THE POTHOS plants on the kitchen window seal are from your grandmother last summer. The welcome mat has little specks of dirt from your brother’s boots from his visit over the weekend. Your favorite Bath & Body Works candle is sitting lit on the coffee table. The receipt for the candle is acting as a bookmark in “Where The Crawdads Sing” on your nightstand.
Not every house is a home. We may move from Nashville to Shelbyville and then to Chattanooga, bringing your home along with you—even when the houses always change. Home is where you feel like yourself. It’s where you don’t have to ask for permission to dig through the fridge when you get home from work. It’s where you don’t have to take your shoes off at the door if that’s not some- thing you do. You get to balance wooden picture frames on nails in the wall—pictures you picked yourself.
Or maybe home isn’t about the decorations down the hall or the familiar snacks in the pantry. Maybe home is about the people around us: our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Life blooms like a flower in spring when we make a house a home. Our minds are at peace and our busy lives get to take a moment to breathe. Find ways to fill your spaces with love, joy, and happiness.
Shelbyville is full of people who want to make your life better by making your home better. From the living room to the front yard, this issue of Good News Shelbyville is all about exactly that: making a house a home. -GN