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Hey, everyone! I want to share with you a really special book that I’ve had the opportunity to read Love the Home You Have
Tweet ThisI love the challenge for day 1:
“Your home is a gift and a blessing. Walk around your house and think about how thankful you are for a roof over your head….Try not to worry about all the material things you want to buy or change or improve. Instead, remember how blessed you are to be able to create a home full of memories with what you already have.”
I think that is a great challenge. As a blogger who loves houses and decor, I tend to get obsessed with the stuff in my home that I don’t like — the wall to wall carpeting and the fact that my home doesn’t have a true entry hall or a coat closet. But those flaws are dwarfed when I think about the love I share in my home with my husband and twin daughters — that’s when I truly feel blessed!
When my husband and I moved into our new home it was just the two of us, and about eight months later, our house became much more than a house, but a home, when our daughters were born!
Over the years, my husband and I haven’t made major changes to our house, but I do what I can to make the house reflect us and take care of our needs.
For one, I created a mini mud room area in our tiny front hall area by adding a coat rack, some shoe bins, a mirror and a DIY dry erase board.
I’ve also changed our living room from a beige and white mostly empty room (save for a piano, toys and two toy boxes) into a bright and sunny living room where my daughters and I love to listen to the piano, read, and watch the birds at the bird feeder just outside our living room window! Our living room has become a room that I truly love!
I’ve tried to create a warm and happy feeling outside my home by creating some sunny flower gardens! I first planted a sunny perennial garden along the southern side of my home:
Sunny Perennial Garden
Just a few days ago I extended and mulched the flower bed in front of my home, and I’ve been surprised at how much the mulch improves the garden — the red tulips in the garden really seem to “pop” now!
“Love the Home You Have Giveaway”
I am giving away one copy of “Love the Home Your Have” to one of Mom Home Guide’s readers! (U.S. Residents only.) To enter the giveaway, enter the Rafflecopter below. Good luck!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
we need to tear out some flower beds and move them to a better location – hot, sweaty work in florida!
Good luck, Lesley!
You are so inspiring me to get outside and get busy …If our weather would just cooperate I’d be out there right now. And what an awesome giveaway…Would surely Love It.
Hope you get good weather soon, Teresa! Good luck!
We are living in a very small home and I am struggling to find contentment in it. This book has been on my Amazon wishlist and I would love to win a copy. My biggest struggle right now is how to deal with my boys room.
Good luck, Robin!
I’d love to add one of those easy to install back splashes in the kitchen. I’d also like to get new hardware for the cabinets & drawers.
Both of those tasks are on my to-do list too, Lisa! I even have hardware for the cabinets — I bought the hardware two years ago and haven’t installed it yet. I am nervous about drilling the holes in the cabinets!
I’d like to get some kind of attractive container and slim table to put our shampoo, conditioner, etc, near our ONLY bathtub. With 3 girls in the house and all kinds of hair treatments, shampoos, shaving cream, etc., it’s a real challenge containing it all without it looking cluttered and messy.
Hi, Connie! I have tween girls and I know what you mean — it can be difficult keeping all those beauty products under control!
We are paper collectors, and I’d like something other than a filing cabinet – any ideas would be appreciated! 😉
Hi, Theresa! There is a lot of paper in my house, too! Perhaps you could also use some pretty baskets for storage?
Great giveaway! Love The Inspired Room! Thanks for the chance to win!
Good luck, Jamie!