A house contains your belongings; a home begins collecting your habits.

Ownership does not make a home. What does is the accumulation of small repetitions: the same chair, the same route through the rooms, the way the light lands at a particular hour, the shortcut your hand takes to a drawer. The place slowly takes the shape of your habits until it feels like an extension of you.

If somewhere new does not yet feel like yours, give it repetitions rather than furniture. Do the same small things there for a few weeks. The feeling follows the pattern rather than the purchase.