Home.
A little tiny word with enormous meaning.
What feelings and emotions does the word ‘home’ evoke? What does it mean to you?
I’ve been thinking about this long and hard and I can’t think of a single straight answer. Home means so many different things to me. I can’t narrow it down to just one thing. So here are the first things that spring to mind.
Home is feeling safe and secure.
It’s pulling up outside the house and feeling relief and excitement wash over me, that I’m back in the place I feel the happiest.
It’s hearing my boy’s key turn in the lock — then hearing him whistle. Something he’s done ever since we’ve been together. That two-tone whistle is synonymous with home.
Home is our funny, beautiful cottage with it’s wonky walls and tin roof. And no, I’m not joking. It really does have a tin roof ;)
It’s sitting around the kitchen table, listening to the radio, with the warmth of the AGA enveloping us.
Home is snuggling in our giant bed, strewn with books and magazines — on a Saturday morning — with my three lovely boys (tiny boys and big, man-shaped boy).
Home is bimbling about in the garden, safely enclosed by mellow brick walls, listening to my babies laugh as they play around us.
It’s the excitement of choosing a tree from the farm, then decorating it with all of the trinkets we’ve collected over the years, with Christmas music playing in the background.
Home is the big Chinese cabinet that we’ve had in every house we’ve ever lived in. It’s our cats and chickens. It’s our house-plant called Gerald.
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Home is Wherever We are Together.
‘Home is Wherever We Are Together’ is really what home’s all about though, I guess. It doesn’t matter where I am really; as long as I’m with my little family, I am home.
I’ve designed the above image as a free printable, so you can print it out and pop it in a frame if you like it. Click on the link below to download the high res PDF.
What does home mean to you? Would you have written another quote? Let me know! I’m always looking for inspiration for new designs for my shop! :)
Caro Davies is a former art-director turned writer and content-creator, and editor behind UK lifestyle blog The Listed Home. She writes about home-related topics, from interiors and DIY to food and craft. The Listed Home has been featured in various publications, including Ideal Home, Grazia, and Homes & Antiques magazines.
Lovely post. I am definitely a homey person but loved to escape it as you appreciate it more then too! The printable is pretty and a little reminder too! #homeEtc
Yep I’m definitely a real homebird too! Although I agree — getting away for a bit makes you appreciate it all the more x
Open house policy I see mentioned up there…totes coming to stay! I have this very vivid image in my head of your house. I have no doubt that it is absolutely blinking beautiful! As you know, I only moved into mine a year ago and it needs a lot of stuff doing to it to make it feel like home. That said, there is still something so wonderful about putting my key in the door and opening into our lovely long hallway and then hearing the other half do the same (if he hasn’t beaten me home!). #HomeEtc
Yay! The door is always open sweet-pea — you’d be more than welcome to come and stay! ;) We still need to do a lot here too… kitchen… our ensuite bathroom… the roof… the windows… the list is endless! x
How beautiful is this? What a stunning post and what a great idea and how super kind of you to do the free printable. You are amazing! #HomeETC :) xxx
Thanks so much Kat — that’s lovely of you. I think printables are a lovely thing to be able to give to people. Nice to share :)
Lovely post and good use of the word bimbling! I love buying stuff for the home and moving it all around and filling it with flowers. But if my four boys weren’t there to rampage through it and mess it all up, it would feel pretty hollow. x
Yep — I totally agree. No point having a ‘show-home’ as mu mum would say! A home is a home because of the people in it; which includes all their noise and mess!! ;)
What a lovely post, and such a pretty painting too x #HomeEtc
Thanks so much Lizzie :) So happy you like the print too! x
Aw Caro what a beautiful post, home is so important to me too. Snd what is the most important is the people in it. xx
Thank you Sarah!! I’m such a homebird — love everything about pottering about at home. But it is definitely all about the people in it!
Lovely post! Home is definitely where the family are all together! :)
P.s. Love that you have a tin roof and an AGA! :) xx
Thanks Jenny! Haha! It sounds like I’m living in another century doesn’t it!! ;)
This is lovely, my home is my safe place, my families safe place. There’s always something to do or improve, the list is never ending, but it’s our home and I love it! X
Ohmyword — it’s endless isn’t it?! Like painting the Forth Bridge — once you’ve got to the end, it all needs doing again! ;)
Fab post and so lovely of you to include a print that we can download. I completely agree with your quote and can’t think of anything that says it better. Thanks for hosting this fab linky – I love it! xx
Thanks so much Jemma! You’re very welcome — if you email the PDF to a print shop, they can print it, or you can print it at home :)
Ahh this is a lovely post, and I think that last one really does sum it up – Home is wherever we are together – it is so true. Love the printable :-) #HomeEtc
Sabrina x x
Thanks Sabrina! I’m so glad you like it :)