(the view from my front door)
It got me thinking. It got me thinking because often I feel like my home isn't so great too. I get embarrassed by it. I get embarrassed to say that I live in a shed (sorry, shouse) and sometimes, well pretty much all times I don't invite people over because of it. Me who cares not what others think, cares what others think about my home.
I thought about it quite a bit when I heard this little titbit of gossip and I thought about what makes a home great. Is it granite benchtops, a rumpus room (which usually don't see much rumpusing) and a massive bathroom sink or is it memories and laughter and the occasional cobweb in the toilet?
One day, when our house is finished, will I look up here at our old shouse and miss it just a little? Probably not so much but what I do know is that this little shouse of ours is more of a shome than I realised.
What do you think? What makes your house a home?
Look at the lovely view you have though! Living amongst all those beautiful trees is a bonus! My house is nothing fancy either, but like you, I live amongst lots of trees and that makes me happy. I've lived in much nicer houses in the past but I'm just as happy living in my shack in the middle of nowhere as I was living in the fancier ones. The best part about having an ugly house is that it's less likley to be broken into! Burglers usually will skip houses like ours thinking there may be nothing worth stealing inside :)
ReplyDeleteI don't really love our house either. I know that it is right for us just now... with a small family and all but it isn't where I imagine staying put indefinitely. There is an end date, unknown but there. We will move. This is not the place for us. Yet there are memories. Two of my children have come home from the hospital to this house, there have been birthday parties, play... lots of good things to remember.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you mean about not inviting people over though...
its an odd thing isn't it? I don't hate our cottage but I hate that we're both hoarders lol we've run out of room I don't invite people over because of the mess unless I know the person wont think badly of it and nitpick. We live for the animals and birds we keep so the house comes second.... make that last haha love that view though
ReplyDeleteI love how you call it your shouse and shome (and a shome shouldn't be a shame! Sorry, lame pun, but true). Sounding like a mum now, but what they say says more about them rather than you. It does actually sound like you HAVE a great home, sorry, shome. Great husband, great kids, great view - it is a place that inspires you to be creative AND you can be creative there, too (it also provides a lovely backdrop to many of the photos of your stock). I'm sure when people come to visit it's more to spend time with you and your family, rather, than the tv ad says, to judge you and your loo! (apparently 'everyone' does it!). x
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read this I cried a little ... okay, maybe not really, but a piece of me was sad because I too have lived like that. Being an army kid and being sent to private catholic schools was horrifying! All those luxury houses, and my house was a rent-a-fibro-shack with way too many people in it. But then I realised it's not the stuff you have that makes you happy. It's the people you have and the things you do.
ReplyDeleteAnd I can totally tell you that a home without a cobweb or too is probably not a real fun place to be.
(I am recounting those endless hours in someone's white carpeted lounge room with a glass of OJ or the like, freaking out that I might spill it!)
Oh Samantha, you took me right back to my teen years. The main entrance to our house was via a back street, as the front was up a pile of steps. I used to get people to drop me off at the end of the street, rather than have them see me enter through the back gate. But inside that house was love, laughter and a beautiful family. I would be honoured to be a guest in your shome.
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