Give yourself these five reasons to love coming home before you buy your next house. There are only five elements to look for in your next home which makes this task sound easy. But, here’s the thing. Realtors generally won’t be able to help you with these five elements. Only you will fully know when you’ve found the house that allows to check each of these items off of your house hunting list.

All it takes is these five to love coming home

Yet, it’s also a fact that to truly appreciate your house, you need to enjoy the floor plan or layout, space, decor, material and interior and exterior amenities. But, this may not be enough to make you love coming home. In fact, to truly love coming home, you need strong positive emotion connections to your house.


Choose the wrong house and you might not develop strong positive feelings for the residence even if you live at the property for a decade or longer. Strong positive emotions are what keep couples in a renovated house on popular television shows even when they are presented with a beautiful new house that meets all of their family’s lifestyle needs.

But, how do you get to those enduring emotions at home? What are the five elements that make you love coming home? Here they are:

• Balanced emotions – Even if you spend eight or less hours a day at home, you should feel emotionally balanced at home. This means that you should feel relaxed, less stressed, more hopeful and even cared for while at home.
• Pursuing passions – A good house is designed to make it easier for you to pursue your passions. For example, if you’re a painter, you might do well with a house that has an outdoor area that you could turn into a studio.
• Connectivity – Everyone in your family should feel like she or he is part of a uniquely connected unit. Although an open floor plan helps with this, so too does the energy in a house.
• Air flow – Good air flow is a must. Gain good air flow and you could live free of mold, rust and dampness.
• Dependability – The structure of the house that you buy should be dependable. The house should hold up during storms, a settling period or renovations.

Get the joy at home that belongs to you

You wouldn’t be alone if you felt confused as to why you don’t love your new house. Confusion around the dissatisfaction that you feel about your house can swell if you spent weeks searching for a new home. It only worsens if you spent so much on a house that you’re now in financial debt. Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way.


It is ultimately up to you to decide what makes you love coming home. That’s because no one knows you like you do. So, the next time that you go house hunting, pause and consider what you value most. Think about what deeply matters to you. Ask yourself if the house you’re seriously considering buying has the important five elements.