If you recently purchased a house, personalizing the space is essential so that you can make the house your home. A home is full of life, inviting, and reflects your personal taste. You may enjoy the location of your new house or the fact that it has enough bedrooms for the entire family and guests, but feeling like you are in a foreign space is not comforting or inviting. A home will hold all of your favorite things along with all of your favorite people. A home is that one place that you can retreat to for peace and quiet and sanity.
To create an emotional connection with your new house, here are 7 additions that will make your house a feel-good place that you can call home.
1. Display Experiences and Make a Statement
Making a house a home is all about personalisation and being reminded of the memories that make you happy. If you want your decor to have meaning, you can decorate an area of your home that is nostalgic. Use the postcards you have gathered or the trinkets you have purchased from your travels as decor. Display collections that make you happy in a unique way. Put your awards out in the open so that you can reminisce from time to time. This makes a statement and makes the house yours and only yours.
2. Put Up Your Art
Many people’s feelings are influenced by visuals. If you are sensitive to visuals, displaying artwork that affects you and blends with your interior design will breathe life into space. You do not need expensive fine art pieces to put up art that will evoke an emotional response to your surroundings. Even prints can do this at an affordable price.
3. Bring in Something That Has Been Passed Down
Do you have an antique table from your mom or an armoire that has been passed down generation to generation? Incorporate the piece into your design by mixing mediums and you will have something that is not just mass-produced in a factory. The spirit of your family will be in your home.
4. Bring Your Hobby Into Your Home
A hobby may not technically be an addition, but the work that is produced from your hobby can be used as accents to your space. If you love quilting, display finished quilts on your sofa or on a bench. If you love music, use your instruments as a conversational piece by dedicating a corner or a room strictly to music.
5. Flaunt the Photographs
You do not have to have professional photographs adorning each and every wall, but flaunting amateur and professional in different places throughout the home will tell the story of your family even before your family moved into the home. As you make memories in your new home, you can display more photographs.
6. Bring in the Good Smells
Are there smells that remind you of your old childhood home? For those who are not visual, the emotional connection is all about smell. Do not rely on sprays or plug-ins to bring homey smells to your house. Bring in flowers, candles, and even your cookie recipe and you will instantly feel a connection.
7. Bring in the Green
If you have white walls, it is easy for your space to start looking and feeling sterile. A sterile space will feel alien to you. One way to breathe life into your home is to bring in the greenery. Putting plants in your windows and corners around the home will make it lively and inviting. And having more plants in your home has one important additional benefit: cleaner air.
8. Paying for it
Personalizing your home doesn’t have to cost a fortune. You can spend as much money as you like and leave your online current account empty, but if you read the tips above, that simply doesn’t have to be the case. Making a home doesn’t have to break your bank – it’s all about making smart and frugal decisions. You can use your own artistic flair to decorate, get crafty and make things or simply use things that others no longer want or need. There is an argument to be had that simply buying whatever is for sale in Ikea is the lazy way out. And even then, there are ways to personalize even the flattest of packed furniture.
9. Bring the outside in
Think about your favorite place to visit and what makes that place so special to you. By taking small elements from this space and incorporating these elements into your house, it will become more a home. Decide what is important to you and what you feel connected to, and bring this into your house so that you can form an emotional connection to your home.
These are all beautiful pictures! I make my house a home by adding pieces of my favorite color, and pictures of my family. cheese right? I know!
I have a lot of my kids art up around the house (A LOT) and that makes my home feel “homey”.
We always send a postcard to home when we are on vacation. I will put them in a visible location now. Thanks for a great idea!
we moved into our house about a year ago and I still don’t feel like I’m made it into a “home”. We’ve moved so much over the past 7 years that It’s hard to finally be somewhere where it’s ok to actually unpack everything and decorate. It’s slowly coming along haha. I do love these tips! I’m starting to add more wall art into this house!
Very good decorating tips. I am in the process of decorating my spare bedroom. I think I have all your tips in the room – I will recheck.
Love the tips! I’ve been in my house 2 years and still need to do some of these! Thanks – Just pinned!
Those are all great tips. Art always makes a house unique.
Great tips. I really need to rearrange alot of my items to make them an impact.
We’re a military family so due to frequent moves this is something I’ve had a lot of practice at. These are all great tips. They are the things that make a house feel more like it’s yours and that let’s visitors know you better. The only thing I would add is to add color. We always paint a few of the rooms to reflect our personalities and taste.
I love the tip to bring in the good smells. There are certain smells that just remind me of home… I have quite a few plants in my home and they do make it feel more homey.
What great ideas! And no, you don’t have to break the bank to do it, either! I love walking into a home and seeing lots of pictures, and projects or hobbies happening all over. It makes a house a home!
I think displaying experiences certainly helps make a house a home. I have a card birdhouse decor which I decorate with cards and photos.
I think the things my kids have made through the years make it feel like home to me. I love their drawings and creations to this day!
Although I fought it at first I have my Great Aunts chest of drawers in my bedroom-it certainly does bring back memories. I also have the telephone table that was my Grandparents with a picture of me sitting at it framed above (I think I was about 3 or 4 at the time)–reminds me of their home and all the great times I spent there.
Thanks for these tips we have lots of drawings the kiddies have done in frames and up on the walls also lots of family pics on canvas i also have lots of ornaments passed down the family.
I love all of these ideas! What great tips! My husband and I have made a few art pieces, and they are the most commented on items in our home!
I hadn’t thought about the photgraphy we have captured over the years!
thanks for the tips
I love the idea of bringing outside elements inside your home. We love the outdoors and to bring driftwood, shells, pinecones, rocks, and other outdoor treasures inside really makes our house feel more homey for us.
I love these suggestions! We move so much and so often with the military that we rarely get to make any of our houses a home.
You’ve got some great tips here. I saw a show for a few minutes last night on buying a house in Hawaii, and the best ones were always full of beautiful green plants!
These are fantastic tips! My MIL is an artist and she paints pictures of the grandkids. We have a number of them up around our house to give it our own personal touch of decor. I love the paintings. And I”m taking a photo class and I will be getting some fun prints of the pictures I have been taking. I’m really excited to use them to display around our home.
These are some great tips for sprucing the decor in any home and updating the look of any room.
Some great tips – I love being able to display my items and also having art up on my wall – mines very dog oriented but I love it. x
Love the photography display ideas. I am so dying to redecorate!
I like the idea of displaying something about your hobby in your home. Thanks for sharing these tips!
These are all cute ideas. My biggest concern is that I’m trying really hard to have a cozy house that’s also clutter-free.
We’ve moved so many times in the past 2 years (and with a house fire), it is difficult to feel like ‘home’ again thanks for the ideas!!!
Great tips. I try to keep photographs of my family in all rooms, I agree it makes it homey..
I really need to improve by bringing more photographs into my home.Sometimes I just don’t like the clutter and the dusting and that is why I avoid doing so. I do love to bring the good smells into my house with lovely candles.
This is so helpful for me! I just moved in this past October & still in the process of making my home more homey 🙂
I love putting up art. I frame my son’s art that he makes. He feels so proud to have it hung in the house!
I love all those ideas! I bring my “business” into our home with our photographs.
I love these ideas… Love to make my home a HOME and love to decorate..thanks for sharing
Photographs really gives life to a home – these are totally lovely ideas, thanks for sharing!
I love the one about sharing your hobbies in the home. I really like to organize and design and it makes me feel great to look around and see what I have done.
These are definitely some great tips for making your house a “home.” I have been wanting to put more pictures up – I just need to get them printed first!
Like Courtney Pies said, I need to get the pictures printed. It would definitely liven up the place. I do have plants all over the place. They have been with me for many, many years.
What great tips to style your home. I need to follow the Flaunt the Photographs tip. I have tons of photos that would look so nice on my walls.
These are all excellent tips and I love the idea of bringing the outside in… Beautiful photos too.
Awesome Tips I ALWAYS Have Tons Of Photos On The Walls Everywhere Picture Of Family Make It So Much More Like HOME!!