What Is Your Home’s Story?

I have a picture of me and my little brother sitting on the floor playing in our new house. My parents decided to move from a rental house that they loved to a new home where they saw us growing up and themselves growing old together. Doesn’t that just sound idyllic? Even though my dad may not be there, when I walk into my mom’s house, I am reminded that this is home because there are so many stories there! That’s what our home’s story is – our family’s story. What’s your home’s story?

My mom lives in a cape cod built in 1930. When I pull up in the driveway and see the white window box below the living room window with flowers, I know that I’ve come home. My husband and I just sold our first house, it was hard. We had created our home’s story there. Together, we brought our first child home. Also, we brought our second dog and cat home there. When I pulled into the driveway for the last time and saw the Japanese maple in my rearview mirror, I shed a tear knowing that we had just closed that home’s story.

We now have an opportunity to write a new home’s story. We just started looking at houses. The real estate market is crazy out there but I’m looking forward to finding our forever home and taking you all along on the journey!

Do you like the story or is it time for a new chapter?

Clutter Muddles Your Home’s Story.

Your home should tell a story. It should be the story of you and who you are, what you’re fierce about, and how you love. Maybe, like me, you don’t intend on living in your current home forever; maybe you move around a lot and home is wherever you hang your hat. Even so, while our clutter definitely says something about us and tells its own story of our state of mind, it also masks the things that are closest to who we are. Is your home’s story of the places you’ve been and the people you love or is it telling the story of piles of papers?

Your home can tell the story of your style and how you present yourself to the world or it can tell the story of piles of mismatched clothes. You get the point. Our clutter muddles our home’s story.

Let Go So Your Home’s Story Can Progress.

In the past, I’ve talked about the types of clutter in ‘Types of Clutter & Defining What’s Become Clutter in Your Home’. The sentiment is that if you’re wanting to grow and transform into the next level of “you” then you need to be willing to let go of things that aren’t a part of who you are anymore.

Of course, our past, no matter how painful, is a part of our story. That doesn’t mean it has to be a part of the current chapter of your life. Filling your home with things that keep you stuck in the past cause you to play that part of your story on repeat. Not cool. Even so, your safe space, your sanctuary, where you live, should be reflective of you. The question to ask yourself is “What story is your home telling?”

Make Sure Your Home Isn’t Telling The Wrong Person’s Story.

There’s nothing wrong with accepting hand-me-downs or belongings that you have a use for. However, you want to make sure that this doesn’t get out of hand. The clothes in your closet and the furniture in your living room should tell the story of you, not your mom or sister.

Along the same lines, you don’t want your home to tell the story of someone you’re pretending to be. So many people fill their homes with things that hold no personal meaning or interest for the sake of impressing their neighbors or other people. If you can’t be yourself in your own home then where can you?

Your Home Should Tell A Story

Our home environments are powerful. This is where you curl up to escape the world when things are hard, it’s where you grow as a person and as a family, and it’s where you refill your energy. The power of your home space belongs to you and nobody else.

So, I encourage you to look around your home and truly acknowledge the story that your home is telling about you and your loved ones. If you feel encouraged to take the leap to start to transform your home, save your spot for the “The Holistic Home Refresh” and let me help you create your own holistic home today!

Love,