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[RoJoHen]

^My furniture has always been sort of unintentionally eclectic because almost all of it has been handed down to me from other people. The only furniture I have that matches are my bedroom dressers, and that's because they're the set that my parents bought when I was a toddler!

 

[Holdfast]

^My furniture has always been sort of unintentionally eclectic because almost all of it has been handed down to me from other people. The only furniture I have that matches are my bedroom dressers, and that's because they're the set that my parents bought when I was a toddler!

Yeah, I have a few things I brought with me from the family home too when I moved out (my bed, a chair, a few other bits & piecies). But I actually bought a lot of new stuff when I bought this place. Which means a fair amount technically matches; it's just that it's the kind of generic country-looking-ish pine or oak furniture you find in any number of shops with small variations.

And my walls are all off-white, and the doors white. It's all really neutral. And even the carpets are an innocuous middling shade of blue.

The property itself has a lot of cool period features: high Georgian ceilings, full-length sash windows, etc, etc. And the curtains are those long thick drapey ones that can be tied back, so technically each room can be quite dramatic. I've just never felt the need to do much more with it.

The most colour is in the sitting room where the curtains are a sort of earthy russet mix of shades and the sofa suite is an earthy red too.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Interior design is one of my secret pleasures. My fiancée suspects that instead of looking at porn, I masturbate browsing the Maison du Monde catalogue...

 

[RoJoHen]

My roommate and I are shockingly good at hodge podge interior design. The dorms...our various apartments and houses...we are awesome at taking random pieces of furniture in any kind of living space and making it look great.

 

[Captain Ice]

I could live anywhere in the Southwestern US and feel at home culturally and geographically, but the people make the city of Phoenix home.

 

[RandyS]

I guess the closest thing to home is my Grandma's house. Other than cosmetic changes, it's been the same for the entirety of my life. I definitely feel "at home" there. I spent a significant amount of time there over the years. When I was little, it's where I would go after school until my parents came home from work. To this day it's where all major holidays are held. When the day comes that my Grandma is no longer with us, and if/when the house is sold as part of the estate, it is going to be really weird.

This is why I feel very lucky. I know EXACTLY how you feel. If you read my post earlier in the thread, you'll know that I too was raised in Grandma's house, and am now the owner. My grandparents have been gone for twenty years, and my mom has been gone for nine, but I still occupy the home they raised me in and plan to until my own death. In fact, unlike them, I plan to be buried here.

 

[tomalak301]

Home is the Greatest City on Earth: Los Angeles.

Even though I moved to Northern California, I still think of it as "home", in just the way you described.

I actually wrote a thread about this very thing after a recent trip.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=151450

LA, like Chicago has terrible traffic. Other than that, I really do enjoy going to Dodger games there, as the stadium is such a classic jewel in baseball.

 

[Lumi]

I sort of forgot... I do have another home.

Out in the woods. Any woods. If there are trees, I feel at home...

Even when it is night time? And you're by yourself? And there's no moon?

Well, I don't really want to be ANYWHERE alone at night when there is no moon.

So no.

 

[1001001]

Home is the Greatest City on Earth: Los Angeles.

Even though I moved to Northern California, I still think of it as "home", in just the way you described.

I actually wrote a thread about this very thing after a recent trip.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=151450

LA, like Chicago has terrible traffic. Other than that, I really do enjoy going to Dodger games there, as the stadium is such a classic jewel in baseball.

The Bay Area is not exactly known for its light traffic, either...

 

[tomalak301]

Home is the Greatest City on Earth: Los Angeles.

Even though I moved to Northern California, I still think of it as "home", in just the way you described.

I actually wrote a thread about this very thing after a recent trip.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=151450

LA, like Chicago has terrible traffic. Other than that, I really do enjoy going to Dodger games there, as the stadium is such a classic jewel in baseball.

The Bay Area is not exactly known for its light traffic, either...

No but I would rather take Bay Area traffic than being stuck on the 5 for like 2 hours, which has happened on numerous occasions.

 

[1001001]

LA, like Chicago has terrible traffic. Other than that, I really do enjoy going to Dodger games there, as the stadium is such a classic jewel in baseball.

The Bay Area is not exactly known for its light traffic, either...

No but I would rather take Bay Area traffic than being stuck on the 5 for like 2 hours, which has happened on numerous occasions.

I've been stuck in Bay Area traffic many, many times. I go down there a lot for work. So I guess it is more recent in my memory, although we did hit some traffic on our way out this last trip down south. I suppose it's like anything else, when you live there, you know the patterns, and the alternate routes.

The 5 is a minor hassle. Try the 405 someday. Starting at 2:00, it becomes the world's biggest parking lot.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

To the OP's question: not really, but I've made my peace with that.

 

[Me-Ike]

^ That is all very pragmatic and wise, but still, aw.
I hope you just step over the threshold of your flat/house one day and it hits you how much you like being there.

As for furniture, I love making my place personal! Obviously, it is not entirely doing the trick, but it's helping, I think. I have drawn pictures here and there, a table which I found on the street and carried through half the city (also using the bus), an armchair which was the only one I could afford in dire times.
If I had all the money I wished for, I'd still not change a thing.

 

[Captain Ice]

The 5 is a minor hassle. Try the 405 someday. Starting at 2:00, it becomes the world's biggest parking lot.

Ugh! The 405 at rush hour just plain sucks.

Don't forget about the 10 between the two though. I honestly think that's the worst traffic in LA.


Oh, and PCH on Saturday morning sucks too.

 

[An Officer]

I've never been much attached to houses and furniture/possessions. It's probably my nomadic heritage kicking in there. Also, we have moved dozens of times throughout my childhood and adulthood. I do become extremely attached to people though. I find it difficult to imagine living in one home for the rest of my life, maybe it will happen, who knows! As long as each home/neighbourhood is an improvement, I'm ready to move without too much heartache.

I do think I have grown attached to this city in general though... if I am away for more than a week, I get terribly home-sick, I've developed a lot of habits, tastes, and routines, that I find difficult to go too long without. In fact, I haven't left it for four years, the first three through choice (I missed the summer feeling we have here while I was away), and now through lack of opportunity. I don't mind too much though. I'm content, all thanks to God.

As to furnishings, I do have my own tastes (I like Regency era furnishings and deco, I've probably read too many period romance novels ), but haven't had much opportunity to go to town with them, I often give free reign to loved ones, as I am usually more flexible about these things and adapt quite quickly to different tastes. If that's what keeps another soul happy, I am ready to oblige. I do speak when something is just too horrendous to live with, but haven't found much opportunity to say so. Thankfully, I've never lived with someone with a penchant for safari orange, leopard print or other such eye sores.

Whenever I think of home, I think of my grandmother.

 

[MANT!]

I've had several places that seemed like "Home" to me, but maybe it's due to the fact that in my early years, we moved, on average, every 2 years or less...once we were 9 months from move-in to move-out due to corporate changes..we never had a stable "Home" until I was 12 (when my dad got hired by the state)..and after I left at 17, the parents remodeled the entire home, inside and outside..

I've even moved to the UK at one point..and felt at home there...but not "Home", one never forgets that you are from another culture.

Back in the states, each time I've bought a house, it seemed like "Home", until I sold it or moved out...and I realized it wasn't home..

Now I've a new job in a new part of the SF Bay Area to me, and the area is seeming much more like "Home" to me than any area I've ever been in before.. And Dear Wife and I are thinking about putting down roots... perhaps purchasing a "Stately Mant Manor"...

But will this be my final home?..I'm not sure..