A House Or A Home?
The first thing I do when I move house is make the new one my “home”. Yes, there is a difference, I am sure you all agree.
It is always amazing to me the many different ways a house can be decorated or put together. The same house can take on a totally different, and equally as beautiful or welcoming, feel. It depends on what the person dwelling in that house feels – how he or she will make it their home.
A house, to me, is a structure – walls and a roof, floors, ceilings, toilets, sinks and tubs, etc. etc. It is the color we put on the walls, what we do with the floors, the style of our furniture and how we put that all together that makes it our home. Home is heartfelt.
This week we are going to talk about several different ways of making a house your home and one of these ways is to have photographs around. Certainly, photographs tell stories and more often than not, pinpoint who lives in that certain house. Family photographs are a favorite of ours – we love to have them all over!
A great way to display your photographs is to put them out in groups. I have a table where I have photographs of our six children’s weddings, along with a photo of our own wedding. To me this is a very special table, representing love.
On another table, I have photographs of our ten grandchildren. Oh golly, how adorable they all are…..always so full of joy!
I have a friend who has a table where she puts the photographs she gets at Christmas. Each year she changes them out. I must say, that table is pretty full but a very fun way to keep all your loved ones, be they family or friends, in your thought.
Robin has a wonderful family collage on her stairway – such fun to peruse as one is going up and down the stairs.
One might have a generational table where you have all photographs of different generations of your family or a baby table or wall where you have your family’s baby photos displayed.
As you are thinking of these groupings, be sure to keep the frames similar. Now, by that, I do not mean that they all have to be silver or all have to be black or all the same design but there should be something that threads through them all. They may all have a touch of gold, more or less – all different designs but gold being the thing that unites them and makes them attractive to look at. They might all be from the same era design-wise. They might all be black with one of two being red, your accent color in the room. However you put them together, make sure they harmonize together. That will certainly draw the viewer in.
As we venture through this week, stay with us as we share some other ways to make a house your home, full of love, joy and abundant living!
Books — especially very old ones — help to make my house a home. Mine, like photographs, are remembrances of times past.
Not to mention books waiting to be read.
An à propos picture frames, I notice that I have gold ones on the piano, in the living room; plastic, on shelves in the kitchen; and wooden ones in the den.
It’s convenient to have pictures on the computer, but looking at them doesn’t feel the same as looking at photographs “in person”.
I suppose I’m very old-fashioned.
Books — especially very old ones — help to make my house a home. Mine, like photographs, are remembrances of times past.
Not to mention books waiting to be read.
And à propos picture frames, I notice that I have gold ones on the piano, in the living room; plastic, on shelves in the kitchen; and wooden ones in the den.
It’s convenient to have pictures on the computer, but looking at them doesn’t feel the same as looking at photographs “in person”.
I suppose I’m very old-fashioned.
I love this Laurie…the idea of books helping to make your house your home…I too love my books as old friends and the ones yet to be read as friends yet to be known. And if loving photos in picture frames makes you old fashioned, then you have company 🙂 –Robin
I can’t wait to read more on how to make a house (or apartment!) a home… I could certainly use some tips!!