When does a new home begin to start feeling like such?

Give it a week and it will feel like home. One week gives you just enough time to feel comfortable and fill your home with the aromas that you enjoy.

I used to move an awful lot. I found putting my paintings and pictures up and putting my personal things around first really helped make me feel at home, but as to the smell and the sounds, that can take some time. I used to average one move a year, sometimes I would spend two years in one place, sometimes move a couple times a year. I have spent the last 15 years in the same place so I hardly remember what it was like to move around so much.

After you realize you’re not going back.

@boots it’s that simple to you? Shesh, lucky!

@ohmyword I’ve moved once and that’s the thought that got me to suck it up and realize that the place I’m going to relax the most is in that place.

Once you put your personal touch on it. Make sure you unpack your collections, your favorite books, (basically your favorite stuff) and get it out in the open. Also, the first really good nights sleep will have you waking up feeling at home. Good luck!

Mark your territory, as a dog would.
It does wonders.

@Sarcasm hm, I’m considering this… definitely. I don’t know how my boyfriend will feel about that though

You two could make an afternoon out of it. A nice bonding experience!

It never occured to me that there would be an adjustment period. My Dad was what they now call a house flipper. He bought a house in September, added a bathroom and upgraded the kitchen, then sold it in June. We spent every summer in a motel. I moved every year from the age of 6 through the age of 16. Every house became a home from the day we packed our bags at the motel, and moved them into the latest house.

Once your own smells get into it.

Once you get your dishes in the cupboards, your towels in their drawer or shelf, your furniture arranged as you want it, things will become familiar. Having personal things hanging on the walls & sitting around, it’ll become you. When you can easily move in your kitchen & bathroom by knowing where everything is, then it’ll be home. Give it time. You’ll get there.

Your house will become your home once you’ve messed it up and had to clean it. And once you’ve come back dead tired and passed out on the couch once or twice.

Once when you start walking into the place with other things on your mind other than “this is new”? It takes me about a week or so.