Tessa
Childhood Encapsulated Mustard yellow walls encase the room. Walls that make the room seem devastatingly hot in the summer and just right in the winter. The yellow walls are complemented by blue accents throughout the room. A blue bedspread sprinkled with multicoloured flowers, like a cartoon field coating the double bed. Windows surround the bed bathing it in natural light, the windows are trimmed by shear blue curtains all the same shade with different patterns. Curtains that on cool fall days billow softly in the wind. Beside the bed is a small window with a door, into my sister’s room beside mine. The door is often open so that we can engage in late night chats, but is closed when our sleep schedules don’t quite match up. Beside the bed is a white side table topped with a lamp holding a bulb in need of replacing. On this dresser is a stack of Archie comics a retainer and a handful of rocks with images of crudely painted marine life from summers past. …show more content…
An old wooden desk, a bursting wooden dresser that’s lost all its handles and a sparkling white bookshelf. The wooden desk is from my mothers university days. It is topped with papers from class and pencils strewn all over it. It is periodically cleaned but takes less than an hour to return to its normal state of disarray. Above the desk is a framed Tintin poster. Beside the desk is two floating shelves. On the first shelf is a container that had the well meaning intention of holding pencils, and serves that purpose on the rare occasion when the desk is cleared off. On the top shelf is a bulletin board strewn with birthday cards and photographs with friends. Beside the bulletin board is a tripod and a dog on a stand that spins round and round while haunting music plays. An item bought for about 5 dollars at a flea