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[muji]

I exist! I swear! ...Maybe!

In honor of me having just moved and not being able to find anything now - what do you require to make a space a home?

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[innerbrat]

A bed and a dedicated place for my laptop.

[wanderlustlover]

I am so right on board with this.

There are two things in my five crates of stored stuff I need first, last and always when I move and when I set up and they will always be only this -- my bed and my laptop.

*high-fives*

[sdelmonte]

We lived pretty bare bones the first few weeks of marriage. We had beds, a table, a couple of chairs, a TV and VCR, and a computer on the living room floor. And phone service. We did okay for about a month till the furniture started coming and we figured out what was what.

OTOH, when we moved, I dedicated a day to unpacking everything in a hurry. I like being organized.

[yakalskovich]

A place to put my computer, some sort of tea cup (mug) of my own, and room for a small stack of books. I can't exist more then a day or so without a small stack of books, no more than three or five, but one is not enough.-

[stillbecoming]

I read that as "to make a space home."

Oxygen, faster than light travel, and my computer.

[ashen_key]

Judging from when I had my own apartment - books and soft toys. I put my books on the floor, unpacked bunches of soft toys around the place (I don't normally have them at my room at my parents' place)...and it felt like home.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

A kitchen, a bed, clothes, a computer and, corny as is it, my family.

ETA: Actually I'll have to add four walls and a roof to this. Last summer I had the floor redone in my house and spent a week in the back yard camping out and was ready to kill by the end.

[venusadept_2]

It has to be, in some definable way, mine. When I went off to college and lived on campus for a couple of semesters, I specifically didn't think of the dorm as "home", because it was a temporary rental thing and the place wasn't all that familiar. Whereas, in New Mexico, not only is this a more permanent, stable arrangement, but one of the first things we did was customize my bedroom with paint. (Still want to replace that ceiling fan with one that doesn't look like it's going to drop a baseball the size of a bowling ball on my head, but as long as I don't look up I can mostly ignore it.)

And really, some kind of perception of ownership is all that I really need. I've noted on several occasions that I spread out over the available space; what I realize less often is that that means I can do anything I need in whatever space is available.

[aisforamy]

BOOKS AND LOVE. And a comfy place to curl up with them.

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

My stuffed alligator, my coffee mug, and the right side of the bed.

[shinyhappygoth]

Internet, some randomly-selected decorations (posters, pillows, action figures, doesn't really matter) and a comfortable mess.

This is my RL opinion, not Ellen's. I'm too lazy to change journals.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Somewhere to sleep, somewhere to sit, somewhere to prepare my food and eat it- as far as I'm concerned home is where they eat your food.

[gorgonfondness]

You know, I'm not really sure. When I first moved into this apartment 2 1/2 years ago, it already started feeling pretty homey even before we were done unpacking. Just going through the process of inspecting it already made it feel like mine.

That and my friend Christine being there. At one point, we took the barstools that are included, sat ourselves down on the floor with them, and used them as steering wheels for a "race". XD

Also, the fact that I can rearrange it whenever I like makes it feel pretty homey. That freedom I have to change where everything is makes me feel like I'm at home.

[ceitfianna]

Natural light, place for my books, comfortable bed and a working kitchen.

Its my last Wednesday class today and I'm almost finished with one group project.

[accipiterpuella.livejournal.com]

Off topic, but oh my GOD that icon. Is that a dress made of fabric patterned on Monarch butterfly wings?

[ceitfianna]

I love this icon. Someone posted the base of it and I added the text.

Sadly I don't know more about the dress in it other than its amazing.

[moriendi.livejournal.com]

Information here (http://www.dressaday.com/2006/07/luly-yang-butterfly-dress.html).

[ceitfianna]

Thank you, its wonderful to know where its from.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I've begun to notice that the list of things I "need" for a home gets longer the older I get. A home would need a place for my stuff, a place for my zoo, and a place for me. It doesn't need to be sterile, far from it in fact, but it can't be a place where I'm afraid to invoke the 3 second rule.

Also bathmats, because now that I'm over 30 I live in daily fear of slipping, falling, and breaking my neck coming out of the shower.

...

Don't ask.

[cameoflage.livejournal.com]

It has to have a bed, walls and a roof, and a bookshelf. When my dad rented a cabin for us (except Mom -- she couldn't get off work for the trip) in the summer of 2007, being able to unpack the books I brought onto a bookshelf went a long way toward making the bedroom I was occupying feel like a home. Knowing I would be IN that room for long enough to make unpacking a reasonable decision had a lot to do with that, too. I think I could apply the same principle to putting my clothes in a dresser. And of course I'd need internet access if I'm going to be there alone or for longer than a week or so.

For it to feel like MY home rather than a space someone else grants me, it has to be a place where I can go to the bathroom and the kitchen without leaving my space, i.e. walking through a common area. Having my only exposure to annoying people be through the walls/floors, rather than having to live with them, also helps.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

My stuff on the walls. I can accept any space as mine, but it has to have my posters on the walls. Those are my home.

[hey35andholding]

Books, a wifi connection, chocolate, close associates, and the air I breathe.