2. A Glass Conservatory for Slow Afternoons
If the cliffside cottage is about the view, this one is about the pause. The conservatory sits beside my main house, all glass panes and pale oak, with a shallow pond in the middle and lily pads drifting across it. I filled it with flowers from every biome I could reach — blue orchids, peonies, stubborn cacti in terracotta pots. On rainy days it is the best seat in the house: rain tapping on the glass, frogs somewhere below, everything smelling faintly of wet earth.