was anything but modern. It was a tiny farmhouse built in the 1940s on a 200-acre stretch of land that our Grandfather earned many years later as an investment property. Part of the land was leased out to a hauling as well as gravel business. There were areas of the land rich in rock as well as it was mined considerably up to the early 1974s. A few years later, our parents, along with our older sibling, moved to the small apartment as well as called it apartment for the next 8 years. When I arrived, they had only been at the aged farmhouse for about a year as well as a half, but it felt care about all of us had been there for eternity in our young as well as undeveloped mind. Being able to explore so much land in your own backyard was an absolute dream for a young boy. But, inside the apartment wasn’t so great. I never complained about the thrift store furniture, or the 74s-era shag carpeting. What I hated more than anything was the poor ventilation in that home. For a few years, all of us used the fireplace as a sole source of heat because the gas furnace was inoperable. Once all of us had enough currency for a new one, all of us used both heat sources side by side. Unluckyly, the air duct was always leaky so much of the heat from the furnace was lost as a result. When it came to Summer weather, all of us only had a single window a/c for the entire house. Both of us l earned to position aged box fans in varying places throughout the house—mostly in doorways—to simulate the effect of a central ventilation system. It didn’t replace a regular apartment heating as well as cooling system with air registers as well as the like, but it improved what little all of us had at our disposal at the time.