Jenny Does It's Profile

We have very traditional decorations, red, green and silver on the tree (excepting a few ornaments from our childhoods) and our red and green monogrammed stockings / tree skirt. It's funny because I love funky eclectic decor in general for my home, but something about the red and green makes it feel like Christmas to me. Plus we move every one to two years, so having the same things every year is a nice change of pace. Gotta have a real tree, I love going and picking it out every year even though it bums me out to kill a live tree.

One of my favorite tours ever, and I don't care for taxidermy unless it is obviously fake ( ceramic rhino head, etc). I love all the gingham and buffalo check, mixed with the modern. Amazing.

We use oats for our sensory box, and we do a small Tupperware container on the floor. My toddlers love it.

The birdseed idea is genius though, I think we will do that next.

Ten places in twenty five years. Five in the last seven years with my husband and our children, age six and under. To some extent, they are all home, but some more than others. Even though we only stayed a year or so on average in our last 5 homes, we always hang pictures, I always paint when allowed to, make changes, etc. I always seem to think we will stay longer than we do. I like treating each house like I might stay forever. We have been in our current home two years and have decided to stay for a while longer. It feels good, strange, but good.

@madampince, Yes! Floors!

It's so hard to get motivated to wash them knowing full well there will be a parade of sippy cup shaking toddlers walking on them within minutes.

Sigh.

My favorite source is Etsy. If you have something specific in mind, it usually exists.

Okay, so knowing full well I am in the 400's, I am commenting anyway.

Negativity is part of life; I think it's ok on a post like this, rather than on a real person's house tour. That's just mean spirited. It doesn't make you a bad person to not like certain things. I doubt that any of the people here would head over to someone's house and say, "Dude, your blinds are hideous, your cat stinks, and I hate your hunter green countertops." The inanimate objects are not going to get personally offended.

That said, I can't stand a dirty microwave. I got rid of mine because I felt like it was never clean enough.

Also, a TV in every room/more TVs than people. I like TV, too, but there is more to life.

This is a little off subject, but when I see someone texting while they drive, I get ridiculously angry; it's a visceral thing.

That sink is amazing! Love the after.

Add me to the camp of "paint your ceiling a color" people. It would be so fun to paint it yellow, or lavender, and get a couple of accessories in the same color.

I like to visit my parents; I think of that as a third space since I have my own family now. It's one of the few places I feel as comfortable bringing my little ones as I do in my own home.

Third spaces like coffee shops and libraries tend to be super overcrowded where I live in the 'burbs, since there are so few, and there is no anonymity when you live in your hometown and it can be hard to relax if you know everyone in the place from high school.

Sometimes, I miss small city living.

The only true splurge in my house was our oh so comfy king size mattress, which was the best gift ever from my inlaws.

Everything else was either Craigslist, or free, with the kids furniture purchased from Ikea or West Elm. We did spring for some entry level dining chairs from Room and Board, but they are already ruined and scratched four months later.

I have three kids six and under. Nothing that doesn't breathe is safe for long in our house.