Our unfinished living room
I think a lot about what our home should be like. We've only lived here a few months and although it's our home, there's still room for improvement. Around Christmas and before, during the Advent period, the decorations and the Christmas tree gave the illusion of a house full of feeling. It was. But now it's empty. The pictures of the family we left behind are not yet on the wall, the living room is still made up of pieces and does not form a coherent whole. The kitchen and bedroom, with their clutter, feel like home. But we haven't yet managed to convey our personality to our home. We are still strangers.
The task is made more difficult by the fact that I don't know where to start, I don't know DIY stores, and I don't have the financial resources to do a complete renovation. I can get a lot of things second hand very cheaply or even for free, but I can't get most things on my own. I would need two more helping hands. I miss my parents every day, but at these moments I miss them enormously. They always have a solution for everything. They have been helping each other and their children for 40 years. I am proud of them and I love them very much.
But I am not proud of our home yet. The living room is both a TV room and a study/study room. The walls are all white, nothing in it apart from hanging two pictures ad hoc. No curtain rails, no curtains or carpets, just two "guest beds" which don't fit in at all. I hope to have the chance to do the living room soon.