My ideal room is one at the end of the house far away from the front door where it’s my personal space. Where it’s easy to slip in and out of avoiding guests to keep my mind on track but also has a door that is slightly noticeable when opened so my cat knows she can come in. It’ll be dimly-lit, but have a large window that I can open when I pull the curtains aside to get fresh air and natural lighting when I feel like it. Though I don’t like people looking over my shoulder, the desk will have to be against the back wall, a large long desk where I can stack my notebooks and have my mugs of stationary with a nice large lamp looming over it. There will be two monitors and a nice setup that can quickly go from ‘I’m trying to get some work done’ to ‘I’m trying to level up’. There will be a box of tissues on it and a bin filled with tissues beside it and spare boxes of tissues not too far from it. The drawers will be filled with pens and pencils and erasers and staples and memo pads and sticky notes and rulers and letter sets and my morning page notebooks and tape and my meds and scissors and all of those things you could want as part of your stationery set. I’ll have a book stand for my BB and planner and a small file holder for what I’m currently working on (because there are often a few things at once). There is definitely chocolate in the drawers as well. Probably in the bottom one where there’re more spare notebooks. Behind it will be a large corkboard scattered with my thoughts and wrought with reminders that I forget once I look away from them. The rest of the wall will be lined with bookshelves. The bookshelf on the left will hold the fiction on its left and the non-fiction on its write. The bookshelf on the right will hold all of my writing materials, with all of my notebooks and papers and manuscripts and files and folders and sketchbooks and writing textbooks. In one of the back corners will be a break station, with a comfy chair, a small table with a basket of sweets on it and the book I’m currently reading. It’ll also have a little hallway table nearby with a kettle, my tea bag box, a jar of sugar, a mug or two with something novel on them (not counting the Sailor Moon one on my desk) and a small bar fridge or cooler underneath it where I keep my milk and colder snacks. There will a nice soft blanket on the chair I’ll use to snuggle into during the colder months and next to it will be a cat box that she’ll probably never use but will walk in and out of every now and then. In the other corner will be my hobby workbench, where it’s a mess every now and then and orderly every time I think of starting a new project. There will be an array of different sized containers housing my cardboard, my e.v.a foam, my pop sticks, my paints, my wood, my wool and unfinished projects. On top of it will be a drawing lamp, a cutting board, one or two art desk sorters that hold glue gun sticks, paintbrushes, stanley knives, scissors and pencils. There will be four different types of glue and I’ll have two or three of each. There will be more rulers than I need and cups of water with coloured rings in them from the last project. There will also be a corkboard behind it littered with the pattern designs for my projects and drawings and paintings that I wasn’t too ashamed to pin-up. The fruits of my creative labours will also be displayed on shelving above it and on more shelving beside it will be displays of all of my collectables. All of the furniture will match and the colours will blend (but I like so many styles and colours that it probably won’t). The furniture will all be wooden and the chair in the corner will be good for lounging in. I will have wooden floors because, though I would have to wear socks and slippers in the colder months, they’re nicer to look at for longer and easier to maintain in a room where I use sanders on foam and shed. I will have wooden panelled walls too, although I can easily imagine navy walls or even lilac. There will be a dark rug in the middle of the room, something navy or violet with an interesting design remnant of my beliefs. The curtains will match it, and they will block out the sun completely when I need them to. The door will have a lock on it so I can shut myself in but also have a corner that can be unlocked and lifted back so my cat can come in whenever. I’ll have a couple of coats and jackets lying around and definitely clothes from where I’ve changed into my pyjamas. On the walls, I’ll have paintings I find beautiful and framed photos of my siblings, my partner and my cat. There will also be the maps I’ve created for my novels that won’t fit on the corkboard above my desk. Somewhere by my desk is that framed note-page I have that an author wrote for me when I was in year twelve. In a lot of the gaps, there will be plants, little terrariums of succulents and maybe the occasional flower if it doesn’t mind my room. The remainder of the gaps will hold my important trinkets. Often the smell of candles and incense will fill it and there might be potpourri on one of the shelves. Sometimes it will smell like toast and sometimes it will smell like ramen. Sometimes it will be light and sometimes it will be dark because it will depend on my mood at the time.

And that’s the kind of room I would like.