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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I’m not necessarily interested in decor, although interesting that this was the interpretation. More of an abstract question about what makes you feel at home. It could be anything from how you were greeted, how things were celebrated, rituals of the everyday, traditions like game night, favorite foods cooked often. I’m just curious what things stand out in people’s memories or what they do to create it for their kids. Of course joy and love... I guess I’m asking what the specifics of that are. For some people it will be joking around while cleaning up. Or playing games together. What makes you feel loved and happy at home — sometimes it’s a small thing. I think repetition is important.[/quote]

But you realize that our children are not us, right?  What I loved about home is not what my daughter loves about home.  You have to pay attention to your kids and see what feedback they give you.  [/quote]

I feel like this is a silly statement. It is objectively true, but I think that what you do to make your home feel welcoming matters and leads your kids to find their own points of enjoyment. But the tone you set for your family through your home is the seed of what your children love.

For me we cook a lot and listen to music a lot, always while eating/cooking. We dance a lot too. Our playroom is also very like, hard to describe but while it is separated from the living room it is not THAT separated. There is a visual link and a blending. And like other posters have said, we let the kid detritus seep in without being too worried about it. It is their home too.

Also I put up as many pictures as I can and take as many pictures as I can. When I walked through our house when we were shopping the family before us had walls covered in photos and just evidence of children was everywhere. The house was clean but it felt so lived in and like the family loved each other deeply. The feeling made me buy the house! So the constant blending and the displaying of artwork and photos and just the clear presence of children felt in every square inch. [/quote]

I’m the one on the first page who said you can feel the homes that are happy and secure and safe and where there’s lots of love. This is what I mean. That FEELING made you buy the house but another family in that house who didn’t love each other the same could have made that house have a totally different vibe. And no matter what house those families go to, they will feel homey and full of love. Vice versus- unhappy families carry a miserable vibe with them into any house too, no matter how objectively beautiful or how many toys there are. It is not items or rituals or anything like that. Its not stuff we all do like decorate for holidays. It’s an undefinable quality but some homes just have it because the families imbue them with it. [/quote]

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