What one thing is your house says "home" to you?

**daddys3chicks** · 10-26-2005, 10:06 AM

What one thing makes you smile and feel cozy and homey?

I guess mine is actually a group of things - the family pictures on the wall. We have kids, parents, grandparents....I think it shows the family love and ties that bind.

What about you?

**Jayne** · 10-26-2005, 10:25 AM

I think it is my mom's rocking chair...I feel like I am in her house and I can picture all the loved ones who have sat in it over the years

**Emerald_Mommy** · 10-26-2005, 10:36 AM

Definitely pictures and all the furnishings/furniture in our house that our parents and grandparents have made for us or passed down to us.

**Dedlered** · 10-26-2005, 10:38 AM

Dinner with my family on a cold night with the fireplace going....

**pkellyc** · 10-26-2005, 11:34 AM

My maple kitchen table. I grew up on that table, my mother bought it in 1967 when they got out of the navy, so that would make it 38 years old. I ate many family meals there, spent nights doing my homework on it, and many many hours talking on the phone when I was a teenager. And now my family sits at it doing much the same.

**mom2matty** · 10-26-2005, 11:45 AM

Besides all of our pictures I would have to say the rocking chair we have that has been in dh's family for nearly 100 years now.

**mom22grls** · 10-26-2005, 11:49 AM

I like my decorating. It's everything I love.

Not to say I wouldn't make changes if the funds were there.

I like my furniture placements.....it's so cozy.

Cozy colors, cozy furniture, worn out items.

I also like the scent of my home........usually, at least, when it's clean.

I'd REALLY like the scent of a fireplace or woodstove, but that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

**Darlene** · 10-26-2005, 01:08 PM

The kitchen table with all the dings & scratches in it. We bought it off the people who owned our first home because we needed diningroom furniture & the price was right. Don't like the dark wood and was thinking if refinishing it but that would take away from the look my family has given it through years of meals, school projects, games, punkin carving, talks about all kinds of things...

**joyofsix** · 10-26-2005, 01:52 PM

It wouldn't work for most people, but seeing the kids coats, shoes and backpacks lined up makes the place feel like a home.

**Mamaw** · 10-26-2005, 06:06 PM

My chair in the corner with a quilt on it and the end table beside it piled high with books that I am reading, a lamp and a candle. That just says home, peace and comfort to me.

**Katybird** · 10-26-2005, 08:00 PM

I think it is the scent. I always have candles burning or tarts melting and my home always smells nice. My guests always comment on it and it really makes me feel good.

**HandyMom** · 10-27-2005, 12:37 AM

I think it is the big, over-stuffed comfy and worn couch in the livingroom that invites everyone to relax and make themselves at home. It also has been made the guest bed for those spending the night. They seem to really like sleeping on it better than a bed.

**PrairieRose** · 10-27-2005, 07:44 PM

I grew up in this house so everywhere I look I see "something". My dmom loved to do DIY projects and did sooo many down through the years. I love the feel of my home....The panelling I suppose would be the "one thing" . It's not fancy or anything but mom worked so hard on re-doing it when I was a kid and it holds many fond memories for me. That's why even though it's outdated, I didn't change it when I re-did my living room.

**sunshine** · 10-27-2005, 08:04 PM

the handmade afghans/throws I have spread all over.

**Jerseygirl** · 11-05-2005, 10:35 PM

When you enter our front hallway I have two shadowbox frames, one holds a photo of my greatgrandparents, their naturalization papers and their worn out polish/english dictionary, the other has dh's grandfathers photo, his purple heart and military papers. Between them I have a framed studio photo of us with our foster kids. It represents our pasts and present coming together.