Does your home help you enjoy life?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31046)
United Kingdom
March 30, 2009 3:19pm CST
My home is on the edge of a coastal town and behind it the fields stretch for miles. So my house is in a very pleasant and quiet position. I like my bathroom suite very much because I have a deep bath that is full length. I like my lounge furniture because it is Mexican in style and reminds me of my traveling.
In which way does your home help you enjoy life?
Is there anything in your home that causes you any stress?
Do you have enough storage in your home to keep you happy?
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23 responses
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
31 Mar 09
somehow yes it helps" a bit" we are living in the middle of the city and no garden but still a nice area to live because all the important are easy to go like hopspital,shop,grocery and pharmacist all what we need is easy to walk to save petrol
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@yspring (272)
• China
31 Mar 09
yes ,i love my family very much,and it do help me enjoy my life.which i mean not for the material in my home.i thanks my parents for they tell me what should i do in my life when i am at home or in school or in public.wherever i live i will enjoy my life ,that is due to my good family!!
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@kunking (1118)
• China
31 Mar 09
Hi,there! currently i live in a rented house that isn't owned by me. but there are always something that i decorate my room and make me happy. for example, i put some potted plants on the windowsill. these green beings can make me relaxed and be hopeful about life. lol...have a nice day and happy mylotting!
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@eagle_f15 (1827)
• Malaysia
31 Mar 09
Yes my home definitely helps me enjoy life. It's 700+ sq ft apartment with 3 rooms and 2 bath, a separate kitchen sharing the laundry area. There's nothing that i can find that causes me stress in my home. My husband and I use the main room as our bedroom, the second room is for now is a store room which will be converted to a baby room when the baby comes and the 3rd room which is the smallest of all is converted into an office. both of us work from home. there is no stress in our home only that we both need to know when to stop working as we don't have a regular clock in and clock out time and we sell stuff online so when there are oversea buyers sometimes we have to work till late at night because we need to communicate with the buyer from another country with a different time zone. I just love every part and everything in my home - it's a place to come home to rest and relax after hot days of errands out on the road. At the moment we have enough storage space but with when we have kids in future I think we need to think of expansion.
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@Hanan_x3 (294)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Not much in my home makes me happy.
The only thing about it that makes me happy is my balcony.
I sit there late at nights just thinking.
I have a big family so theres not much space for privacy.
But the balcony is a good place.
My home doesnt make me happy because of the location.
The kids on my street drive me nuts.
there are so many of them.
But in the summer time its amazing.
@PinkyPosh (226)
• Canada
31 Mar 09
The home in which I grew up don't have any of the features you explained or even anything that is worth mentioning. But still I love being there.
I had travelled countries, and lived in many wonderful places in the world. Still, my home is the palace for me and I feel being in heaven when I'm there. I feel secured and enjoy every moment there. Though I sit in the best picnic spot or the best part of the place, I miss my home.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
30 Mar 09
Everything in my house is making me happy. I am happy with my yard, so my dogs can go out many times during the day. My house is not big, but big enough to make me happy. I feel good when I am at home. My animals have a lots of space to run all over the house. They rule the house, because I am away for most of the day.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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31 Mar 09
My bathroom is one of the most soothing places for me to go. I've wood-cladded the bottom part of the walls and blue-washed the wood like water. The bath is cladded in and the basin housed in a blue-washed wooden unit. The top is painted with a yellow, textured paint to look like sand, and the ceiling is blue, with raised clouds on it. I have two beach pictures on the walls, and a big mirror with three halogen lights illuminating it, and the converter for these lights is housed in a bathing hut, which tops the mirror. I have fish, lighthouses, some of which hold tealights, shells, bathing huts, rowing boats and wooden sailing boats as ornaments, and a pair of dinghy oars on hooks on the side bath panel. Also, my sister gave me a windchime, which is a seagull, and shells, and tubular metal chimes, which I hung by the window, over the bath. The net curtain is sea blue and the outer curtain, yellow to match the sand colour. There's pot pourri and essential oils in there too as I use the oils in the bath. That's my favourite place at home.
Brightest Blessings, my friend.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
1 Apr 09
No, that's why I want to move. I need to live somewhere where they are lots of wheelchair accessible transport, an airport, activist friends, places to volunteer, work, and be fulfilled. I know I'll be happier somewhere else. That's why I'm looking for a new apartment.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
1 Apr 09
It can. I do like my new house. The major stress about it is, as someone who frequently finds herself running this house as a member of a family of four, I get stressed out about how little initiative anyone takes around here. No one wants to clean and often it's a struggle to keep this place any semblance of neat or clean...especially being so rural. It's not...TOTALLY awful, but it bothers me to have to struggle to maintain things.
There's plenty of storage, it's just that no one wants to use it.
Things that help? I've a shelf overflowing with books, a nice kitchen, a nice sized living room (with a couch that sucks you in and makes you so comfortable you find yourself falling asleep!), a HUGE basement, I've a laptop I can play dvds on in my room if I want to shut myself away, we've enough land to farm on, a deck to go out and sit on for fresh air, the roads're all country roads and I can walk out among the ancient trees...and there's so much variety to the wildlife here.
I'm thinking...more than any other place I've lived, this place might actually FEEL like home to me.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I only have a 1 bedroom apartment so I don't have as much room as I like to have.
My favorite is my sectional sofa it takes up most of my living room but I like it.
It's hard to change the furniture around because it only fits so many ways.
I have a nice little balcony that has sun all summer long and the wasps like to fly by and scare me.
I like my little place and it's reasonable.
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@zhuhuifen46 (3483)
• China
2 Apr 09
Wherever you travel, it is home that gives the best comfort. I have a townhouse in the suburbs, you remember? It is three storied, overlooking a little garden, where I take leisure at weekends. The best thing is to walk around the neighborhood between houses, by lawns, along streams, in woods, which takes about an hour, relaxing to heart and to eyes.
@740xing740 (124)
• China
2 Apr 09
My home is on centre ciry and air very fresh.More people wish to go my city live on my country.Especially old people.
I think the most happy what is my families healthy.
@mhil84 (182)
• Philippines
10 Apr 09
A Home can't be called a home if it doesn't make one's happy or enjoy life. In my case, yes! every part on my home is very important it can also show how or what kind of person you are. A home doesn't really need to be huge or big time one. A peaceful, quite, and simple would be enough to be called home for me, as long as im happy and comfortable with it, yes it helps me enjoy life.
@viking888 (390)
• Philippines
31 Mar 09
Our home is our abode both of the body and our spirit.
Try talking to your house. Praise it, love it and speak to it. Your house then will not only be your Home, but your protection from everything around you. It becomes also the abode of you spirit, because it also has it's own spirit. Did you ever think of that concept as bewildering? Nope. It is nature's way. Everything around you, whether living of innate, have spirits that co-relate to you, react with you, live the day to day events inside that house with you. Why? Because it is part of you. It becomes a home when all relationships within that house are in harmony, in peace, and full of love. Try it the next time you are alone in your house. Make it your home. Talk to it and love it. It will respond by giving back lots of love and good vibrations not to mention good luck in both financial and professional life.
@xXxMikesWifeyxXx (3072)
• United States
31 Mar 09
No my home is not really that comfterble.. I to like you have feilds behind my place but then I have to deal with feild mice every winter haha. and the extirminator aint cheap, thats for sure.lol
I think if my home had a sun room... Then I would be VEARY comfterble.lol
@Amber4106 (540)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I really like my home and the things that I have furnished in it. Each room has a different feel to it, and offers comfort to me in some way. If there is anything that causes me stress in my home, it would be the basement where the dog sleeps. She seems to think that she doesn't have to go outside to do her business and I think that that is totally unacceptable. However, she's not my dog, so anything that I say about her just goes in one ear and out the other.
We have plenty of storage space also. The upstairs has three large bedrooms and four walk in closets. I use those closets for storage rather than paying for a storage shed. It gets way too expensive and is much more convenient to have those belongings right here at home.
@sysdexlicwriter (1619)
• United States
31 Mar 09
We are tucked into a woods and there is a lot of nature around us. I like that a lot. I really enjoy seeing all the woodland creatures.
The only thing that causes me stress is when things break and you have to try and find someone to repair them.
I am the storage queen. I have learned that in a small place you must go up and not out. I like cupboards to the ceiling, shelves in the garage, pantry, closets, bookcases, etc. A place for everything and everything in it's place.