Feels Like Home

What does your ideal home look like?

For me, this question should really ask what my ideal home feels like. I’m currently in my ideal home, but it’s not quite visually ideal yet. My husband and I still have a lot of work to do on it. This is the house he and his sisters grew up in and so there is a lifetime of wear and tear to it. With our work schedules, we’ve been working on it a little at a time.

And while I would very much like to have everything finished…the fresh paint and new kitchen cabinets, etc., I am perfectly content with the feeling of living here. We don’t have neighbors attached to multiple sides of our house like we did in our old apartment. No need to keep the volume down on my music or tv if I want it loud. That feels like freedom.

We have a big fenced-in backyard where we can sit outside and let our dogs run free without a leash. That feels like convenience for us, but exhilaration for the dogs.

In our backyard, we also have a hose for watering our garden and other plants. A simple luxury, yes. But that’s also convenient. No more filling up a pitcher repeatedly to water the plants on our patio.

I could go on room by room on the inside of our house and how it feels—the dining room that we decorate for sharing special meals, the back bedroom that we use as an office/craft room, the living room where we spend most of our time… All of these rooms are part of the home that simply feels like home. And that’s important. I may not have been the one to grow up here, but because my husband did, it feels just as special to live here. It’s ideal because it’s ours. It has history. And a whole lot of love soaked into the walls.