writing tip #3

Carpet.
My second last house (a flat) had beautiful messmate floors and a big window that trucked in beautiful light. The view was over the apartment block opposite, the mirror of ours. Looking out was a little Rear Window, in a downtown pre-renovated Northcote way (ie, full colour, 1960s square block, nothing pretty—and no one opened their curtains but us, so actually there was only a whole lot of imagining.) The floors and the window were lovely, but there was nowhere to get comfortable. It was a bad place for writing.
My last house has been renovated all in white paint and floorboards. It looked pretty, but was cold, echoey, with not a skerrick of carpet in sight. Too cold for creativity.
This new house has carpet. Lots of it. Carpet is warm and comfortable. Forget the baltic pine underneath. It's a great place for writing.