How can you make a house less like a house and more like a home?
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Just by living in it. A house becomes a home only with love.
Mix some laughter, a small amount of sadness, a few fights and a lot of making up. Before you know it you won't recognize the old place. And buy furniture you can put your feet on! Bake some cookies, too. It will smell wonderful.
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To make a house feel more like a home you can put up pictures, throw pillows, throw blankets. Candles & curtains also make a room feel cozy and inviting. I personally think that starke white walls feel like you just moved in, paint walls a nice soft color or bold, whatever your taste is. Good luck.
Well, aside from filling it with a family and living in it, personalize it. Find something a theme that is significant to you in some way, and spread that around the whole house. Every room should reveal something about who you are and what your interests are. Plan out a color palate that works well together. Also, use keepsakes-- for examle, black and white photographs or drawings from kids-- frame and display things that other people might not. You can use your culture, your hobbies, or your passion to draw inspiration. Finally, make it inviting by throwing books in baskets and pillows on the floor (tastefully); put trays with magazines on the sofa. Light candles, and make sure to keep your blinds/curtains up to let light in. Hope this helps...
Buy things that you love and make you feel good.always add plants to make a room come alive. Use throws and pictures. Don't try to be too match everything. You will find that the things you like actually go together because it is your taste. Your room will feel inviting and not cluttered. Buy things that you like and group them in threes or fives. You will be surprised at the results. Happy Decorating!
Great question!
To me, it is all in the plants. I decorate my house using earthly colors, happy tones and shades of green, and lots of plants!
Nanad, your answer is right on! Well said.
Add a few pictures of family, some throw pillows, a good book or two, a throw, some soft music, sit on the sofa, pull up your feet under you and enjoy.
that is nothing you can do with decorating.
A house is a physical structure, it has walls and a roof, bathrooms kitchens, floors, furniture. Its a place you can live in, eat, play, do things.
HOME is emotional. Home is where your heart is. Home is where you feel you belong. Its where your memories are, its where your emotional attatchments are. The way to build your home, is by building your memories. Like when you walk through your house, look at marks or scuffs on the floor and remember how they got there, its the lines on the wall measuring how tall your kids were at what ages, its the squeeky stair that always wakes you up when your husband/wife goes downstairs for a glass of water in the middle of the night, that is what makes a house your home. Its the memories created there, the love shared and felt, that make a house a home.
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