The Concept of Home

Since my visit last weekend to Patina Farm for the book signing by French Country Cottage, I’ve been pondering the concept of home. Brooke and Steve Giannetti spent countless hours planning and designing their home, making it unique and special to them. Courtney Allison’s home is filled with romance in the French country style.

It’s hard not to return to Phoenix and look at our home with a more critical eye. What does home mean to you? I posted a part of this on Instagram earlier this week.

Home ~~For me, it is a soft place for our children to land. Where they can be themselves under any and all circumstances.  Where their friends are always welcomed. Where they know they are unconditionally loved.

A home that is filled with animals that wag their tails and greet you happily at the door.

Where warm and wonderful smells pour out of the kitchen.

A place you can wear decades old sweat pants with holes and no one is judging.  (No picture here, folks!)

A creative outlet for expressing my own style, collecting cherished items and finding comfort in the every day routine.

Where tears are wiped and boo-boos are kissed.

Where I can find solitude when I need it…..

and the company of family and friends at all other times.

Home is where things grow and change, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. Where learning and living is one big experiment.

Is our home perfect? No.

Is it magazine ready? Definitely no!

But life here is genuine and real with a goal to find the sunny side of life.

A sanctuary from the madness in the world.  Where simple, lovely, sincere, and elegant feed my soul.

Life at Bella Terra is our treasure chest of memories~~a place we call Home.  

What about your home? How is it special and unique to you?