What item would you run to save in a fire?
What item are you planning to purchase next for your home?
Hi all,
I’m so glad you’re here, because sharing my “home” is my favorite thing to do, to talk and write about…. I could go on and on, but
today I wanted to write about the “decisions made” while choosing items for our homes.
Home, itself, is a topic that just pulls at your heart strings. Sentiment and practicality both coincide within our homes, and our decisions to buy or to keep is based on both of those factors.
Do you remember the day you moved into your house?
That first day, looking around, you felt that there were so many “empty corners, shelves and spaces”, how would you ever fill it, how could you grow into this house?
You did.
In time.
There are ways of choosing what you want to bring into your house to make it feel like “home”…first. you choose out of practical necessity, purchasing appliances needed, and making sure all mechanicals are in working order.
The mechanicals are the heartbeat of your home, if they aren’t working properly, you won’t be worried about what drapes to buy, or where to place your sofa.
One- million- and- one decisions and choices later, you’re on your way to a functioning home. I consider the “practicals and necessaries” to be the “choices” or decisions that operate our houses.
Next,
The “cherished” items that we bring into our houses, I feel, create our homes.
Cherished items, such as Grandma’s Sunday dishes, Dad’s ancient but still-working lawnmower and boxes of unlabeled photographs all connect us to loved ones and memories past. They add to our personal story, infact, they ARE our story, and our history. Added into our still-new-to-us house, they comfort us as we acquaint, adjust and grow into the “new”.
Remember when you were a child, clothes and shoes were always purchased too large, with your mother saying, “You’ll grow into it!” Mom was always right, wasn’t she?
In time, you will grow into your new surroundings, new neighborhood, as a couple, as a family, as life happens and time passes, those four walls will stop feeling so “new.” Creating memories and a new story of your own, this is how a house becomes a “home.”
It’s all about adding the old to the new.
Finding and developing your own kind of “cozy”.
Personally, I love the warmth of combining the old and new.
Don’t you?
Remember, your “home” is the sum of all decisions made...those choices created your own special sanctuary, your respite from the hurried world.
There is no house or no place quite like yours, sit back, relax and enjoy it…
it’s good to be home!
thanks for listening….
we’ll talk later,
xx,
