| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:08:42 PM | | So many of us seem to be on our own. Do you take the time to make your house is a home, a safe haven if you will. It seems to me, the older I get, the more important this becomes to me. I am curious how others feel. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:26:48 PM | | My house is definetly a home. It made me smile one day when a friend of my teenager told me how "homey' my house is. I didn't expect a teenage boy to even notice such a thing, much less comment on it. It's definetly my "safe haven" and my resting place..... | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:29:38 PM | | I don't look at my place as a home, too me it's just a temporary place I am stayin till I move again | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:37:08 PM | I designed all three of the houses I have owned. They all were ...... out of the norms. My last house went to a Chiefs football player .... my first wife got the money ..... humm.
The idea of this house came to mind - after I had left my first wife (16 years). It was to be a single guy’s “pad” - with his dog. I had just had the trees ripped out of the center of the lot when ............
I met my 2nd wife - it was home to four of us humoids and some pets for 17 years - then pOOf it was back to 1 person and a dog.
I built this place like a tank - in 1986. Today it is still a tank but could use some “spiffing up”. I also built an office onto the back of this house and have worked from it since about 1990.
This place is not “all that” but I think it is pretty cool. It is not much like “normal houses”. I built it to last me the rest of my life and ........ I have no big plans to leave it. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:40:17 PM | | I don't have a house. Home is where the heart is. Someday I will have a house and live there with some fool woman who couldn't do any better. That will be my home. For now I live in a hotel. It has a laundry room. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:43:16 PM | | My house is my safe haven but it can often be like grand central station too. I work from home so do spend a lot of time here. Most my friends tend to ring the doorbell and then just walk right on in without bothering to wait for me to come to the door. They treat my house as if it were their own and feel as comfortable here as they do in their own home. My house is nothing fancy, has a sort of lived in feel. People aren't afraid to relax, prop up their feet. Everyone feels as ease getting a beer or soda out of the fridge or pouring themselves a glass of wine. When I need time to myself, I close and lock the door and no one bothers me. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:49:45 PM | I try to make my house my home...I enjoy doing reno's, and putting my own touch on things....but then you have days like this.....
When your hot water tank blows and ruins all your hard work and effort and now have to leave the work to a restoration company..... 
Oh yea what was the question again....sigh
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 6:58:43 PM | | Very much so! It's not anything fancy or big, but it is very comfortable and filled with color and texture that I believe reflect my personality. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:02:00 PM | | No..I lost my home when I lost my husband, then moved to an apartment in town..never felt comfortable, moved into a house with my son..never felt comfortable, now live in another apartment. They won't let you put things on the walls like a regular home should be..so to me it's not a home, it doesn't feel homey at all. But one of these days I do plan on having my own home again with a big kitchen, big master bedroom and bathroom, and big living room with a fireplace..once again. Once I get my own house again...then I can call it home. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:04:29 PM | | I am slowly making my house a home. I think it's home now but there is always work here and there I see from time to time. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:14:18 PM | | My flat is not my home. Home is where the heart it and the world is my home. All I need is a bed, some clothes, a small fridge, a TV with satellite channels, and a PC with internet access. The older I get the more importance I attach to a austere place to sleep rather than a lucious one. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:42:42 PM | Is anyone else out there a pack rat and surround them selves with new found treasures. Then beg their friends to call the producers "Neat" to come by and help get things under control again?
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:45:41 PM | A house is just a house.
What makes a house a home is that it's lived in. It should be cozy, inviting, warm, comfortable and loving people dwell within.
I live in a home. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:46:19 PM | | To paraphrase the late Chris Farley, I live in a broken down van, down by the river. I call it home. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 7:54:09 PM | Every place I have lived I have turned into a homey place for while I was there. It is pretty easy for one of my current homes to be my safe haven cause only the dog makes it safe or unsafe. I work very hard to keep the sober home as a safe haven for me and the ladies in it. That is important to me, and for it to be a warm, inviting, homey place is part of it being a safe haven.
funny thing is I don't consider myself domesticated. That actually translates to I love having my precious possessions around me (Kids pictures, the wall unit I built, my favorite bed and couchs) and I love to cook. I just hate cleaning or having a "model" home type home. A small amount of clutter is a good thing in my book. The sober home is easy for cleaning. I just sign off their chores every day. hehehheee. Need a cleaner roommate. Yeppers. hehehe. Had one for awhile but she relapsed. sigh. need a new one. Maybe I'll add it to my profile. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 8:07:33 PM | Scheherrazade wins. Its not whats in it,
its WHO's in it, and how comfortable folks feel being there.
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 8:38:48 PM |
This thread moved to Off Topic - nothing to do with relationship forum
Please Post in the apropriate area.
Thank You
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 9:08:19 PM | I moved so many times that it is difficult to count... international moves, intercontinental, across the contry, across the street... I still have to spend a year without moving in this century That's why I have a very strong urge to make my place look like a home as fast as I can... Last move was two months ago, just couple of miles from my old place... We started at 11am, and by the evening of that same day my living room and dinning room were pretty much set up - no boxes whatsoever, the curtains were up up, dining room table covered with the tablecloth... Took me another day to hang up the paintings, and then it felt like a home.
These days I enter my home and it makes me smile. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/23/2007 9:33:29 PM | I've been in my itty-bitty house for 14 years, but Mom & Dad's house is still home (4 miles away). In about 11 short years I will own this shit-shack outright. . | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/24/2007 12:51:03 AM | My house is DEFINITELY a home....---Inside,its very warm,cozy & inviting,with lots of rugs,cushions,paintings,flowers,& candle-sticks,gorgeous vases,& pretty,decorative glassware everywhere........muted greens & burgundy in lounge & dining-room,& my bedroom is also very pretty--pale pink & cream,with lots of flowers & paintings & a lavender bathroom,which is quite luxurious......
I have a beautiful ivy growing over the front of my home....and,when i open the front door & step inside,im always glad to be there...i LOVE my home... | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/24/2007 5:16:20 AM | I have cat's lying in the walkways, a fish in a separate tank on my sink cause it's eating the other fishies tails. I have 'bionical' bits lying over the floor, a dog on her period and have given the whole 'display home' thing a miss.
I'm fighting a losing battle. | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/24/2007 5:26:57 AM |
It made me smile one day when a friend of my teenager told me how "homey' my house is.
i like this......i've noticed that most people when coming to my house for the first time never say "i like your house", or "your house is great"; its always "i love your home"
definately a distinction.
it's kind of funy when you think about it, as my home is a townhouse, structurally inside and out the same as all the other ones in the complex, nothing special, nothing really out of the ordinary except for the fact that it has become over the years the canvas of our lives.
it sure as hell wouldn't win any "house and home" awards though.......... | |
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| Is your house a home?
Posted: 11/24/2007 5:57:56 AM | | Yes: this is important to me. It looks a it of a wreck, work-in-progress renovation-wise and has since I moved in, but I have plans for it, that will happen over time, and like all the houses I've lived in, it has a nice atmosphere for me. I regard my home as my sanctuary and I have never been terribly keen on visitors and this feeling has intensified over the years. I always liked being alone in my home, it felt good and I have never been lonely being alone. I did not think that I would ever want to share my space at all and when my special someone moved over from Canada, the plan was that he would get his own place, but instead he stayed with me and I don't think home would feel like home without him any more. Home matters a lot to us both, we both prefer to be at home than anywhere else so it is essential that it has a comfortable atmosphere. | |
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