“Bring
Home the Magic.” One of Disney's many marketing slogans. It's
usually used in conjunction with their home video productions, but
people also take the expression a little more literally and decorate
their houses with their favorite Disney characters and motifs. And
sometimes with their favorite Disney theme park motifs, which Disney
finally cottoned onto a few years ago, so now you can get official
Disneyland attraction housewares. If you had about a grand to spare
and a more advanced case of Disneyland-mania than even I have, you
could go to Le Bat en Rouge and outfit your entire dining room with
Haunted Mansion plates, placemats, drinking glass coasters, and even
candlesticks.*
But what if more were possible?
What if you had basically unlimited funds and no sense of restraint
whatsoever?
What if you could make your entire house into a mini-Disneyland of
sorts? If you could, in fact, Make the Magic Your Home?
My sister and I had more-or-less this conversation the other day,
fantasizing all kinds of what-if, and we came up with a rough plan
for a Disneyland House, if only such a thing could be achieved. And
then...I couldn't stop thinking about it. More and more details
suggested themselves to my mind. And since it would be out of
character for me to keep my thoughts to myself, I'm happy to share
them with you here.
Read on, dear...readers, yes...and dream with me.
