We love our homes. We all do, don’t we?
When we buy that place for our family – we’re looking for more than bricks and drywall. We may think carpet matters and “Applesauce Cake” painted walls are priority – but I think when it comes down to it we’re looking for something a lot more personal than carpet or paint or even **gasp**…
square footage.
We raise our families in them. We laugh. We cry. We share our meals and our boys climb our trees and our teenagers hang out with their friends in them. We collect our stuff and we celebrate Birthdays and Christmases and connect with our friends and family. The sounds of our music resonates through our homes and life dances there.
When we buy a house -
We’re looking for a home.
When we look for a home -
We’re looking for a feeling.
A warm, welcoming, cozy feeling.
From the first step in that brick and mortar house – when we are looking for a home to buy – we’re all tuned into that deeper connection inside that says either
“Not really us…”
OR
“Now this is home”
It’s not easy at all to define.
But its very, very simple to recognize.
It’s that deep sigh-
The feeling
That lets your body relax and your heart melt ♥.
We realize this truth.
But sometimes, as the dance of life leads, the family must move on. The home that once was a perfect fit for their life, it just doesn’t fit exactly for them anymore. It is time for another family to dance in, feel the feeling, and begin their own dance of life there.
So what happens when you leave a home, full of warmth and memories? You hope another family will feel the feeling and it take as their own, right? But the challenge lies when your life dances out, and the house is left to sing its song of welcome all alone. It’s harder for brick and mortar to sing when left alone. Sometimes the vacant walls echo. Or the harshness of the overhead light bounces off the empty corners. For some people, it is just plain hard for them to imagine warm and cozy in cold and empty.
That’s what I love about living as a Resident Home Stager. I know this home was loved. It became a part of a family’s life. But when they left, the shell of the house was left lonely and bare. I love bringing the life. I love knowing my dance of life will open up the hearts of another’s and they will find the perfect home that lets them “feel the feeling”.
As I said earlier -
It’s not easy at all to define.
But its very, very simple to recognize.
Which would you want to dance your dance of life in?
