This giveaway is closed. The winners are Naomi B, Gail J, and Judi Y. Congrats, and thanks to all who entered and celebrated this book birthday with me! Feels Like Home is still $11.99 on Amazon if you want some extra inspiration for making your house feel more like your home.
Can you believe Feels Like Home turns three this week? It was released on October 12, 2021, and we can’t let this book birthday pass without a little celebration. (There’s a giveaway at the bottom of this post, so don’t miss that!) This book is honestly one of the creative projects I’m proudest of. Typically, when I’m in the thick of a project, I hit difficult and slow-going patches. I question if it’s even a good idea any longer or if I’ve exhausted the energy I can give to it. I used to be discouraged when I hit that point in a project, but I’ve learned it’s a very normal and sometimes necessary part of the project. I never felt that with this book. Not even a hint of it. This book came easily, was so much fun to write, style, and shoot, and I was thrilled with the end result. Looking back on it three years later, I wouldn’t change a thing.
Before I share a few things I love most about the book, I wanted to point out that Feels Like Home is currently available for $11.99 on Amazon! That is such a low price for such a substantial, picture-heavy decorating book. This is a great time to snag a copy for yourself or to give as a gift.
If you weren’t reading this blog or following me on social media during the release of the book, let me offer a snapshot of what the book is about. It features my Minnesota home, an early 2000s suburban home with a two-story foyer and an all-beige color palette. It had a great layout, was well-built, and had a lot of beautiful upgrades, but it needed an injection of personality. Since we were living there and I was the one making most of the decorating choices, it needed an injection of my personality to be more specific. Feels Like Home shares how I transformed a builder-grade house into a home that is unique and full of character.
I also featured a few other homes from the Rochester, MN area and those owned and decorated by friends online. This added more variety and decorating styles to the book. I would say that all of the homes lean traditional and feature antiques.
There are also tutorials sprinkled throughout the book from building faux beams to add architectural interest to a high ceiling and starching fabric to the walls for an interesting (and easily removable) backdrop.
In addition to sharing decorating ideas, Feels Like Home shares my heart and perspective on things like loving your home for what it is, the joys of discovering your style, and embracing the things you love over what’s trendy. If you need a little injection of inspiration and encouragement when it comes to your home, this is the perfect book to add to your library.
To celebrate three years, I am giving away a signed copy of Feels Like Home and a $100 Amazon gift card to THREE winners. The giveaway will be open for entries from today through October 20, 2024, at midnight PST. Three winners will be chosen at random and notified.
To enter, leave a comment here on the blog sharing what feels like home to you.
PS – If you have read the book and enjoyed it, please go to Amazon HERE and leave a review. Even though the book has been on the market for three years, it’s still nice to add more reviews for future potential readers.
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I love your style and have followed you for years!
Home means a sanctuary where it is comfortable , safe and everyone is able to be themselves all the time.
Home is where my heart is, my home that my mom and dad gave me that was part of my grandfather’s land. I love making it my own personality.
We’ll be moving very soon so it would be exciting and helpful to have your book guide me as I make our new house our home!
Home to me is when my safe harbor! And even better when family gathers home.
Home is no fixed place for me. Whatever space I’m in can be made to feel homey and cozy.
Home is a comfy, relaxing place. I love antiques & the personality they add. My home looks like me, not a magazine. I really like a lot of your ideas & your knowledge.
Home is comfortable. It’s being surrounded by people, animals and things that make you happy.
Your posts and books are great inspiration! It always feels like home! Textures and pieces with a story! ❤️
Congratulations! A book birthday is always something to celebrate! This is an interesting question. We made a huge life change to a completely different part of the country and culture about a year ago and it still doesn’t feel like home. We sold almost all our furniture and decor with our previous home. We moved into a new build home less than a year ago and are building out the basement ourselves as well as oodles of other “on the list” projects. We are close by our kids and grandbaby and that always feels like home.😊 But, I have still wrestled with the unfamiliar at every turn and starting over to make friends, find the best places to shop etc. It was several months ago that God reminded me not to get too attached to the things of this world…..He is my home. ❤️ I don’t ever want to forget that even in the years ahead as the unfamiliar turns to the comfortable memories. I think I’d like to do a watercolor to express…. Jesus, is my home. Perhaps I will hang it in my entry to remind me of this truth. Thank you, Marian, for the inspiration throughout the years. ❤️
My home is my sanctuary and I love to share it with my family and friends.
Home is where you can be yourself surrounded by people you love. Home is one’s sanctuary, filled with comfortable surroundings.
What JC said perfectly.
Home is where everyone feels welcome and loved. Where meals and life and stories are shared. Where grace lives.
Gosh I love this book ❤ From the first page through to the last, it is (and probably will always be..) my favourite coffee table book. So home to me, is sitting with a cuppa, listening to my boys play in the background, the greenery & birdlife out the window…and Feels Like Home on the coffee table ❤
Home will always be a sanctuary to me, where I can close the door and sink into the coziness I’ve longed for all day.
Always great style
I’ve just recently moved into my house and am still struggling to make it feel like home. If I’ve learned anything from reading your blog, it’s that making it home is a process. Thank you for that.
Home to me is my Happy Place I can’t wait to get back to. It’s filled with things I love. It wraps me like a warm blanket! It allows me to express myself. Most of all is a place for family to make lifetime memories!
I Enjoy all the ideas They’re very much my style and I love to see how you connect current with vintage.
Thank you
Colleen
Home feels like a safety net!
Home is a comfortable place for love ones to come back to time and time again ❤️
As a family that has often been temporarily displaced or separated (due to work), home is, not to sound too precious, each other and things that we collect when we are together and remind us of those times. Nature bits, small trinkets, art prints.
Home is where my people are! (And cats!) Home is where my decor matches my personality and it makes me feel cozy and safe. ❤️
I love your style and how creatively you put everything together. Home is where you feel at peace 🙂
Home is were the people I love live. It’s a cozyy, warm, lived in place. A place to cook and snuggle with dogs and grandchildren
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A house full of family feels like home ❤️
Home is where I can relax & let down from the busyness of the world. My home is filled with treasures that I love & enjoy
I share many of the same things as you in my home. It is my happy place!
What feels like home to me is when I drive down out of the Santiam pass and into Sisters Oregon the smell of juniper hits and I know I’m here…home.
Home. An illusive word to me all my life as I came grew up in a broken home and due to lack of dad $ support we always moved rental to rental. So I guess to me that home was my mom. That in all the changing that she was solid. She was home. Sadly I lost her 3 years ago this Thanksgiving and I realize with this question that I’ve never felt that solid place since but I know now in my 60s that it’s where I put me in. God gave me that. And I can put it anywhere.
Home is where my heart resides. It’s a safe and secure place for my family and friends enjoying good food, books, lots of laugher consisting of my collections and my memories.
Happy Birthday to your beautiful book! Home is my comfy chair and a hot cup of coffee with my family. ❤️
What a wonderful memories! Beautiful! I love how you take builder grade to a unique personal level!!
Hi Marian – I love your book! My home reflects my love for books, cooking, travel, and the ocean. And I envy your ironstone collection! #CollectingGoals
Home is that “ahhh” feeling; knowing the familiar surroundings are welcoming you back!
Congratulations on your 3 year book anniversary! I enjoy your posts and may have borrowed a few ideas over the years!
Home is a place of rest and love and sanctuary where the crazy world gets left outside.
Home is family — including the pets!
I rarely comment on blogs, but I love how you’ve shown people so many wonderful DIY projects, and how to tackle things on their own! As a designer, I feel your home should reflect you and yours. I love walking into someone’s space and seeing how they live and what the pieces they’ve collected through time reflect who they are.
Home feels like having all of the kids home for dinner!
It feels like home when we’re gathered in the either sharing food or about our days, reading Bible and praying together and laughing at the end of the day.
My answer would have been different 7 years ago , I lost my home to a fire. At that time I realized there is a difference between a home and a house. A home is being with your loved ones regardless of the location.
Home feels like an exhale; a place of peace and love.
So very grateful for my Kentucky home! 🏇
What feels like home to me is when I look at my home & remember the first time I saw her & all the new memories my boys & I would make after the passing of my husband. 30 years later I love her just as much a 1916 cottage in our historical district.
I’m so grateful for the friends I can visit and their welcoming homes.
Home truly is my sanctuary. The place where I feel most at peace and where I allow myself to explore with decorating and my own personal style.
What feels like home to me is a house full of meaningful objects that tell the story of our family over time and revive memories of enjoyable times with loved ones! But having lived in many houses, I can say that a house is not a home without the souls of your loved ones in it!
A tidy home with a peaceful atmosphere,nourishing meals and having my family present!
Home is having my family gathered around the dining table enjoying a good meal. The table is a bit beat up, but it just shows the many hours of loving family time that have been shared there.
What feels like home is our stuff that tells our unique family story. The art, the dings in the furniture, and now-finally-the color we can put on the walls.
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I have a post-it note on the cabinet next to my desk where I wrote my idea of home several years ago to help me stay focused when creating, changing, or decorating my home. It says, “Home-A scrapbook of the family who lives in it.” My goal, when making a home for my family, is to have it reflect my family. For us that means cozy spots to land, quilts to cuddle under, lots of books, quiet places to study, a couch with enough room to watch the big game together, family antiques and objects handed down, space for being creative, collections, embracing things that may not be considered “decor” by others but are family memories that have become our decor, and a welcoming space to those who don’t live here. I want it to exude my love for my family like a hug, as well as giving us a place to extend that love to others.
Congratulations on 5he 3rd anniversary of Feels Like Home Book!!
Home feels like a safe sanitary for myself, family and friends. Inviting, cozy and filled with my treasures that reflect me and my/ourselves in the life we live.
Cats, books and art. Children an added bonus if you are lucky.
Where love is, in all of its varied seasons, that is home. Small houses, old houses, apartments, hotel rooms, little bitty children, grown children, grandchildren, plenty or not, Love makes it home.
My book nook corner is what feels like home to me. Comfy couch, colorful pillows, surrounded on two sides by windows and one side, bookshelves. I have a place for my beverage, my books in progress and can watch the weather outside.
What feels like home to me is having items in my home that were from family and friends that helps me always having a piece of them with me always even when the have passed on! 🥰
Home is being surrounded by the people, and things, that I love!
Baked chicken fresh out of the oven and enjoying it with family. Decor that tells a story.
A warm and welcoming environment that is easy to be in. My home provides me with interesting thoughts and perspectives to create a place I am very comfortable in and allows my personality to show through and share with visitors, guests, family…
Home to me is being able to collapse on the sofa with a something inspiring to look at or read with a warm lap blanket while pride and prejudice is playing on tv
Family and fur babies make my home. I enjoy comfy chairs (I may have a chair problem), cozy throws, and pillows. I don’t follow trends and only use things I love.
Thank you for such a beautiful and practical book. Always a go to.
Home is coming inside on a cold winter day to a cozy fire in the wood stove and the smell the cookies baking in the oven.
Home is where my heart is – where I feel most safe. Surrounded by the memories of my grown children, and my young granddaughters, and special treasures that have been passed down from generations before. Candlelight in the evenings and soft music with a good book and cup of tea. Planning for the next family dinner when we’ll all be together. That’s home for me.
Items with some age & history… that have been passed down from family or treasured Gold Rush finds… are what feel like home. Perfectly homey & welcoming with all their imperfections.
To me, home is a place of safety and comfort. It’s a place where I can surround myself with not just my loved ones and beloved pets; but also the things that bring me joy. There truly is no place like home. ❤️
Home is the place you belong. It’s safe and enfolding. It surrounds you with creative energy or quiet rest, depending on your need.
The people and stories are the tie that binds generations into feeling like home no matter the setting.
Home~when I walk through the door and I see my Mama and my G’ma’s rolling pin, a framed recipe and the feeling that these are my ladies who came before me and led me to the treasure the comfort of days gone by, peace of today and future treasures.
Thank you for asking the question. I also treasure you and the lessons you have shared with all of us.
I’m blessed to be the 7th generation on the family farm. Home feels like heritage, family memories and legacy.
My golden retriever, cooking and my garden♥️
Home is the gift of an ordinary day in a warm house, curled up on a comfy couch with a warm blanket, soup simmering on the stove, my dog snuggled next to me and my family close.
Home feels like a refuge to me. A place where there is safety, love, and acceptance ❤️ preferably filled with antiques!
Congratulations on your 3 year mark! I recently had coffee with a friend who I met at an estate sale. In talking while in line at the sale, we discovered that we attend the same church. That new friend brought your book with her to our coffee date and discussed how much she has enjoyed both your book and blog. Yet one more thing that we had in common 😊.
We are in the midst of a major remodel of an 1860 home. Sold a perfectly finished 1964 ranch, where we raised our children, to take on a huge fixer upper. It will completely “feel like home” when we are at the point of really decorating with all the items I’ve had sitting in storage at my studio for longer than I thought they would have to be there 😉😊
Home is my safe, loving, peaceful sanctuary that I never want to leave. I am surrounded by furnishings and decor items that I love. Also my family that I love, good food and my fur babies. My home includes my gardens where I feed the birds, and enjoy watching nature. It’s the best!
Family heirlooms feel like home (my family, my husband’s, or even a stranger’s if they are of the quality to catch my eye!). Textures in the home of wood, stone, warm metals, wool/cashmere comfort me. (I treasure my $4 full-cashmere throw blanket in sky blue I scored at an estate sale, though my kids scatter my seashell collection on it to play “Beach!” and collect the shells.). Maybe that sums it up… Beautiful things that are USED by our families daily make beautiful, cherished homes. I huff and puff inside when things are out of place, yet won’t I miss these days?! My 3 girls happily playing in our home with our stuff?! We started a married cabinet earlier this year… Bugs carcasses, shells, stones, feathers, snail shells, bones, bits of squirrel tail (ahem) all in pretty jars in an antique display cabinet. I can’t have it any other way! Their squeals and pride of their “finds” give me joy. That’s our home!
Nature cabinet, I meant! Spell check changed it to married cabinet, eek!
Home is where you create a haven to spend with those you love best.
Home is all the family sleeping in upstairs, tucked under their down comforters while my husband and I make bacon and fresh scrambled eggs and hot coffee.
I feel at home when I feel welcome and at peace. It might be a friend’s home, or my own, or somewhere in nature. A place where I can relax, be me, and enjoy either company or solitude.
Home is where you use the things you love…and love the things you use. Feet propped on the coffee table, throw blankets and pillow available for family and guests alike. Mugs ready for coffee, tea, or hot chocolate….to share with family, friends who feel like family, and anyone else who walks through the door. Home is welcoming.
Home feels like a safe launching pad and a happy gathering back together place. I am a recent empty nester :/
I am an only child who was blessed to grow up with both sets of grandparents and my Mother’s Great-Grandmother. Everyone is gone now and I do have a significant other. But truly what is HOME to me is to have many pieces of ephemera, linens, dishes and furniture from those beloved grandparents and great-grandmother. I have lived with much of this my whole life and deeply treasure and cherish everything. I just this past summer purchased some nice leather furniture for our lower level TV area but all other furniture is from a century ago. I often re-arrange things and think about what life must have been like in those times. Thank you for posting all you do. I love seeing how others feature antiques in their home.
Home is being surrounded by family, friends and the things I love most.
After living in California for many years , I moved back to the Northeast and realized Home is where my family is. I was able to travel a few hours to my parent’s familiar cozy home every Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday. Something I had missed for years.
Home to me is when I walk in the door it feels like a big hug! I’ve been following you since you lived in PA. I continue to enjoy all the inspiration you have given me through the years! Thank you!
Home is the place where friends and family gather to reminisce about the past and create new memories. It is the place my husband and I have spent the last few years making our own special place to enjoy our retirement together.
Home to me is a cozy space for my family to gather and play games, talk, & eat all the yummy food 💗
I want the feeling of home to be apparent when I enter. I love feeling surrounded by the things I love in the colors that comfort me most. I want the sounds to represent a feeling of calmness and peace. I hope the smells evoke the memories I create by cooking food that is loved and enjoyed by all who come to my home. Lastly, I hope that the home I have created brings a statement of love and comfort to me and all those I invite in to share it with me.
Home is where I have my comfy chair, a good book, my cat on my lap and a hot cup of tea. Keep up the good work, I very much enjoy your posts
My home feels like home because I’m surrounded with loved ones most of all. But then I have things around me that remind me of loved ones no longer here, memories are everywhere. And I can look around and remember not only the past but recent times that continue to make this house continue to feel like home to so many.
What feels like home to me is a place I can walk into and right away have a sense of peace come over me. A feeling of take your shoes off, put your feet up, and just smile.
Home is family, pets, comfort and peace.
Home is a cozy throw and and family close by.
Home is my favorite place to be! Surrounded by loved ones and my favorite books, plants, art….
where I feel safe!
Home is where I can just BE. I can do whatever I enjoy doing, and it’s all here for me to do. Home is where my wife and kitties are. Home is where I can decorate it to my heart’s content and inject my own and my wife’s personalities. I don’t have to please anyone else with our whimsical home.
Home is where I can relax from the worries of the day. I love to decorate and then re-decorate as the mood strikes me. I love to putter in my garden, try new recipes in my kitchen, read books by the fire in the living room, play the piano, have friends and family over for dinner and games. Home is my heart.
We moved across the country in 2017. The first thing we did was to find a place and hang our favorite painting of the Savior, Jesus Christ. That instantly transformed our new space into our new home!
As a military wife who is moved nine times in my 25 year marriage, home is where my family is! Nothing else really matters.
I love this book! It is so wonderful to see how you transformed a suburban style house into something with so much character. I love all of the ironstone and your studio, which is my favorite.
Home feels like a kitchen filled with wonderful smells and a cozy place to curl up and read a book!
Loved watching your MN house develop into a beautiful home by you. Love the book too! Living in MN, it was fun to have been to places you shopped and commented on.
All of your great ideas and advice in one place!
My cozy little cottage feels like home to me. My family helped me build it during the pandemic and it’s filled with love and whimsy.
My home is definitely my sanctuary, a place of rest and retreat after being out and about, a place where I create art and stitcher through the weeks and years. It’s a comfort from the bustle of life.
Home is the comfiest place to be, where my husband, dog, and cat are, and where our sons and their families are welcome to visit at any time.
Home feels like a soft place to land surrounded by my favorite family photos, needlepoint pillows, and watercolor paintings.
What feels like home to me is to add your own personality to your home. Meaning adding to a builder grade house with special touches. Something that would be just bland to something that comes to life.
You’re the only blogger I follow. I received tons of inspiration from you, especially now that I’m remodeling a ’79 rancher in Texas. My hallway is now in Card Room Green thanks to you. I’ve given away so many of your books for gifts. In fact, I must order Feels Like Home as a friend never returned it. 🙂 Happy to share all your lovely books. I’m a do-it-yourselfer, and your books and blog are a huge encouragement in a world where everyone wants instant and new.
Home is my safe place and my canvas for life. Where all of my favorite people and things congregate.
home is where the heart is.
Home is welcoming, comforting, safe and secure, a place for families and friends to gather, a collection of things I love and a source of pleasant memories.
Home is Family and pets and friends, sharing dinners, good times, sad times, home is everything!
Love your energy and your style. Kudos to you.
Home is being surrounded by people and things that you love. It makes you feel cozy and safe.
Your books are always so inspiring to me, along with your blog!!
Home is where your people are, where you feel the most “feels” and can rest up from the weariness of the world.
It feels like home when all my ‘stuff ‘ is here! That would include all the memories I’ve made growing up in this house. Since my home turned 100 this year I feel like my home has many stories to tell. I love your design sense and the fact that you include MANY antiques in your home.
Home is where my soul is filled. I’d love to live in a area where I could go out my front door and take walks in the woods with my dogs, but for now the gallery wall of paintings with paths leading off into the woods fills my soul.
Home is the place that holds my family and special things that I love!!!
Home is a space for growing, encouraging, training kiddos. Home is a place to let down your guard and feel safe doing so. Home is a place to create, laugh, cry, and try new things. Home feels safe and the place we most want to be.
Home isn’t necessarily a place, it’s a feeling. As long as the people I love are there…it’s home…but, if it can also be warm and cozy and have personality, that’s a definite bonus!
I have been reading your blog since the early days of painted furniture and little boys. 🙂 It is a true testament to your sense of self that you look back on the book and wouldn’t change a thing. I would love to won a copy. Thank you for the opportunity! We live in Western NC in an area heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene. The fact that my home had some close calls but was undamaged is such a blessing when so much destruction happened all around us. Home has always meant a safe harbor, the place where you can really be yourself and serves as a scrapbook of who you are, where you’ve been and what you’ve done. I understand and appreciate that even more now. 🙂
Comment * Home is a cedar chalet with gardens and our rescue pups. No other place I would rather be.
Home is family together making memories.
Home is a place where there’s something cooking , a comfy chair to enjoy a cup of tea , a cozy corner to read a book and most importantly someone to share the nourishment and peace it offers .
Love how you make your house(s) into home!
Home is feeling secure, at peace, loved, and my best friend by my side. 🥰
Home is where I feel warm, cozy, and safe. Where I cook, clean, and sleep. Where I love, share times with family, and reflect on my life. Home is wonderful!
Home is my absolute favorite place in the entire world – period. 🏡
Home is where life is lived, we are changed, relationship is built and the beauty we surround ourselves in heals and comforts us.
Home to me is laughter, love, family, food, card games and a good book. It’s where I can paint a wall blue and hang mis-matched art because I love the colors. Home is where I retreat to on tough days and where I want to celebrate all the great days.
Home is coming back after evacuating from Hurricane Milton and finding our sweet 100 year old cottage completely intact. No power for seven days but it didn’t matter – we were home 🩷.
I love my home and am very thankful to have one, especially now with so many people homeless.
Home is where my family is comfortable and we can enjoy each other’s company.
I’ve read that “Home is where you can be yourself.” That’s
So much easier when you are surrounded by things you love, things that “speak to you,” things that reflect your personality and interests. Thank you for your blog and your books!
Home is where we leave all the outside world and enjoy peace, relaxation, comfort, and love.
My family, my friends, my doggos and my horses are home
My husband, children and grandchildren brings our home to life.
Moody, dark greens, wood, cuddly chairs, books, and cats!
Feels like home is the comfort you feel when you walk through the door and the turmoil falls away. Thank you for sharing knowledge that helps us get there.
A beautiful book that still feels classic and fresh! What feels like home to me is to be surrounded by pieces that hold memories for me – inherited furniture, artwork found on family trips, much loved books that have been read and loved by multiple family members. I could go on. Oh, and as someone before me has mentioned, cats!
Home is bare feet, good food, peace, and love…..
Home is the destination for peace and tranquility. Home makes you feel safe and secure. Home is for memory making. Love your blog!!! Love your style!!!
Home feels like comfort and warmth, family and togetherness! Thanks for the opportunity and happy birthday to your beautiful book!
Home is being with family in our refuge together.
Home is the comfortable chair I sit in to read, the kitchen island I sit at to eat each meal and the love my family gives me while they surround me.
Home is the place where I can think, rest, & regroup for what lies ahead.
Home is my nesting place. I feel loved and content here.
Home feels like a big hug where I feel safe and surrounded by loved ones
Home is when I pull into the driveway and I breath a big sigh of relief. I love decorating my home and the projects that keep me busy.
My family! I have the most amazing children and husband and love gathering together at night in a dimly lit fluffed up family room.
Home is where the memories of my heart are kept. My children are grown, but I can look across the room and still see them doing homework, or playing with their friends. Our home is not large in stature, but huge in joyous memories.
Home is safety, warmth, and comfort, and for me I want it to reflect the influences in my life like my great-grandma. I’ve been in the thick of finding a home that can be made perfect for me for a couple years now.
I moved away from MN just about the time you moved there!
Just bought your book on Amazon! Our current country property has a real barn with two hay rooms, three horse stalls and a three bay garage. The prior owner owned his own logging company and two of those bays housed logging trucks. It has three fenced pastures; one of which I fenced for the world’s biggest dog run! We have remodeled (basically rebuilt) the old house. New roofs, insulation, all new walls, new paint inside and out, plumbing, new wood floors, carpet and electrical and light fixtures! The former owner came by this spring, 21 years after selling it. We invited him in and he couldn’t get over the changes. We built a large simple traditional mantle around the Whitfield pellet stove and its storage hopper (holds almost 3 40lb bags of pellets) , 19″ deep by 64″ in length. We have made a new kitchen, dining room/ library with the stove centered in the middle. This space is very welcoming to our family and friends. We host different functions; the last being a neighborhood canning and smoking fish marathon utilizing our outdoor kitchen with produce and fruit being brought from the Farms around us. Home is a haven for all family and friends and many animals. Our home is love.
Home is a place where my family gathers, where we are comfortable no matter what, where we love and laugh and cry, where we make messes and don’t stress over it, where we make memories, where we settle in at the end of the day. Home truly is the best place to be.
I look forward to your blog every day.
Home is comfort.
Home is a place of rest and relaxation we can share with family and friends. A place away from a busy world. A place of welcome and harmony.
Home is where I can let my creative juices flow!
Home feels like a place where I can come to each day and feel a comforting sigh that I have found my refuge.
Home is where all my favorite stuff and people are!
Home is family and friends! Your book looks beautiful!
Home is where my family gathers together! It’s with our pets and where memories are made and remembered. It’s where we all feel safe and loved and can be our selves without being judged.
To me, having all my kids and the dog in one room feels like the best sense of home there is. Given I’m a home decor fan, a home filled with memories from things like travels and mementos from the people I love who have passed helps make my home feel like home. Thank you for the opportunity and for all of the years of endless inspiration!
Home is where I feel so comfortable that I’m not longing to be somewhere else!
To have all my family in my home that I decorated myself is home to me!
Home feels like a genuine sanctuary. Genuine loving people who live in an environment of peace and intentionality. No fast trends for clothing or furniture, which ends up in landfills. Solid wood, linen, and ironstone are many years old, but still makes my heart pitter patter. And that’s what home is about.
My home is my hobby. Love decorating and moving things around. When I
get done I want to feel like “Theres no where else Id rather be. My porch already makes me feel like”feels like home”
My home has been so many things during the last 55 years – newlywed to children to grandchildren and now as a widow. Many noisy family times and also quiet, peaceful times. Love the memories of the past and looking forward to more fun memories as my family continues to grow.
Any home decor with the P Kaufman Lakeland plaid says home to me. I just love that fabric!! And my throws and baskets placed around the house for visitors if they get cold.
Opening the door and feeling joy and comfort is what home means to me. Thanks for the opportunity to win one of your signed books!
Home is where my grown children come back to:)
Home is that place that knows us by name. It is a place of unconditional love and rest.
Home is where I love to rest and relax and enjoy my pieces I’ve collected over the years and reminisce❤️
Family and friends make a place feel like home. Thanks for your generous offer!
Everything blue and white feels like home to me. Thanks for the opportunity
My home is a part of my soul, and anyone that knows me feels it when they enter.
Home is a place to curl up with a hot drink and a kindred spirit.
Home to me is where I’m comfortable, at peace with myself, among my loved ones and the treasures collected from our lives over the years..
This comes from being a long time active duty military wife…
Framed just inside our entry door hung this sign..
Welcome
” Home is where the Navy sends our stuff”
Home feels like warming up by the fireplace, snuggles with my kids on the couch watching a movie, game nights with friends, and Saturday morning coffee with my husband on the porch.
My family + a safe, cozy, and relaxing place feels like home to me. 🥰
Holiday decorating is what Feels Like Home To me. Any holiday.
Home is a sanctuary, where you have permission to be yourself and express yourself with authenticity, where a little sigh passes your lips upon returning, and the familiarity of your favourite things feels like a reassuring shoulder squeeze!
home is where i have curated it with all my hunts and picking, family heirlooms, friends, and family gifts —— a treasure chest of memories.
I’ve followed you for what seems forever. You make me realize that My home can be anyway that reflects me and what makes me feel happy.
Congratulations!! Feeling at home is being surrounded by those you love and things you love. Warm, cozy, and happy. ❤️
Home is warm, cozy and completely me. Colors I chose and styles I chose. Jewel tones mainly on the warm side like a warm teal blue, olive green, cinnamon and navy. And of course the blue and white we love. It’s velvet drapes, wool rugs, and warm throws. And family. Never forget the loved ones.
You have inspired me to make my home a sanctuary filled with things I love! Thank you for taking us along through all your remodeling and decorating journeys. You are filled with talent!
Home is where the family gathers to enjoy time together m
Where my family is feels most like home, but I also love having artwork on the walls.
To me, Home feels like a safe, warm, loving space where family and friends can relax and rejuvenate, surrounded by the beauty of loved objects collected over time.
Home is a classroom and laboratory for learning about life, love, loyalty, creativity, responsibility, and dealing with life’s ups and downs. A refuge where one learns to be a productive member of society and exercise generosity of spirit. A little bit of heaven on earth.
To me, home is that special place where you feel cozy, loved and safe and can’t wait to get back to after a long day. Thanks for all that you share … it inspires us all.
Home is my happy place.
Home is the place where I most want to be.
Hi Marian ~
Congrats on your book’s anniversary!
Home is being with my family. A place where we can laugh together, fellowship, create, and converse freely – that feels like home to me.
Bought your “Home” book a few months ago. It has become a regular reference tool for ideas, tutorials, instructions, and inspiration. Thank you for pouring yourself into this book! My daughter just purchased her first home which has sat uninhabited for over two years. Simply put…it needs cleaning, cleaning, then more cleaning, but she has a very blank canvas on which to begin. I bought her a copy of your book for inspiration. You are a gift.
I love your style , I find myself going to your book often. A home is thing’s you love and is a story about you and your interest. However, that is not always easy to present in your style to other people in how you put things to showcase this idea. You help others understand how to incorporate this in your decorating style.
My library with the Strawberry Thief wallpaper and the fireplace feels like home to me- especially when my adult children are sitting in that room talking!
Congratuations! For me, home is family, comfort, beauty and color!
Home is a welcoming and restful place where we can laugh with and enjoy time with family and friends and just be outselves. It’s a respite from some of the craziness of the outside world and a place to rejuvenate.
Home is a welcoming and restful place where we can laugh with and enjoy time with family and friends and just be ourselves. It’s a respite from some of the craziness of the outside world and a place to rejuvenate.
Home is safe, quiet, nature and having your possessions reflect those things. It’s you being you in a space that you create.
I loved your Minnesota home and I’ve really enjoyed watching you make this new house a cozy home for your family.
My idea of home is family and friends gathering and cooking together.
A comfortable couch with pretty pillows and fresh flowers/ greenery placed nearby feel like home.
Comfortable, homey, people I love, and a restful place.
You are remarkably talented, Marion. God has blessed you with such a creative mind. Your hard work ethic is an inspiration to so many people. Congratulations on your anniversary!
Feels like home…at this time of the year I love providing a warm fire, yummy comfort food and good conversation for our dear friends and family.
We are so fortunate to have a wonderful home mortgage free to share.
Marian,
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home and life for all your followers. You truly inspire us ! 🙂
May you all find some peace and comfort at home
Home to me is a comfortable place where friends and family are always welcome.
Your book is still one of my favorite decorating and inspiration books in my collection.
Home is to me, being loved unconditionally faults and all, forgiving and really forgetting, and learning something new each day.
Home is your safe place with things around you that you love.
Home is where my grandsons come in, head straight for the frig, then plop in front of the tv and tell me the house is “cozy!”
Home is the place you make snuggly and warm. The place your kids enjoy coming home to. It’s the place of security and comfort, the place to be yourself with your tribe. It’s the place you yearn for when you’re away. Thanks for all you share with us. You have transformed my home for the better. ~
We’ve moved often, so our heirlooms and “treasures” we’ve collected help us feel “at home” in new places.
Home feels like safety, peace, and love.
As a military family, I learned a long time ago, that home is where my family is. ❤️
Home is having my family and loved ones around the dinner table.
Home to me is being surrounded by my family and all the things that I love whether, it is a beautiful antique, flowers, books, things my granddaughters have made for me. It makes me feel happy and a wonderful sanctuary.
My CoCo puppy makes it home. It’s just me and her. She makes it warm and sing happy, happy, and really happy!
Home to me is a safe haven, where I have watched my 3 beautiful girls grow into 3 beautiful women. It is where I can be myself. It is where I can use my talents to create beautiful things! It is where my husband and I are growing old together! Home is where I have been able to spend time in the word of God, to grow my Faith, and to come to Jesus in prayer! Home is where I feel most loved!
Congratulations on your book, Marian! I love the photos you’ve shared. To me, home is where you can be comfortable and really yourself. You should be cozy and accepted and comfortable there.
Wow! Crazy it’s been three years! Your amazing slipcover tutorials have make my home feel like home! Thanks for all you do!
Whenever I move I have a couple boxes which travel with ME. A few utensils, 2 dishes, coffee, tea, my fave decorative kitchen items. I round that out with two mugs and travel mugs. My first morning in the new house I feel at home.
After moving in, it’s just knowing that I’m settled in my comfortable sanctuary.
Home is where my heart and soul is everyday. Since I am now retired I get to enjoy it even more.
Home is a where family is baking in the kitchen gathered around the table playing games. Feeling loved and supported by those you love. And home is where the beautiful light comes in the window and reminds you of how blessed you are to have a home.
There are homes — where I put my stuff, where I eat and shower and dress, etc. And then there are the truest kinds of home where the heart of the family beats, where there is comfort, warmth, welcome, and peace (usually).
Thanks for writing the beautiful book and for offering a copy to three of us. It’s very kind of you!
Home is where family and loved ones come to celebrate life authentically…. with laughter, tears, a listening ear, and a home-cooked meal! There’s no hurry to leave… and when the day is done, all of us are so glad for our relationships with one another!
Home is a safe, quiet refuge from the world, a place to belong, a place of warmth and beauty, a place of togetherness. 💗Home is dim reflection of our perfect heavenly home–eternity with our Savior Jesus Christ.
Home is a sanctuary and a launching pad – a place of creativity and comfort, a place you might leave but always carry in your heart. It’s as much a feeling as a place. I hope my daughter takes that with her when she strikes out on her own.
Using my tea kettle and treasured mugs always make me feel at home!
Home is sharing and family – my Mom’s beautiful and much used white ironstone, my dad’s incredible handmade furniture and the quilts my sister and I make. It’s knowing you belong, no matter how old you have become and the joy in sharing all of that with your own children. Home is Love.
We have been in our country home on 5 acres for 26 years, and even the grandchildren say it feels like home to them when it comes into sight. Not sure how many more years we will be able to keep up the property, but we are thankful to be the caretakers of this gift from God for as long as he allows!
Home is where we relax. Home is being with the love of my life.
Home is my haven for family and friends created throughout many, many years. Years of finding what brings joy, warmth and that “just right” feeling. It’s the little things that come together that create my home, our home. It’s uniquely us❤️
Warm furniture in rooms with cool colors on wall and window, candles flickering amid eclectic china pieces and linen accents, family momentos sprinkled throughout, and our golden retriever lying at our feet. Thats what feels like home. Oh… and books. Lots of good books… and pillows!
Home is more than walls and a roof. It’s the place that welcomes me after a long and stressful day with its cozy nooks and crannies and collection of favorite things. It’s where I can pile a stack of books next to my big chair to read from at will, and they can sit there in that stack until the next time I dust, and nobody complains. It’s where I can welcome friends and grown kids, toss together a tasty, last-minute meal for company, or curl up with a purring cat in my lap. It’s my sanctuary and the one place where I can put my hand on a sturdy door jam and whisper softly, “Thank you, house, thank you home.”
Home, for me, is my haven from the world where I can rest, relax, cook, sew, read, garden, decorate, all between waiting for my people to come over.
Home to me is the feeling that you get when you walk through the door after a long day. It’s familiar smells like bread baking, muffins cooling on the kitchen table and tea brewing in the pot. It’s your happy place.
Home is with people I love in a cozy place with comfortable furnishings and colors that cheer me!
Home is where all of my beautiful memories are. It’s where my kids grew up. It’s filled with lots of laughter and fun. It’s also a place with too many chandeliers.
I would love to win this great giveaway. Congratulations on the anniversary of your book!
Home is where the fabric and the pup is!
Was just looking at your book yesterday. And have already given it as gifts.
(Are we getting a Maryland house book, pretty please?)
Home is a place of comfort where I can be myself and enjoy the love of my family. (ps. I found your blog from reading your book!)
Home is where I can either seek solitude or have all the friends and family over with their kids and dogs! And how it looks is totally up to me. Neutral or full blown color? Minimalist or maximalist? It’s my decision. Isn’t that fun?
I’ve had the blessing of making every address we’ve ever had feel like home, tweaking “what is” to make it ours and providing a warm and welcoming space for all who visit, a place I love to come back to.
Home right now is excitement over nearing the end of a kitchen renovation. IYKYK!
WOW! Three years have come and gone since your book release? That is wonderful, Marian. BIG CONGRATS!
I have been reading your blog for years and years and before that was a MMS Milk Paint fan. Thank you for this very generous giveaway!!!!
Home for me means tranquility and safe place. I am so blessed to have a serene world in which to be creative, rest well and enjoy. I have to say home is heaven on earth to me, shared with a wonder husband. Just this morning my older sister called – discussing her need to do some upgrading to her place. And she gave me the greatest compliment I have ever rec’d on my home. She said – and I quote “When I walk into your home it always brings tears to my eyes how tranquil and welcoming and cozy it is.” *Sigh* Doesn’t get much better than that, does it? Praise be to God for these blessings.
Home should feel like a hug – with all the things you love & cherish.
I have loved reading your blog for so many years!
Home = Family
Home feels like the arms of someone you love wrapped tightly around you.
Home is where I am living… ministry has taken us around the world…so we have lived in many different houses. I take my old furniture and dishes as make it “home” every time. I like ved your first book and look forward to maybe getting this one. Blessings
Home is comfort, belonging, security and my two cats.
Barring passage to the front door sits an easel along with a vintage yellow cosco three tier cart, laden with painting supplies ever ready for the next masterpiece. A few feet away, the dining table is laden with fabric, sewing machine. With hopes that the quilt will be finished by Christmas. The kitcen; its island currently buried deep in canning jars, pots and accoutrement. Nine beatiful quarts of tomato juice await their journey to the basement for storage. As if all this wasnt enough there are all the projects lying in wait. The ceiling in the dining/ kitcen needs skim coated, primed, painted. The living room still wears popcorn. Stacks of flooring resting in the garage to be laid. Its home. Our home. Theres nowhere else I’ld rather be.
I absolutely loved your book! In fact, I loved it so much that it was on my bedside table for months until I had a friend that needed a little injection of “hope” so I shared it with her in hopes that it would give her ideas on how she might make a home of her own. I am a semi retired decorator and I love to encourage and assist others establish a home that feels like a hug when they walk through the door. For me, home is the place where dreams are shared and often brought to fruition, tears are freely shed and love abounds. Our home is pretty much DIY accomplished with my creativity and my husband’s “can do” skills We have almost always bought project houses as we like to make it our own plus we feel we end up getting a better home for our money. Our current home is my favorite home of the 12 places where we have lived. It is nothing overly fancy, yet lovely in a quiet cosy sort of way. Home means a place where we feel the magic of how very precious we are to one another and how blessed we are to have our sweet home. It’s our favorite place in the whole world to be.
Home is books, family treasures, plants and a project (or more) on the dining room table.
Home is the sphere in which I love and serve my wonderful husband and family to the glory of God! And all that entails in creating and maintaining a comfortable place to rest, relate and flourish together.
Home is my safe harbor. Home is a place of peace, joy and my beloved family. Very grateful to have a lovely home especially with so many who have had their homes gone or heavily damaged from the hurricanes. Thank you for your blog and your creative hard work you pour into it. May the Lord bless you and keep you in all your endeavors.
A retreat at the end of the day, french country with a little olde world vibe, surrounded with decor collected from world travel keeping me connected with friends and family.
Congratulations on your anniversary!
For me, home is turning a house into a cozy sanctuary for yourself and your family. It is the backdrop for memories of good food and fellowship shared with your closest friends and loved ones.Home is your heart on display.
Home is when you walk in and see all the things that bring you joy, are familar and cozy! I may not have the best of everything, but what I have I have choosen to put into my home because I love!
Home feels like the place I can fluff my nest at will. Where MY special people & critters hand out. There has to be flowers inside & out, and layers of fabrics & textures all with a dash of whimsy🌸
My home is where I feel most at peace. There are so many wonderful memories my family and I have made here and it feels like a warm hug returning home at the end of a long day. I have loved seeing all of the updates you’re making to your current home. It’s beautiful and I love your style!
I’ve been following you for years and I have to say you are my favorite blogger. I love coming home. It’s a reflection of warmth and cozy. My best compliment was a friend saying my home is so comfortable to just come in and relax. My home is where all the celebrations are .
Home to me is a cozy chair, a lighted beeswax candle on the dining room table, soft music playing in the background and a nice long read from a delightful book. It can also mean the laughter of family enjoying a good meal around “said” table.
Thank you for sharing your homes with us.
Love your style! Home is personal and family…like a warm cozy sweater.
Home to me is where my husband, our old rescue dog, and my treasured collections are. We currently live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, (8 years now) and couldn’t be happier here. No antiques came with us (sold everything and brought only some clothes and the dog), but I have since started to collect here…old talavera pottery and Mexican religious art. Our brand new condo now feels like home to us. You are my favorite blogger because I love how you make each of your homes so personal—- all about you and your family.
I have been living away from my home for six months now and on Tuesday am heading back home. I am excited about that because even though travel is fun, home is the best. What am I looking forward to the most? My own bed with my snuggly 100% cotton sheets, my own shower that we just put in before we left. My comfy chair and throw, surrounded by lots and lots of books. My crafting room, but most of all my grandchildren that I haven’t seen in six months!!
We’ve lived in a lot of homes in different states with different styles, but they all had warm and welcoming kitchens. Sharing a meal with family and friends, old and new, make it home to me.
Home is comfortable and welcoming. It is a sigh of relief and contentment. It is laughter and food and a place for PJs and long talks on the couch.
Home is a safe space to unwind
Home is anywhere the I am with my family. The military has sent us all over the world and as long as we’re together each place has been home.
Home is a place that reflects a cozy welcoming atmosphere for friends and family to gather. I have followed you through all your moves and homes. I love all of your creativity.
Home is comfort. It’s where you feel safe and can be yourself. Thank you for sharing your home (s).
Home is where I can relax with family and friends. It’s the place where I can feel cozy and comfortable and share my creativity. Home is a place for good times, good food and good friends and family.
Feelings of home are when my entire family is gathered in the house. Sharing memories and enjoying each others company and some good food. And a nicely decorated home makes it all the more better.
In this season of live, home is having lots of teenagers’ keys hanging on the hooks, a constant flow of food and drinks and lots of laughter from the upstairs hangout room. Next year, it will be quiet and whoa what a change that will be! Would love to have a copy of the book to dream about new ideas.
I love that old saying “Home is where the heart is “…and it is so true. It’s where we feel the comfort of love and the feelings of peace.
As a longtime military family home is where my husband, children and dogs are. Any space can be made cozy and liveable but family is what makes a space a home.
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.
Home is a refuge and sanctuary from the outside world. It’s full of love and memories shared with those you love. Home shows friends and guests who you are and what you love through how you choose to decorate, collect, cook, get creative, even what you listen to! Home is an extension of yourself that you can use to embrace all who come through your front door.
I live in an old Farmhouse and have utilized alot of your DIYs into it. Your tutorials are on our level and are very clear and concise. I haven’t had a chance to buy your latest book, but would a chance at getting it. Thank you for this opportunity.
Home is like the comfort of soup simmering on the stove, comfy sweatpants and sweatshirt and a cozy warm quilt on a cold day! Home is a place where you can relax and enjoy family and friends and be surrounded by the things that you love and make the home yours!
Home feels familiar. As I age, I find myself gravitating to filling my home with things that bring me to the past. Things my own mother might have had (or did have) in our home as a child. Antiques, things with a patina. Comfortable and cozy and restful.
Home is me and things I love, moving around many times, cause I live alone and can. I got your book when first out and signed! And now pulled back out to enjoy again, your colors style has for sure influenced my choices with a bit of Pat bougie added!
My favorite part of my home is my family being there! Without them it wouldn’t feel like home. I like decorating with antiques and plants, a touch of boho and not too much clutter. A lived in house feels like home! ❤
Home is where my friends feel welcome and are comfortable. I love to host dinners and neighborhood parties. I would love to win your book, I love your blog.
Home is safe, comfortable and a place for creativity to thrive!
Congratulations on your book anniversary! Home is the place where we are surrounded by the things that evoke loving memories of family and friends. It is a pleasant and comfortable space where we can relax, think about meaningful things, be creative, and take care of one another. I love your blog and look forward to it every day! Thanks for adding a bright spot to my day.
Home is where I can be myself and spend time with the ones I love the most – my family and friends. Congratulations on your book anniversary. I’ve been following your posts for years and always thoroughly enjoy keeping up with you.!
Our home is modest but warm and safe, filled with the peaceful love of Jesus as we humbly serve each other. And kitties to snuggle with are a requirement!
My home is a sanctuary where we come to rest and recharge❤️ your book and blog have given me such inspiration to “ feather my nest” thank you❤️
What feels like home to me is wildflowers in a vase, a cat snuggling next to me and a scented candle.
Congratulations on your book birthday. It looks beautiful! Home to me engages the five senses … beautiful and interesting things to look at that tell our family’s story; smells of a wonderful candle and/or cleaning products; lots of different textures to be cozy and comfortable with (everything is used and touched); tastes of home cooking and baking; sounds of family and friends and music is a given. My heart is glowing because I experience all of these daily, and truly love my home, as does my husband, which is so important when you’re empty nesters 😀
Home is wherever my son is. All of his hugs are special and in shorter supply now that he is almost 10 years old. Our home is a place to worship, laugh and love.
Our home is where we find ourselves together; my husband, son, and myself. Through all experiences; easy or difficult, at least we are together.
Marian, thank you for all you do.
Home to me feels like a peaceful cozy sanctuary away from the frenetic pace of the world.
Home is where my husband, our children and our grandchildren are, and I am eternally grateful for that.
Reader for years! Thank you for your regular & consistent blog content!
So many of my “feels like home” thoughts center around food! Fresh apple butter warm in the dutch oven in early October. Hot drip coffee with my favorite hazelnut creamer first thing in the morning. Cinnamon chip scones as my kids are waking up standing in the kitchen across from them (with mega bed heads & cute toddler pajamas).
Home……….it’s all about the love and traditions of friends and family. I have tried to replicate the good memories of my childhood growing up, for my own by trying to make our home cozy; employing everyone to help with cooking,baking, seasonal decorating, etc.,etc. I always make my dad’s recipe for crock pickles, so when everyone walks in, they smell that dill & garlic! Reminds them of Gma & Papa’s (who are now gone) house in Ohio! (We live in Virginia). Home is where the fondest memories are made.
Home is a place of comfort and security, surrounded by cherished loved ones.
To me home is a place where you feel like you belong. I love creating an atmosphere of belonging for my family and friends.
One knows it feels like home, when a compliment is received from a guest qualifyng how cozy or comfortable my house is. Kim
Home is where my husband and family are. I love my home to be beautiful, cozy, light, and happy.
Home means a place where my family and friends are–where we socialize and share things
Home feels like a hug, a warm safe space to live and love.
Congratulations on the anniversary of bringing this project to the world.
Home is where I can be myself – kick off my shoes and relax – put the worries of the day to rest! I love your blog and your style – congrats on a job well done.
Home is the place you can be your truest self, and for me that is a place to create and garden, cook for people I love great food. One thing that evokes home for me is smell- I live by a forest and close to the puget sound, so fir, and cedar mixed with briney sea water- in summer add pineapple weed to that and it just brings my blood pressure down.
I love walking through my home and still loving it, inspite of the many quirky flaws.
I love still being excited of new things to accomplish and redo after 33 years in our old home.
Most of all home is in my heart , my dear hubs, our children and grandchild and the memories in this home ♥️
Have read your blog from the beginning !
What feels like home to me is comfy sofa and chairs, while snow is falling slowly from the sky, with the smell of my favorite winter comfort food wafting through the house. My favorite winter comfort food is potato chowder with apple smoked, thick sliced bacon crumbled on top.
Soft textures, watery cools and wood feel like home to me
Home is comfy chairs, lots of books, a pot of tea at the ready.
Happy 3rd book birthday to Feels Like Home!
Home to me is what my younger son once said to me, “When you walk into our home it feels like the walls are hugging you.”
Having personal artwork and photographs!
Feels like home means cozy blankets, books and magazines, family and hot coffee.
Home is where you and your loved ones are.
Thank you for this wonderful give away! Home is where everyone feels welcome! 🥰
Home is a cozy sanctuary. A place that makes you smile when you walk in the door.
Home is where I can be myself and express a part of me in a unique way.
“Welcome home” are two of the sweetest words one can hear
Home is where my family finds comfort, security, and love, and friends are always welcome. 💗
Your love of blue and white when decorating is my first choice when choosing colors. The dishes I chose when I got married are from Louisville Stoneware and are the blue, white, and green grapes pattern. I’ve continued to choose those colors over the years.
What “Feels like home” is something I’ve asked myself a lot after moving to new home! I keep asking myself what can I do to feel at home here?! We didn’t have our furniture for a while and as we brought in my grandma’s piano, the cabinet my husband built me and my grandfather’s table…it all started to feel like my home again. Along with memories and being surrounded by the people I love, I’m starting to feel like I’m home again.
I have really enjoyed your book It Feels Like Home. I have it on my coffee table.
I pick it up often and enjoy the inspiration. I actually found it at Home Goods as I was walking through. Did a double take and picked it up and headed to the check
out. Couldn’t believe my good luck. Still smile about that day.
Home is a place like no other. It has that certain feel of peace and comfort that mean so much to only you.
Home is that space that is comfortable and familiar. It just feels relaxed and welcoming with various memories of special moments together.
The place you can genuinely be clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy.
Congratulations!! Home to me is where my people are! It’s a place we feel the most comfortable and loved. We’ve curated an environment with cozy, collected, and memory filled items that make it easy for us to kick back and relax.
I feel at home when I am surrounded by family and pets, good food, and family heirlooms and collected pieces that tell my family’s story.
Home is a safe place, a shelter from the storms and stresses of this world. Home is where when you walk through the door there is a sense of delight and comfort knowing that you will be cared for body and spirit. A place where you are encouraged, a place to laugh, talk, eat and enjoy family and friends. Home is an expression of those who live within its walls. Years ago I read a devotion from Chuck Swindoll’s book, Season’s of Life. His words about home have stuck with me for almost 30 years. In his Appraising Life devotion he ended it with this quote. “Home is a lot of things…but mainly it is the place where life makes up its mind.”
Home is where my heart is, my refuge from the crazy hectic world. Where I can enjoy my life’s blessings from travel mementos, being creative, savoring a home cooked meal and even enjoying house projects yet to be completed.
Home feels like being surrounded by art, books, and ephemera that remind me of my family past and present. Home feels collected, created, and curiosity-inspiring — that’s why I love your blog, Marian!