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Show Us Your Mom’s Influence on Your Home

Maybe it’s a great chess set or a style philosophy. With Mother’s Day nearing, where do you see your mom in your space?

Gwendolyn Purdom
Gwendolyn PurdomMay 6, 2018
Lover of architecture, history, dogs, the Chicago Cubs, crowded bookshelves, and homes with a story. Former editor at Preservation mag and Culturess.com.
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Chances are, you got more than your hazel eyes from your mother. Lessons learned likely linger in the energy of your home or hang on the living room wall. Her passed-down taste reveals itself in your love of clean lines, or perhaps you see the autographed baseball that once sat on her bookshelf now sits on yours.

Mother’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on the ways our moms have shaped our lives. We want to hear about the ways you see her fingerprints on the pieces and places that surround you and your family daily (maybe even literally if Mom is a regular houseguest).

Show us: Share in the Comments a photo or two of a piece of furniture or a decorative element in your home or garden that came from your mother. Did you design your room around it? Is it something ordinary but meaningful, like a ticket stub, that you display? Do you have memories of it from childhood? Does it clash with the rest of your stuff? Will you pass it down to your children? We want to hear about it.
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In John and Jamie Dombroski’s 1920s Florida cottage we profiled in 2013, for example, the couple chose to adorn their walls with artwork painted by Jamie’s mother.

Is there something your mom created that you have on display? We want to see it.

For home professionals, that emotional connection to Mom’s belongings or decorative instincts can even drive a business. U.K. interior designer Jasmine Orchard of Jasmine Orchard Styling told Houzz she traces the mix of flea market finds and interesting, colorful objects she uses in her work and her home to her mother.
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“We couldn’t walk past a charity shop without Mum dragging us in to find things for our home, and holidays often involved exploring flea markets or finding unusual shells on the beach to bring back,” Orchard said in 2015. “What I considered back then to be a bore, though, turned out to shape me and my desire for searching out interesting items to use for decor, and decorating a house on a shoestring.”

Tell us: What in your home came from the woman you’ll be celebrating this month? And what does it mean to you? Post your photos and stories in the Comments below and you might see them featured in a future story on Houzz.
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  • susand1108
    9 months ago

    I have a globe on a stand in the living room. My mother was a teacher, and when I was growing up, we always had a world map and a US map on the wall. It was always easy to go and locate the places we were talking about or hearing about in the news.

  • spurfnickety
    9 months ago

    My mother died suddenly two weeks after I turned 17, almost 61 years ago. It was a trauma that partly defined me and altered the course of my life, but it did not defeat me. I can no longer remember the sound of my mother's voice, but I can see visualize her grumbling about the family finances at the mahogany Governor Winthrop desk that sat in the large front hall of our late 19th century home. Now it graces a bedroom in my mid-20th century home, where my granddaughters love to play. While my four-year-old granddaughter has to be carefully supervised when she sits at the desk, her ten-year-old big sister appreciates the memorabilia I store in the desk drawers and cubbies of her great grandmother's desk. Some day my older granddaughter, who will inherit the desk, may be complaining about having to rob Peter to pay Paul, just like my mother did so many years ago.


  • Linda Collier
    9 months ago

    My mother loved window decor-- especially water fall valances. She didn't see window dressing as something to hide behind, instead she saw them as a showpiece and a way to illuminate the good bones of a room. For her that style was something special. She's been gone since 2003, but every time I decorate a room, the first thing I think of is how I can include a water fall valance to reinvigorate my memory of her. Our Master Bath below.

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