Pin it Forward : What Home Means to Me
In my life of 28 (almost 29) years, I have called 17 various houses and apartments “home”. That is an average of 1.78 homes per year! But, as you can see from the chart above, I have lived in most of these homes in the past ten years!
So, when I decided to join in on Pin It Forward, a blogosphere ring-around-the-rosie collaboration between sfgirlbybay and Pinterest asking 300 bloggers to blog about “What Home means to Me” through words and images, my first thoughts were about my literal homes and the people I have shared them with.
8 Homes in Tennessee (2 in Hendersonville, 1 in Collierville, 5 in Knoxville), 1 Home in Denmark, 4 Homes in Oregon, 1 Home in Thailand, 1 Home in China and 2 Homes in California. The square footage has ranged from 200sf to 3000sf. They have been on three continents. I have shared 4 with family, 7 with roommates, 2 with no one and 4 with the love of my life. Five have been in enormous apartment complexes. One was extremely decadent. One was over 300 years old.  Seven have been within walking distance to a grocery store. Two of them were on campus. And I do not know who is living in any of them any more (except my current home, of course)!
Hendersonville, Tennessee : At Christmas
Collierville, Tennessee : At Christmas
Hendersonville, Tennessee : The house I grew up in
The University of Tennessee: My side of the dorm room
The ladies that made living in the dorms better than I ever expected
We shared some good times in our first off-campus apartments
Copenhagen, Denmark : Our flat in Christianshavn
My Partner in Crime throughout Europe
Knoxville, Tennessee : The house we called our own
And these were the ladies I shared it with
Beaverton, Oregon : My Uncle's bachelor pad that I crashed!
I'm sure he never imagined I would move in with him 23 years after this photo was taken!Â
Portland, Oregon : The first apartment I had all to myself
Portland, Oregon : The apartment I never dreamed I would live in
And she is the one that shared it with me.
Portland, Oregon : Perhaps the last apartment I will ever have all to myself
Chiang Mai, Thailand : Our first apartment together
We spent a lot of time at that table!!
Shanghai, China : Another apartment I never dreamed I would live in
San Francisco, CA : The one that gave us time to settle in
San Francisco, California : Finally, our very own Home Sweet Home
Many of the Pin It Forward bloggers are designers, and have filled their Pinterest Pin Boards with the most amazing eye candy!! In addition to the above photos, I have filled mine with a little bit of my own. So, if you haven’t already heard of Pinterest, be sure to take a gander. It is the best bookmarking site I have found for inspiration images, and I recommend that you give it a try. The boards that have been created will amaze you, and you will then want to have an account of your own.
Screen Capture of my Pinterest Boards
The final piece of Pin It Forward is that I would like to literally, Pin it Forward (and backwards!)
Yesterday, Casey Keasler of the K.I.D. Collective posted a great little story about how she came to call Denver home, and how Portland will soon be her new home. The funny thing about Casey is that she also went to the University of Tennessee AND she was in my sister’s interior design class. I reconnected with her via Pin It Forward, and her design blog is now one of my favorites.
Tomorrow, Kate and Jack of the Union Jack Creative will be posting about what home means to them. They have a wonderful eye for photography, design and all things whitty, so check it out!
To see the entire schedule of all 300 Bloggers, click the icon below!!
Hey Jamie,
Thanks for the great post. I loved the graph showing all of your homes – it’s amazing that you had an opportunity to live in so many parts of the world! Your website is beautiful, especially the little design you made in the corner. It reminds me of some of the great prints by dan funderburgh (http://www.danfunderburgh.com/#) – who i LOVE.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your post and pinboard and I hope that you can make our Pinterest meetup in SF in a couple weeks!
– Ben