SOLD: Beautiful Happyzine

The house I live in, which I’m renting, brings me great pleasure.  It has everything I need and more.  It has an eager little heat-pump, which, at one press delivers me enough warmth to fill my entire house.  It offers me gallons of hot water at the twist of a tap.  It offers me power, shelter and a sense of security, for very little money really.

On the other hand, there are two things about this house that I would like to change.  Although I think heat pumps are wonderful, I also think they’re a little short-sighted as they’re not really built to deal with power cuts.  Therefore I’m more in favour of a fireplace, and where I live (in the country) this is fine, though I understand that in some areas the build up of smoke becomes a little too much.  Actually, I think having both a heatpump and a fireplace would be the ideal as you can’t beat the instant, affordable heat of a heat-pump, nor can you ever replace the direct heat of a blazing fire.  Also, having lived in home that I partially owned, I do prefer the feeling of ‘owning’ my home, it’s even more secure.  But having gotten those two points off my chest, I still love it here.

It’s not a big house, perhaps it’s a medium sized house, actually the owners of this place (who are my dear friends) describe it as small.  It has two bedrooms, plus a small study (from which I officially run Happyzine, though more often I end up working on the lap-top in the living room or on the deck) and a laundry area off the kitchen.  It also has great, low maintenance gardens filled with nutritious compost that pump out food.  It more than meets my needs, and my family’s needs, and when I step inside I feel safe, warm, nurtured.  I have many ten out of ten moments here, such as getting into bed at the end of the day, in my warm, small (though it feels large) house.

And so today I salute our homes, whether they be tiny, gigantic, ‘unique’ or  ‘normal’ (whatever that means for you).  The most important thing about any home is that we feel safe, relaxed and able to be ourselves in them.  If you’ve got that, it doesn’t matter what your living space looks like.  And when we feel good in ourselves, more good stuff happens, which inspires even more good stuff to happen, and so it continues … this is the top reason for creating a loving, relaxed living space of any shape or size.

I’d like to introduce you to this video I just found on Yes! magazine’s website. It’s about a woman who sold her large house and down sized to a much smaller, portable, eco-efficient home.  Also, here’s the related article on this Yes! page.

I would like to invite you to tell me about your homes.  What makes them work for you, and how are they special?

Today’s rating: 10/10

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