DISQUS

Bee · 1 year ago

there are 2 boxes filled with personal belongings stored in my mom's attic in my hometown. scrapbooks, picture frames, books, some presents. when i moved away 6 years ago to study and live in the great wide world, i threw away or gave away pretty much everything else, but the boxes are still there and at some point this summer i'll pick them up and then i'll truly be at home where i live now. (considering i've been living here for 2 years now and the place still looks like i've just moved in, i guess it's about time too)
/cosmopolitan vivacity

Laurel · 1 year ago

Our two rescue kitties, brother and sister, now about nine months old. Watching over them as they overcame earlier trauma and became happy little cats has turned our apartment into a home.

"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat." -- Tay Hohoff (Harper Lee's editor)

Guylaine · 1 year ago

Beeing away from my own country and away from friends and family for a three years posting, we (my children and I) first lived in this huge furnished house that we hadn't chosen ourselves. The house was very impressive and full of antiques, but we felt like we were living at a hotel for a whole year. We moved after the first year... and I can easily answer that what I (and my children) cherish about our home away from home is... our own personality invested in the decor, the choice of furniture, the colors, etc... Without that, even the most beautiful house doesn't have a soul...

christina brillati · 1 year ago

Pictures of my children - their portraits are my art, covering almost every free wall space. My beautifully beat up farmhouse kitchen table. It's the heart of the house!

Kirsty · 1 year ago

Bee - I know exactly how you feel. I finally unpacked after six years of living in places around the world. Now I am settled in my own space, this time with a partner. From all those unpacked boxes, I cherish my mish-mash collection of blue and white dishes collected from garage sales, my yellow antique writing table, and of course, all my photo albums.

Chantal · 1 year ago

I love my statues...Buddha, Quan Yin, Tara, Gnesha, and more. They create sacred space and serve as good reminders.
I make offerings of flowers, incense, money, and food.
This helps me to remember otherness, awareness and beauty.
My Style Statement: Sacred Gift

Janet · 1 year ago

I couldn't agree more. My two cats are about 2 years old and very loving. They've made my apartment a home for sure.

Besides them, I cherish the little bookcase and curio shelves that were my mum's mother's. They're all a lovely dark wood and remind me of her daily.

Xai Vicente Charles · 1 year ago

What I most cherish are the old photographs and letters from my family. Because my family began migrating to the US in 1937 from Brazil there is lots of wonderful history in these photos. I love the photo of my grandmother in front of Macy's on 34th Street in 1940. I am especially proud of the ones I've restored and framed.

Merritt · 1 year ago

My Kitchen-Aid mixer. My passion is cooking, and when I am using this heavy, sturdy, fabulous piece of equipment I feel like I am being my most productive self, using my true talent. I create things with it that people get to enjoy - and when I satisfy my friends and family with something I've made, I feel totally satisfied.

Rushmi · 1 year ago

My King bed. Every morning I bring my 6 month old in to bed so I can nurse her. ususally 10 minutes later my 6 year old joins us in bed, she cuddles in next to her dad and falls back asleep. I love that all four of us fit comfortably in this beautiful big bed - but most of all, I enjoy watching my family "sleeping-in" all snuggled next to eachother - and meanwhile I keep hitting the snooze button begging time for another 10 minutes of bliss in our King bed.

weezie · 1 year ago

I LOVE my All-Clad cookware. I've been buying it one piece at a time over the past 2 years and it fuels my passion for cooking. I don't cherish many "things", but these pots & pans, a 35-year-old Kitchenaid mixer, and my mother's food-stained Houston Jr. League cookbook make me very, very happy.

Donna · 1 year ago

Home is where my heart truely is. Even though my home is the house of my dreams, it is still just a house. Being at "home" can be in my house or RV; or houses of friends and family. I love to be where I feel at home. I cherish the people, the smells, the places, and the memories. In case of a fire though, I will grab photos and my grandmothers recipe box!

Cindy · 1 year ago

Fresh flowers feed my spirit and so every few weeks I treat myself. I love my garden pots, which I am just now in the process of planting. They help create a backyard paradise where I can just sit and smile. Thank you for asking these questions. I am so enjoying the thougtful moments they produce. Hugs C.

Ellen Falkenberry · 1 year ago

I have two statues of Quan Yin - a wooden one on the mantel indoors and a stone one outdoors in the garden. Just to look at her brings me peace.

Ellen Falkenberry · 1 year ago

My home is a sanctuary where we come to be restored. It is more the feeling of the place than an actual item that I love about it. It is where we come to BE.

In honor of Chantal, I will add my style statement: Sacred Elegance.

Tanya · 1 year ago

Our Miele vacuum cleaner. I cherish a clean house and this machine makes me very happy.

Denise Hogan · 1 year ago

What I cherish most about my home is not the stuff (although I have some cool stuff, and a great absence of LOTS of stuff), but the sense of fulfillment and peace I feel from the life I've created for myself and my family.

Tina Woodlee · 1 year ago

I love all of my flea market and second hand finds. I started collecting because of budget limits but now I find that I prefer the uniqueness of each item and the story of how and where they were found. I once found a rug at a roadside stand in Mexico. It was an image of a man weaving a rug. I had to borrow money to get it but years later I went to work for an orential rug company. Now it really represents a story in my life.

MelissaM · 1 year ago

I've often said that if there was a fire in my apartment I'd find a way to throw my journals out a window and then I'd rescue my teapot before making my escape. My journals go back to when I was 8. My blue teapot is my favourite piece of pottery. Functional art at its best. In fact, I'm between homes right now and couldn't bear to pack the teapot, so it's sitting on my desk at work instead.

Cathy · 1 year ago

I love the opportunity to reflect on these daily questions. It deepens the gratitude in my life. I cherish the art produced by earlier generations. I have some oil paintings done by my great grandfather and great grandmother. I have rocks from my grandfather who was a geologist. I have my grandmother's hand written and cut and paste recipe books. I have several water color paintings by my step-dad. I mentally hold on to these items as inspiration. I anticipate that my creativity will grow with age and I too will be an artist as I move more towards being and away from doing.

Kathleen · 1 year ago

The gorgeous New York City views from my windows. A Buddha statue my husband bought for me in Korea. My Nana's pink and green apron. My blue and white china. A cozy chestnut-colored leather chair for reading and dreaming. My collection of cookbooks.
aka Timeless Discovery

Krystl · 1 year ago

I cherish the things with a story, or a history, and things that were handmade for me. My wedding album, my favorite childhood doll, the boxes my father made, the blue glass bird from carol, the antique ring box my aunt susannah gave me, the jewelry my uncle has made for me over the years, a collection of my mother's poetry. My harddrive, full of pictures I have taken, in the computer my husband and I built together. Oh, and of course, on the flip side, my vast collection of rare sneakers. :)

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

Doesn't home feel more complete with your treasures!!

Carrie

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

mmmm.. sounds lovely.

Carrie

carla morales · 1 year ago

my collection of taschen books...from fashion, design, to photography...i cherish those little books!

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

Danielle and I swoon over Tashen books, breathtaking.

Carrie

Larissa · 1 year ago

Right now I'm in the process of moving, so most of my possesions are in boxes and I'm sleeping on the sofa. What I love about that is the possibility. I have an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and memory from my current home, which I'm leaving, yet I have a hopeful excitement about my new one, starting from scratch and all that goes with it.

Stacy · 1 year ago

I cherish my young sons and their laughter that fills the rooms. Sometimes it's screeching and turns to screaming, fighting, whining types of sounds, but nevertheless cherished!

RecollectedStephanie · 1 year ago

Oh, those candles! Candles are a thing with me, too. The fire element ... the Norse sensibility of fire and ice ... pretty much, from Michaelmas (the beginning of the battle for light over darkness) until Easter (when light wins), there are candles burning in this house from sunset until bedtime. That's a cherished thing for me. (And thanks for the link!)

The other cherished things are the bookcase and harp my husband made for me, the heavy upright piano I learned on as a kid that now resides in my home, and the constant likelihood that I'll find another guitar pick when I'm cleaning up around here. Our books - in various languages. And our view - across the field to the fir trees, and above them to the mountains on the other side of the Gorge.

Leticia · 1 year ago

My husband and I just received a Kitchen-Aid stand mixer as a wedding gift. Last night we took it out of the box and found it to be very grand and intimidating. We're not very experienced cooks but feel better now hearing how happy you are to have one.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

Quan Yin statues are the gift I like to give to my preggy friends. And I had a statue of her in our living room for our home birth.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

An ALL CLAD roasting pan was the most romantic gift I ever bought my hubby (because I don't cook, but it's his passion.) We love knowing that we're going to have our All Clad stuff for decades.

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

This is what I say to my expectant friends: get a King Size bed, a great vacuum, and a veggie delivery service and you've got the basics for operational parenting. King bed = center of the universe.

Natasha · 1 year ago

morning sun on my balcony...a large closet all to myself...the bathtub...an open view...a kitchen I can work with...an office with doors...silence when i come home at night...even construction noise during the day (progress!)...and location location location. a lot to cherish in 463 square feet! reminds me of that quote, it's not the space but the life you live in it.

Daniel Gibbons · 1 year ago

Getting rid of stuff can be amazingly cathartic. The last two times we've moved house, we've been ruthless about eliminating not just junk but things that take up more space than they create value in our lives.

lezin bogan · 1 year ago

i cherish my pictures of my family. i have photographs of my grandmother, my aunt, both whom have passed away and those pictures are beautiful. i also have beautiful pictures of me and my son moments after he was born. he was the most beautiful thing that i had ever seen. those pictures were taken by my husband so that makes them all the more special.

Katie Laporte · 1 year ago

What i cherish most about my new home is..The wonderful array of plants and flowers we have gathered. I love watering them and making sure they are growing well and are always talked to.I couldnt love this place asmuch as i do with out my puupy and my partner, i really feel at home when were all here!!

Caroline Armijo · 1 year ago

I enlarged a photo from our wedding, which I gave to my husband for our first wedding anniversary. It is a close up of us standing on my parents' back porch. All of our family and friends are gathered on the ground below us. Every time someone comes over, I can point out family members or friends pick themselves out of the crowd.

Carly · 1 year ago

The skylights my husband installed as my birthday gift are the most wonderful thing! I work at home, and I'm practically solar powered, so that extra daylight is phenomenal. The greatest gift!

Laura Wershler · 1 year ago

What I cherish most about my home is yet to be discovered because we are about to embark on a wall to wall, floor to ceiling renovation. It might be the hardwood floors (my answer to Carrie's question during my SS session about what I'd like most to have if money were not an issue), the new kitchen or the simple soaker tub with back recline for reading in the bath, one of my favorite pasttimes. Or I might discover it's still the light coming in all the south-facing windows!
Simply Natural

Danielle LaPorte · 1 year ago

Hey Laporte! A puppy AND a baby?! Woohoo. Very Natural Bold.

Gina B · 1 year ago

My rescue cat 'Honey Buns' whom I look forward to seeing every-time I come home, my collection of rosaries because each one was bought to represent a specific time and place (they have become sacred bookmarks for special memories) and my extensive collection of scented body-wash & bubble bath. Hey a girl needs to have pretty smelling things to truly relax.

Ngonzi Truth Crushshon · 1 year ago

My space. Being who I truly am! Quiet time. my office where my personal schedule & travel plans are made. My soft bed. the African and African American art displayed in the living room. My family tree which tells me from which I've come. My kitchen where creations are made: some good, some not so good...but it's still mine to make! I have freedom in my home! To dance naked. Scream. Cry. Laugh. Celebrate. Dream.

Lindsey · 1 year ago

My yoga mat! When I'm on it everything is smoother: I flow and breathe and become present. Just looking at it in the corner of my living room brings a bit of peace into my busy life.

Jennifer Sage · 1 year ago

It is the same vintage as me (we are both 1940's from humble beginnings). Not to big not too small. It tells me my story but has space for others to feel comfortable and at home too. That is what I cherish the most is this space I have taken a life time to create welcomes others like a stylish but very confortable pair of slippers. A home not a house. If you want to look go to http://www.chezsage.memebot.com

Jennifer Sage
Bold Grace

Beth C. · 1 year ago

I cherish that my husband and father worked together to transform our house from a tacky late seventies house into as close to a modern loft-like space as you can get by taking it down to the studs and rebuilding it with their own hands. I cherish all of the antiques that we've received from great-grandparents', grandparents and parents that fit into our home and our lives as if they were made just for us.

Patsy Duggan · 1 year ago

I cherish the homeyness in my wee apartment and especially on days like today with the rain. I love to be cosy with the fireplace on and a good movie or book.

Shantel · 1 year ago

I look forward to coming home each day to relax. I have two boys so my home is always noisy, so I love walking into my room, closing the door and laying in my bed; its quiet and comfy. I love the picture table I created with all the family photos. I am very sentimental so photos keep me in touch of where we've been and it brings great memories to talk about over and over again.

Virginie · 1 year ago

A few decoration pieces, souvenirs from fun travels, have made me feel at home in all the different places I lived in in the past three years.

Stephanie · 1 year ago

My huge Venetian mirror. It's ornate but somehow neutral, it goes with everything, and it doesn't take up any space.

Other than that, I value negative space - the presence of absence.

And fresh flowers.

Kathi · 1 year ago

I cherish knowing that my home is where I keep the special things that belonged to family members I have lost. I have my mom's beautiful china and my grandma's gorgeous teacups, my brothers special things and letters from years gone by. I have our family history handwritten by my grandfather. All the rest is stuff. By my home houses my treasures.

Angie · 1 year ago

Two hardcarved black leather Bergere chairs I found at an antique store. I love the lines, the texture, the golden tone of the wood...Everytime I look at them, my soul smiles.

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

your wee apartment is lovely!!

Carrie

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

Bergere chairs are on my wish list!!

Carrie

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

my stereo system - nothing else. Everything else is stuff, my stereo is my connection with music, my favourite art form.

Shannon · 1 year ago

The scrapbooks I have been working on for my kids, but mostly for myself so that I will have them to look at when they are grown.

Jane · 1 year ago

This great painting of a Flamenco duet that I bought at an estate sale. Colorful and full of movement--it propels the style of the whole house.

kitchen aid part · 9 months ago

Home sweet home.I love everything in my home.