31 Home Journal Prompts for a Cozy & Happy Household
Try these simple yet fun home journal prompts to better your home. They’ll help you imagine ways to make your home look and feel its very best! {Free PDF included!}
Have you thought much about how to create a beautiful, calming home environment?
Making your home a sanctuary away from the stress of the world is a worthwhile project. For yourself as well as your family and anyone who visits.
You don’t need tons of money or time to create a happy and cozy home you enjoy. Anyone can take small steps to begin improving their home. Homemaking and many forms of home improvement can be easy and inexpensive.
With some deep thinking about your home preferences, some organization, and decluttering, you will be surprised at how much you can improve your home environment.
Here are some fun journaling questions to help you brainstorm what would improve your home and what your ideal home environment feels like. There are decorating questions, as well as questions to help you analyze your thoughts and feelings regarding your home.
Let’s dive in, and you can grab the PDF printable journal prompts at the end!
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31 Home Journal Prompts to Inspire You
1. What do you love most about your home?
2. What do you most want to change about your home?
3. Write a list of areas to declutter in your home.
4. Name 10 specific things to donate or throw away.
5. What new items do you need? Make a list.
6. What colors do you like?
7. What textures and shapes?
8. What décor style do you prefer? For instance, mid-century modern, Farmhouse, Victorian. {It’s ok if you like many styles, or if you’re unsure!}
9. Write about anything stopping you from home decorating or homemaking projects (such as money, needed repairs, upgrades, cleaning, or decluttering.)
10. Why is a nice home important to you?
11. What less-than-ideal home characteristics or issues can you live with?
12. What needs to change in your home asap?
13. If you could magically add one new feature to your home, what would it be and why?
14. If your home could give you advice, what do you think it would say?
15. Describe the community and neighborhood you live in.
16. Describe the relationships of those in your house.
17. Can you create or have your ideal home? Why or why not? When? How?
18. How does your home make you feel currently?
19. How well does your home support the following: Adequate sleep, rest, relaxation, social time, family time, quiet time, cooking healthy food, reading, fitness, education/personal growth, spirituality.
20. Name a few places you’ve always wanted to live. Would you ever move?
21. What are you grateful for about your house?
22. How do you want guests to feel when they enter your home?
23. What vibe do you want to create in your home?
24. List 10 activities you enjoy doing at home.
25. List a few activities you would like to do at home that you currently can’t or don’t do.
26. Is there anything blocking you from organization? Cooking? Cleaning? Decorating? Maintenance? Rest? Relaxation?
27. What are you giving up on around your home? (Sometimes you have to “let it go” about the wall color or the broken tile.)
28. What are three small changes you could make to bring more joy into your space?
29. Describe your dream reading nook or relaxation corner- what does it look and feel like?
30. If your home had a personality, how would you describe it?
31. Write about a meaningful object in your home and the story behind it.
PDF Printable Home Journal Prompts
Grab these journaling prompts for your home below. Simply download, print, and use whenever you want:
Home Journal Prompts PDF Printable
Feel free to share with a friend, and enjoy!
How Journaling About Your Ideal Home Can Inspire You
Sometimes, just thinking deeply and journaling about your home can lead you to some “aha” moments that will help you improve things.
Some improvements are super easy- such as rearranging furniture. Other improvements are more difficult but can still be carefully planned out step by step and accomplished.
It’s always nice to improve upon your home in any way that you can. Homemaking should be more revered in our society than it is, in my opinion. It’s important, and a lot of fun!
Home maintenance, another aspect of homemaking, is extremely important for health, safety, and maintaining your home’s value. So why not start your homemaking or home improvement projects by brainstorming and planning, journaling, and daydreaming? Then you can start to take action!
Final Thoughts
I hope you’ve enjoyed these basic home journal prompts to improve your home environment. They were a joy to write, as I love homemaking and decorating myself.
Do you know someone who has created a beautiful home? What do you admire about their space? What inspires you? These are other important questions to consider; all the answers to inspire you.
Have fun writing, and let me know what you think in the comments!
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