Tiny House, Happy Home

Living in a very small home presents its own unique challenges. While I immediately fell in love with the character and charm of our older home, I do still sometimes have a hard time working around the dark, small spaces. Therefore, I am using home solutions week to share how I have tried to make my tiny house a happy home.

So, here we go, 4 tips for small home living:

1) Make it personal...
I found that putting small, personal details in unexpected places makes a big difference. In a little house, every spare space counts, so I wanted to fill each and every space with meaningful details...

Above is the small space next to our front door. We decided that as our family grows, we want to catalog each home we have lived in by surrounding our current front door with pictures of our previous home's front doors. So far, we are only in our second place, but eventually I am sure we will add to our collection!

And of course, making my home personal includes monogramming everything I can get my hands on! Including the knobs on our TV armoire.

2) Carve out corners of interest...
Like I said above, every spare space counts, so I've tried to take small corners and make them more interesting. Each of these represent previously unused spaces. Now they have been given some small purpose. I find that they extend the barriers of the rooms they are a part of and command attention.

3) Keep it fresh...
I never knew the impact having fresh flowers all around me made until I made room in my grocery budget for them. I never spend more than $20.00 a month (and that is on the HIGH end) on fresh flowers, but I think they make a huge difference. My house can feel very cramped and extremely dark at times. Besides the living room, there is not a lot of natural light around the house. Having the fresh presence of beautiful flowers really opens up the small spaces and gives you more of the outdoor feel. I always go with what is on sale, and if all else fails, I just bring in some weeds or greenery from our own yard!

Tulip Bundles: $1.99 Sunflowers: $2.99

Ranunculus: $4.00!! Tulip Bundle: $1.99

4) Surprise them...
No matter what you do, I have found it is important to be surprising! I mean, that is what we all try to achieve in this fun crafty blogging world, right? Oh, and the moment you have been waiting for...Here is where I become very honest about my obsession with numbering EVERYTHING!

That's right, I cannot believe my husband gave me the go ahead with gluing black wooden numbers to the doors in our dark, dark hallway. I am loving it. We get to sleep in room 3. It's a bit like a hotel, but whatever! This was previously the doomed, awkwardly skinny, dark hallway of doors. Now, its almost like a game show ("What's behind door number 2, Harry?" hehe). Okay, okay I'm kidding. But really, I do think it is a lot of fun!

I hope you will leave a comment and let me know what you think and where I can find your solutions to small room/ home living! Happy Thursday friends!