We interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast for a quick patio progress report: the wallet-draining patio supplies (mentioned here) have arrived. And now we kind of get why they were so expensive. They’re bigger than our car, it took a giant truck to haul them, they weigh over 19,000 pounds (that’s not a typo or an estimation, it’s on our itemized delivery ticket) and they completely monopolize the carport. John’s out there working away today (T minus one week until Clara’s big par-tay) so I thought I’d slip in this sneak peek of the craziness that is the current patio project. More details soon.
But now back to the whole question of “Home Sweet Home?”
Anyway, the first few weeks of living in our house didn’t feel like it was our house. It didn’t necessarily feel like the previous owners’ house either. But it just didn’t really feel like ours. Call it House Limbo if you will.
Even after moving in every last box and setting up Clara’s crib and sleeping in our new bedroom for thirty-ish days in a row it still felt kind of like we were living here but not exactly “home.” Then we painted the master bedroom (the first room besides Clara’s that we tackled) and somehow something shifted and it felt a little more like ours.
Maybe it just took a few of those bigger “alterations” (like changing the wall color) to help it sink in that it’s really our house and we can do whatever we want to it.
I remember how novel that concept was back when we moved into our first house. The whole “wait there’s no landlord to tell me I can’t paint or hang curtain rods?” thing. It took a while for us to fully grasp the concept of home ownership. And it was surprising to have those feelings again with our second house. It wasn’t like we were expecting someone to come in and tell us we couldn’t switch out the light fixtures or knock out the wall between the kitchen and the future dining room, we just sort of felt like we were playing house. Courting the place but not married to it yet, you know? We were in that “seeing where the whole relationship would go” phase. Haha. But lying in bed at night after painting our bedroom we both talked for hours about how it finally started to feel like ours.
And that’s sort of a huge concept – the whole “this house feels like our home” thing. So something so large and hard to grasp must need to happen slowly in stages. Because we only recently reached another “deeper” level of the whole “it really does feel like home” journey. What triggered that feeling? The personalized frame gallery that we made in the hallway…
… and the fact that we finally had a real working dresser and an organized closet.
They both really were game changers, as lame as that sounds. I can’t believe we waited so long to add something personal to the walls (the hallway gallery took us over three months to start and over a month to finish). And to create an actual sock and underwear drawer for myself after months of living with crazy piles of clothing on the floor of the closet was definitely a huge relief. I guess we felt more like ourselves with the sentimental stuff hanging up and the unmentionables tucked away. Like we were getting back to ourselves and the real way that we like to live – as opposed to feeling like we were on vacation with nothing on the walls that was really ours (and piles of clothes on the floor “temporarily”).
And of course it always feels the most like our house when we have people over. Because they show up and it just feels cozy and full. Even if we just order pizza…
…or lounge in the living room.
We’re actually anticipating another level of the whole “this really is our house” feeling when we finally complete the patio. I guess just the idea of creating an outdoor zone that no one before us has ever hung out on feels especially unique and ours-ish. Here’s an up to the moment shot of John’s progress so far out there:
Have you guys noticed that it takes a while to really feel at home in a new house too? Or did you move right in and feel amazing and call it “home” right away? It’s funny because it didn’t not feel amazing to us. At all. We were floating. Every night for the first month we marveled at the house and were so happy that it was ours (in fact we still do that at least twice a week). But it’s just kind of weird how certain things have to take place to feel settled in a new space. What did it for you guys? Was it cooking your first big meal in your new kitchen? Or painting every last room and piece of trim for a totally fresh canvas? It’s weird how such mundane (or major) things can totally change how you feel about your four walls.
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Psssttt- Have you heard that Mariah Carey named her son Morrocan after “an interior decoratoring theme of a floor of their apartment”? Do you have any feelings about that? And furthermore, should we name our next baby Quatrefoil after our favorite mirror shape? Quatrefoil Petersik does have a nice ring to it…
Bethany says
We moved into our new home about 10 months ago, but I’m still not feeling quite at home. I guess it’s because everything is painted beige and is very “builder-basic” since the previous owners were obviously not the DIY type. But it’s getting there, we added some new light fixtures, just got some new faucets installed, we painted a chalkboard wall, I hung a gallery wall and we started adding a deck last weekend, so every little bit helps. I still need more curtains. I think curtains add a lot of personality and warmth to rooms.
Ashley says
This is a very interesting topic, the whole, “when is your house a home?” I just ‘moved’ this weekend to a new apartment. I have moved in quotes because I simply dragged my stuff down the hall in the same bldg from a 3 bedroom(that I shared with 2 girlfriends) to a 1 bedroom(by myself) so ‘moved’ doesn’t feel like the right word…maybe a little too dramatic for me in this case. Anyways, my stuff is still in boxes all over the place, very little is in it’s final resting place but somehow I already feel much more at home in just a week than I did in my previous place that I spent nearly 2 years in. It must have something do to with being surrounded by only MY stuff, having dreamed about where everything would go for weeks(drawing it up in CAD, I’m an architect) and maybe just a little to do with carelessly walking around in my underwear whenever I want. ;)
Tamisha says
I lived in our old house for 10 years. P lived in it for 15 years, so we had a lot invested in it. We’ve owned this one for almost 2 years (July) and it has taken me a very long time to come to feel like Home. Part of that is that it is still a construction zone and we are still in the middle of renovations. Because it’s old and was neglected for so very long, we are still playing catch up. It doesn’t have the ease of care the old house did. We used to pick projects based on our desires. Now, we pick projects based on urgency and ugly (what offends me most gets tackled first). I think part of the reason is took so long to feel like home is that rooms are so incomplete. Only the living room and dining room have been painted. This house is so overwhelming in the amount of work it needs, that nothing (so far) has been “done done.” Everything is “done, but…”
Sugar Cookie says
My husband and I built our first home, so in a way, it felt like ours from the beginning. We picked out the carpet, tile, appliances, hardware, etc. We visited it regularly to update ourselves on the progress and take pictures. But it still felt “weird” when we moved in. We’ve been there almost five months now and it’s starting to feel more like our place. We have a few things hung on the wall and regularly have church friends over for meals, so that helps. But it may just take some more time, and we’re okay with that too :)
Emily says
We closed on our house last July and moved in right away and I am still getting used to this house is ours. We lived in an apartment previously where we couldn’t really personalize it and before that I only had a room at my parents with decorating freedom. I have already re-painted 2 rooms (which were the very first rooms I painted) and after that I decided to take it slow and get to know what I really wanted to do. We are not anywhere close to having our home completed but everything little thing we do feels really good because we know its 100% us. Even though we have no kitchen right now I already love it because we designed it to our needs. So maybe in 2 years it will finally feel like us!!
PS lovee your outdoor posts. Next on our list is a cobblestone patio out back and I was weary to DIY but you have definately given me inspiration.
Emma says
Good luck with the stone patio. You guys are totally earning your DIY stripes now. You’ll be 3 star generals after that – wow! We’ve been in our first home for 6 months and I find that the “this is our home” feeling is coming along slowly but surely. The more renovations we do and projects we accomplish, the more we feel at home. Leaving boxes unpacked and junk rooms really slows things down though (and sadly, I have a junk/unpacked/catch all guest room at the moment). All the best with your patio!
Carrye says
My husband and I moved into our 2 bd/1bth brick house a year and a half ago. We finally bit the bullet and decided to do the addition we had in mind when we bought the place. We started the process in January and just started construction this week. We pretty much had to pack everything into one room and cover everything else, so it felt like moving all over again. We’re staying with a friend for the 3 months it will likely take to complete. I’m looking forward to moving back in because while only part of the house will be new (adding a bed, bath, and family room), it will be a clean slate for the most part because we’ll have to re-paint and move things around to work with the new floorplan. After investing in this addition (both financially and emotionally!) I’m looking forward to calling this place home for a while!
Karen says
When I read what they named their son, my first thought was “poor kid” LOL
btw…. are those giant stones I see in those bags? If so… that’s going to look cool.
The house I live in now is the first home I’ve purchased. I got to pick out all the finishes when it was being built, and my family is the only one to ever live there. I think that’s given me a sense of feeling of being “home” almost from the beginning. Plus… I tend to look around at pictures, knick knacks, etc that are throughout my house and I can remember where I bought it or who gave it to me. That connection with my house is another thing that makes me feel content and sentimental about my house.
YoungHouseLove says
There are some bags of gravel (which gets spread out under a layer of sand which the pavers then sit on). Ahhhh I can’t wait until it’s done!
xo,
s
kelly says
a) Sweet Lincoln’s mullet! I love Anchorman, and I love…lamp.
b) When we bought our house, we planned it so that we had a nice–6 weeks–overlap between our apartment lease ending and our first mortgage payment (Well played, if I do say so myself) so that we could tackle a few of the bigger projects and some of the initial painting before we moved in. To that end, for the first two weeks, Hubs and I blared the Juno soundtrack on repeat while tearing out wallpaper (3 lovely layers) in the kitchen, for the first 2 weeks. (to this day any time we hear songs from Juno, we get sentimental warm fuzzies.
c) Despite all the work we’ve initially put into our house and added work that we’ve done… Two years later, the Hubs and I are still ALWAYS amazed every time we drive up to our house because it is ours. I don’t know that that feeling will EVER go away (and I’m okay with that. I figure that means that I don’t take it for granted!
PS: Are you done yet? Because I’m dying to see how the outdoor space turns out.
Lauren G. says
It seemed FOREVER before I felt like I was living in OUR house, and not someone else’s. When we moved in, our dining room was an awful peach with really dated (yet I’m sure very costly) drapes and window treatments. It was hideous. It pained me to take them down, because I knew they had to be reaallllyyyy expensive, but they ended up making a great “stage” for our boys’ musical performances in the basement (I really do feel guilty and hope the previous owner never finds out about this!) I think our house finally felt like home when we were actually able to have furniture in each room (we moved from a tiny apartment to a 4 bedroom house). But what really was a bonding moment for me and our house was decorating a room that would be our new baby’s domain. Coming from an apartment, we were never able to really “decorate” the way I wanted to for our older boys (and our second boy’s room was a walk in closet that we converted to a “nursery” with a wooden port-a-crib, the only crib that would fit). This was the home where we completed our family, and then, I was finally head over heels in love with it… Glad to know this is “normal.” Thanks for sharing! Love your blog.
Jessica says
Did anyone else feel like Mariah Carey was prego FOREVER??? I swear she kept those babies in there for an eon….lol
Gigi says
It took me a few years to really feel at home in my house. I moved a lot as a child and never really had that attachment. But that was 23 years ago and since then my house has become such a big part of me that I can’t imagine every leaving it.
Valerie says
My husband and I just bought our first home in the fall and still have not really set-up or settled in. The biggest obstacle is not having any money AND not having any time (hubby just started law school and I’m working 2 jobs to make ends meet!). I can deal with no money (born DIY’er) – but having no time is the real kicker. I love reading your blog to remind myself that it CAN be done!
Also – I second Behr Petersik. :)
Sarah says
I moved so often in college that it got to a point where I NEVER felt at home… It seemed like right when I finally got settled in I was already looking for the next place to live. Post college and 8 months into my first house with my husband (although rented not owned) I finally feel like its home, especially since instead of looking onto the next place already we keep adding and tweaking things here. *ahhhh relief*
MS says
Yes, it definitely took us forever to feel at home in our house. 1.5 years later, we’re still getting there. I finally feel like I “know” it, which doors stick, what needs work next, which light switch goes to what light. Not sure it totally feels like my sanctuary yet, which is what I’m aiming for…time will tell!
Stefanie says
Monroe I think could be kind of cute but Morrocan really got me. Picture it “Hi, nice to meet you. I’m Morrocan.” Yeah..okay buddy but what’s your name?!
I have to be honest..I was mostly disappointed that neither name included any of the following: Lamb, Rainbow, Glitter, Butterfly, Precious, Honey, or Charmbracelet.
My friend was betting on Monarch and Chrysalis. I was secretly hoping she was right.
YoungHouseLove says
Oh my gosh a Mariah Carey baby name pool. That sounds hilarious.
xo,
s
Jessica says
HA!!! Charmblacelet would have been classic….
Brita says
I am dying in my cube over Charmbracelet Carey-Cannon.
YoungHouseLove says
Seriously, that’s the celebrity baby name of the year.
xo,
s
Lindsey Kennedy says
When we bought our first house, we bought it on a whim because it was in the neighborhood we wanted to be in and the houses sold quickly (back then). Once we moved in, there were more than a few things that we HATED about the house. Before moving in that house, I had lived in the same house for 21 years. It just never felt like home.
We ended up building a house after just two years in the other one. It felt like home from the day the foundation was layed (laid?). We are still there four years later and although I think of things I’d like to change every day, I can’t imagine living anywhere else!! So many great memories here!
Loi says
I didn’t name a little one “quatrefoil” – but I did tattoo one on my body! A place very dear to my heart has huge quatrefoil windows. Having the outline of one on my inner-wrist seemed like a nice reminder of that place and the people I’ve spent time with there. I feel in love with your mirror immediately, but didn’t make the connection right away- the window, and my tattoo, look as if your mirror is turned on it’s side such that the round part make the corners, not the right angle parts. Thought you’d be amused to know that your mirror shape is permanently inked on me haha
YoungHouseLove says
That sounds like the most understated and lovely tattoo I’ve ever heard of. Adore.
xo,
s
Karen says
Love how the sand was delivered, I’ve never seen it that way before.
Blaine says
Heck, I AM an anchorman, and read questions like that :-)
YoungHouseLove says
Wow! An anchorman reads our blog? We’re chuffed.
xo,
s
Katie says
I moved into a home my husband already owned when we got married. It took a while for it to feel like home but it finally did when we started painting and making bigger changes. Now we’re expecting a baby and filling the home with things in anticipation of her is really making it feel like it’s “ours”. I guess the big changes make a big difference for me!
Katie says
I love this post SO much. Erik and I are moving into a duplex on Monday. The landlords are friends and we’ve been given free range to paint and hang curtain rods as we please. I couldn’t be more excited. The furniture collection we’re taking with us seriously consists of two couches and a tv. I have no doubt we’ll be starting with a matress on the floor and piles of laundry in the closet. We’re so excited to have something that’s “ours”! I know it will take so much transforming, but I’m excited for the process. I can’t wait for it to feel like home.
Stephanie says
Oh man! I am so glad I’m not the only one!!! I always think of that Ron Burgundy scene in Anchorman. I always reference it, but I don’t think anyone else gets it. hahahahaha, awesome!
I’m Ron Burgundy???
YoungHouseLove says
Sweet! There are two of us!
xo,
s
Kymberly says
home birth did it for me.
Quin says
Moroccan Cannon is a very catchy title. I don’t really like Moroccan as a male name. He will be stigmatized as a “celebrity” kid just because of Moroccan. It is also a high chance that he will be teased by every kid in the class. I understand by choosing the names of Monroe and Moroccan seem cute for twins but Nick should have said hey maybe would should look at some other “M” names. Names are just getting crazier with each decade of newborns.
CandiL says
Off topic…I love the grey in your living room area…just wondering what color that is…went back a couple months and couldn’t find it…getting ready to move to my first house and LOVE that color for my living/dining room area!!
YoungHouseLove says
It’s Moonshine by Benjamin Moore color matched to Olympic no-VOC paint. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
Carey H says
1: I can’t wait to see your finished patio!
2: I LOVE LOVE LOVE that you made an Anchorman reference! On that note, you should name your next child Baxter!! Baxter Petersik. I like it!
3: Have a wonderful Mother’s Day!
C:
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, I like it. Probably because it sounds like Dexter.
xo,
s
Rebecca @ the lil house that could says
I am so happy this Dexter reference caught my eye. Oh how I miss him, but whenever I hear his voice in that car commercial it helps me cope…
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, me too!!!
xo,
s
Amy says
I’m thinking, since you were still in your first house when she was born, that Clara is lucky she wasn’t dubbed Lightandairy Petersik.
YoungHouseLove says
Seriously. Or High&Wide Petersik.
xo,
s
Nette @ This Dusty House says
I’ve been a little transient for the past couple years, living in student houses that never truly feel like home. Since getting married last year (t-2 days to our first year anniversary!) we lived in one place and tried to settle, but we were almost immediately looking forward to our very own place and getting out of the rental system. I think that meant we never truly settled into our first home.
Now, this place… we’ve been doing so much work to it, there’s no way it could feel like anything other than ours. But does it feel like home yet? Nope. Too disorganized. Besides, I think I need to fix my sense of ‘home’ after not really having one for years!
Thanks for posting this! It was thought provoking. And I love the shot of Clara looking at the camera over John’s shoulder in the dining room! Imperfectly blurry, perhaps, but that’s life!
KathyG says
WOW that’s a lot of patio…you must be starting to feel what it’s going to look like, yes? That’s the best time in a project, I think, when you can start to see in reality what you’ve been seeing in your mind. Good Work!
I don’t have kids, but we are big baseball fans, so all dogs and cats are named after baseball players…sometimes famous, sometimes not. Benito Santiago, Reggie Jackson, Albie Lopez, Candy Maldanado.
Jen @ The Decor Scene says
We are still in our first home, well actually are very long term home, maybe forever home. We have owned our home for almost 4 years now. We are almost there for it to completely feel like home to us. We literally had a blank wall in every room to start with {they were all white walls and white trim}, so we could do whatever we wanted. Warming up the walls inside was top on our list. Then about 1 year ago we started to make our outdoor space our own. Now it feels like “our” home. We still have more projects to finish, but it’s ours now. Took about 3 years to feel that way completely though. So you are not alone with the way you are feeling.
Christie says
I’m definitely in agreement with the whole “this is REALLY our home” sentiment. My husband and I have lived in our home for almost 3 years and the first two years definitely didn’t feel like the house was “us”. Now, with each room we paint, frame we hang and fixture we change it feels like our home and not just a house. I often sit in our main room and marvel at the thought that it is ours. :-)
As far as the names, I think I am most bothered by Mariah naming him Moroccan as opposed to Morocco. I think I would have liked that better.
Oh, my vote for your next child is Karl for a boy, a tribute to your IKEA stud of a sectional, or Sue for a girl, after your home theme spawning napkin. :-)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, Karl and Sue. They are “real” names! I’ve always liked Clark but John thinks Clark Petersik is too “K heavy” – so he might not go for Karl. Haha.
xo,
s
Amanda Wells says
I totally understand. We are moving soon and I just feel like we are really at home in our current house (four years later). Mariah Carey is crazy, I tell ya. Crazy.
http://www.amandadovewells.com/?p=390
Monica F says
We have been living in our house for 2.5 years and it still doesn’t feel like ours. It was previously a rent house and it definitely shows the “renter’s neglect”. We’ve had lots of flooding here in Arkansas and unfortunately (Or fortunately?) our house sustained some damage, which means all new flooring in both bedrooms, hall, and living room. We had planned on replacing it anyways, but just not this soon. I guess it will end up being a good thing because we will have all new flooring and so now I am finally ready to fill all the nail holes, etc. and get the walls painted. Hopefully it will finally feel like ours and not a rental anymore.
Lara says
With all three of our kids, we joked about outlandish names to use. One I frequently threw out there was “Chesapeake”. It’s a regional name close to our home and it sounds great with our last name. Of course, my husband shot it down & we went with nice, normal names…buuut…secretly I really liked it:)
YoungHouseLove says
I think it’s cute! I’ve always loved the name Paterson for a girl. But sadly Paterson Petersik is a terrible combination!
xo,
s
Ann says
I really know what you mean.
We now live 4 1/2 years in our apartment, but it took me almost 3 years to feel at home. The first time I noticed that this was really home was when my wife was out of town and I was all alone and I could, for the first time, sit on the couch without having the TV on. (somehow the TV makes everything less scary…)
Nancy says
Think of all the children that would be named “Cottage.”
YoungHouseLove says
Haha and Shabby Chic!
xo,
s
Lia {sprightly} says
We are in the middle of house hunting right now and I keep wondering how long it will take a new place to feel like home. I know that having boxes and piles of clothes on the floor will totally stress me out, and it will be weird being in a new place, not being as familiar with the neighborhood, etc. I do feel like once you start decorating with personal/sentimental things, it will start to feel more like home.
Danielle C says
My husband and I had to move out of the house we own and into a rental house when I got a new job. I have never had a problem making the rental houses feel like mine. Maybe I feel too comfortable in them. A couple of times we have done improvements without asking our landlords. Luckily they liked what we did and it wasn’t an issue.
It was very hard to move out of our house, especially after we did so many home improvements. My husband did the last one (the one I was looking forward to the most) after I had already moved away for my new job. The new bathroom looks great in the house and I never got to use it. Waaa!
Carolyn says
It definitely took a while for our house to feel like home. First on my list of feels-like-home necessities is a shower. Our house was definitely a fixer-upper and didn’t even have a shower! So after a month of showering at the gym while we tackled that project, finally showering in our own house felt like a luxury and definitely gave us the “wow, we are finally home” feel.
It didn’t help that a few days after we moved in we were off to an out-of-town wedding and a trip across country to visit my parents (I’m a Jersey Girl too!). So just getting our clothes in the closet and dishes in the cupboards took a while.
Thanks for this post. It’s fun to think about all the little (and big) things that make a house a home. : )
Victoria says
Before we even started looking at houses to buy I had a dream about our cats peering around a banister and looking down at us from up high. Like most dreams I promptly forgot about it, until after living in our two story townhouse for about a month. One day my hubby and i were in the living room talking about all the things we hoped to do to the house when suddenly the cats came bounding down the stairs, only to stop at the end of the half wall and stick their heads through the banister. They looked at us and were all “hey guys did you know this upstairs thing is pretty cool” (we had lived in a tiny 400sq ft apartment previously!) It was exactly that moment when my dream came back to me, and I new we were definitely *home*.
Ashley says
I cannot wait for this feeling. We bought a farmhouse at a foreclosure auction LAST MAY and still haven’t moved in. We’ve slept over, done some work, and gotten quotes, but the whole thing’s been pretty stressful. Sometimes we “camp out” there. Really, air mattresses are involved. But it’s not ideal for life with an exploring one-year-old. Plus, I use cloth diapers and we don’t have a washer at the farmhouse. Add to that the stress of my husband losing his job an our attempt to pursue self-employement and you’ve got yourself one big ball of nerves. I get a hint of it feeling a little like home when we sleep there for more than one night, but I’m so ready for the real thing. -Ash (p.s. todd might have told you he came out a few weeks ago to scout for a shoot…)
YoungHouseLove says
No way- that’s so exciting! Todd is the best photog we know, so hopefully you get to work with him!
xo,
s
Ashley says
Alas, we got rained out twice and bridal fashion waits for no one. Maybe next time!
YoungHouseLove says
Next time for sure!
xo,
s
Holly says
Thank you for this post – I’m moving in my first house this weekend and it’s weird how I thought as a new home owner I should feel one way, but how it’s really shifting back and forth from “this is ours” versus “this is unreal” to “omg we need to buy furniture!” Perfect timing for the post!
Andrea says
Actually, I have to thank you for my feeling that my home is my home now. When we first bought our condo, we didn’t expect to stay long. Three years later, and I really didn’t like our place. I started reading your blog, and I realized I had never really made it my own. I started putting work into making it what I want, and it feels much more like a home to me now. It will never be our forever house (it’s a condo in the wrong neighborhood for us now that we have a kid), but at least it feels like ours.
As for Mariah’s comments. My first thought was “named after a FLOOR of their apartment? They have multiple floors? Yeah, I can’t relate to that.” And my second, more snarky thought was “Your child is named after a country, not just a decoration style, Mariah,” but that’s the not-so-nice part of me I usually keep quiet!
andrea says
Oh man I was sitting here in my new house wondering when it’s going to actually feel like mine (well, and my husbands..). We actually moved into my grandmother’s house and I think that makes it worse (duh). Its like im visiting granny. Hope it starts to feel like ours soon, glad you are getting there with your home too!
Ruth says
Oy — the difficulty of being a renter who moves once a year (so far, at least, like clockwork). I feel like I’ve just started to feel comfortable enough in an apartment to understand things like the decorating scheme that I want for a particular room before I have to pack everything up and try again with a new place. Here’s hoping my nomadic lifestyle changes at some point!
The one upside of frequent moves is that I get to see what it’s like to live in a variety of slightly different houses and set-ups. It’s been fun to watch how liberated you guys feel to mix things up in house #2!
Lastly, I feel like it’s fine to name your kid Moroccan if that’s what you want to name it, but it’s a little painful to admit that to you, “Moroccan” is a floor decorating style. It reminds me of the Bill & Ted movie quote where the history teacher says sarcastically, “And Caesar was a salad dressing dude.”
Lane says
We just closed on our first house a month ago and are planning to move in this weekend. I don’t think it will set in that it is really our house for a LONG time. We have already painted a few rooms and started tackling some small projects, but until my bathroom is no longer aqua I don’t think I will believe it is actually my house. Can’t wait to see how the patio turns out we hope to put one in this summer.
Laur says
I hate to admit it, but I’ve lived in my house for 2 and a half years and it still doesn’t feel 100% mine. . . I like to blame it on endless construction, but I can’t wait for the moment when I have the I’m home feeling.
Melissa says
My fiance and I moved into our very first home on Easter weekend. I’m definitely feeling like it isn’t ours yet. I’m thinking once we paint everything and assemble our giant Ikea order, it will feel like home..
Yulia says
When I moved out of my parents house I distinctly remember standing at the kitchen sink and washing some dishes with a brand new kitchen sponge and thinking “Wow, this is my own kitchen sponge!” Seems silly now, but back then it seemed amazing that such a simple kitchen item wasn’t my parents’ anymore, it was mine.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, what a cute memory.
xo,
s