Decorating home to create your favorite place to be is important in our lives.
If you’re an expat living away from your home country, here is a blog post on “How To Stay Happy Overseas”. One of the points I listed is a home as a sanctuary. I believe that it is one of the most important elements for your happiness in a foreign environment.
Home can be an instrument to enrich your family life, foster friendship, and promote creativity. If you’re the one who takes charge of decorating home, that is a big responsibility!
What Home Can Do For You
Life overseas poses many challenges. Through my experiences living abroad and creating home every time we move to a new place, I have learned that creating home where my husband and our children can feel relaxed and be themselves help with our happy life as a family.
Have you really thought about what roles a home as a place to live has in our lives?
It’s not a mere place to eat & sleep.
Home is a shield to external stress factors that being a traffic, noises, pollution, crowd, human relationships, and negative experiences.
Home is a place where you can reset yourself: a place to rest our minds and bodies.
Your home is a reminder of who you are.
Decorating Matters
Understanding how home plays significant roles in our happy life, hopefully you will be motivated to decorate your home to achieve your goal, whatever that is.
For that, home decorating needs a direction.
We are visual beings. Since we process information through our visual sense, having aesthetically pleasing environment at home positively affects our minds.
We all humans need a sense of belonging.
Home can provide you with that sense of belonging.
To know what makes your heart skip a beat and to be able to always come back to your home where you can wrap yourself with the feeling of warmth and comfort gives you the sense of belonging.
When we integrate the direction and the sense of belonging with interior decorating, that creates a home with a harmony for your heart and mind.
Not all of us have the budget in our lives to create a dream home that celebrities and social media influencers do. Many of us who live in a rental home face many limitations to what we can do with our living spaces, but there are things that you can do with a limited budget. You just have to be creative.
I can keep going on and on, but I would like to end this post with the fall decorations that I had in our home in Mania this year. As we live in a tropical climate without the fall season, having those reminders of the fall was important to connect with our home countries: the U.S. and Japan. I hope you will enjoy the photos.
Dining Room
Living Room
Front Foyer
Our Fall Decorations 2019
I know that it is a bit late to post these photos since it’s already December. However, these photos have more meanings to me because my favorite green pumpkins (shown in the photo below) were broken by my son. It happened on a day before I was planning on putting away the fall decorations. How ironic!
I was extremely disappointed to say the least. For a moment, I thought about glueing the pieces together, but they would look obviously glued and I didn’t see the point. I had to let them go and put them in our trash bin.
I find it very difficult to find fall decorations when living outside of the U.S. On top of that, the green pumpkins are no longer available at the store, Target, where I purchased them several years ago in the U.S.
You know what, though? Things always have an end. I was lucky enough to own these for a few years and I did enjoy them every time I pulled them out of a fall decoration bin. I tried to think that these broken ceramic pumpkins took bad lucks away from my family.
The incident reminded me of what is more important in my life: My family’s safety and health.
The ceramic pumpkins were just decorations. It’s all good.
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