mella's Profile

My husband and I live in a plain, tiny, white aluminum-sided house with an ugly black metal railing and a crooked front sidewalk. We put laminate floors in the kitchen to cover the disgusting vinyl flooring and hope to pull up the the carpet in the rest of the house and refinish the hardwood floors someday. We have a few crappy pieces of furniture mixed in with some awesome ones since we can't afford to buy or make everything we want right now. We are slowly transforming our plain little house into a comfy, welcoming place and I would hope our guests aren't secretly judging us the whole entire time they're here.

No, it's not our dream house and there are tons of things we would change if we had the time and money. But the mortgage payment is less than most rent, we have a yard big enough for a huge veggie garden, and the space for my husband to work on our home improvements/furniture building. Life isn't an HGTV show. Creating a perfect home for yourself is a rewarding process that happens over many years, at least for most of us who have to be creative and budget for good design and improvements since we don't have unlimited funds.