Life Lessons from a 50yo Home.

Simply by their size and layout, inclusions and exclusions, our homes have the power to be wise teachers of important life lessons.

Have you noticed how much homes have changed in the last fifty years? I reflect on the modest three-bedroom, one-bathroom home my parents purchased when starting their family in 1972 and how vastly different it is from the homes built today.

My folks still live in that same home, with the only addition over those years being a rumpus room and bedroom following the arrival of kiddo No.4 - Me!

Nowadays, Mum and Dad’s twelve grandkids can't quite fathom how all six of us lived there with just one bathroom and one toilet. But we did. And for the most part, excepting some minor scuffles and unsolicited noogies, it was perfectly fine.

Our home's minimalist layout, compared to today's norm, accommodated our needs without excess. It was enough. And I reckon that ‘enough-ness’ is the key to creating homes that promote learning life skills. Sharing space and amenities encouraged the learning and practising of life skills through the course of any day.

And it also facilitated a closeness that we still share.

With build costs rising, many homeowners are reconsidering the size or extent of their build or reno. But this doesn’t need to be viewed as a compromise, but rather a way to build better. To build a home that better supports your intention for raising great humans instilled with a bucket load of invaluable life skills. Who wouldn’t want that?

Over the next five weeks, we’ll explore five teachings homes with ‘enough-ness’ can provide.

First cab of the rank next week; Lesson 1. Communication.