Diva in a Double Wide

This blog is going to be a bit more personal than usual.

I'm going to give you a look inside my home and life and it's not all that easy for me.

I'll explain more later, but here's the reason I decided to do this blog.

Oh and by the way...I'm not really a Diva, I just thought it sounded cool.

I posted this picture recently on a very busy Facebook page, Fresh Eggs Daily. 


I had such an unbelievable response to this picture. So many people wanting to see the rest of my kitchen.

My kitchen?

Why would anyone want to see my kitchen?

I live in a double wide mobile home.

That's right.

I don't live in a two story Victorian mansion, nor a log house, a brick house or even a plain old wood frame house.





I live in a double wide mobile home, but please....don't call my home a trailer house.

It's my home. It's cozy. It's warm.

It needs work. It needs paint. It needs new flooring. It needs new front steps. The porch needs a fresh coat of paint.

The kitchen floor is in a state of perpetual need of a good mopping(not sure how that fits here, but anyway, now you know.)

But it's my home and I am very thankful for it. Let me tell you why.

When my husband and I married 21 years ago, we were both in our forties. We had both been through a rough time and we were both broke. I was more broke than he was. I was broken in little pieces broke.

We started our life together like a couple of broke teenagers. Problem was, I had three teenagers.

We spent nine happy years in a single wide mobile home before buying an acre and a half of land and our home.

Why did we choose to buy a mobile home? For several reasons. The main one was, I didn't think I could survive all the decisions that would go into building a home. I wanted to find what I liked and just move in.

So we did.

Our home has three bedrooms, two baths, a living room, a kitchen and a laundry room, basically everything you need. The only regret I have is that we didn't buy a larger one, but we didn't plan on having quite so many grandchildren at the time.

However, they're pretty cool so we decided not to send any of them back. We just get a bit crowded at holidays.

My house is like a cottage....it's just mobile. My house is cozy. I never think of my home as anything other than just my home.

Why am I writing about all this? Because I realized that there are probably many of you out there who think less of yourselves because you may not live in the best of conditions or have that dream home.

Keep that dream alive, you never know what's around the corner, but until then, make the best of what you have. You can have a comfortable home for your family.

I promise you, I have lived in much worse. I won't go into all that, it was another lifetime. However, I decided long ago to make the best of where ever or whatever I lived in. I decided to make a home for my family. I honestly believe that I could live in a tent and make it cozy. It just takes a little imagination and common sense.

I want you to know that whatever you live in, you can make it inviting.

My little aunt, who just happens to live in a beautiful home in a large city, came to my home recently. She sent me a text later(she's 89 and texts and does Facebook), she said she thought often about my cozy little home.

That made me cry. She thinks my home is cozy. She didn't call it a mobile home. She just called it a cozy home.

That's all I ever wanted, a place that made others feel cozy.

So, now that you know I live in a cozy mobile cottage home, I'll show you those pictures I promised.


My kitchen isn't tiny, but it's not ginormous either.  I have a round table that I only extend when we have company, that way we're not quite so crowded all the time.


My plan is to eventually have several old free standing cabinets in my kitchen for everything.

I have this one now.

When we pulled the existing cabinet out, we decided to use the counter top over the enamel top so there wouldn't be a huge space between the stove and the cabinet.

I also plan to have a an old farmhouse enamel sink someday, in green please!

Just a few roosters and old jars roosting up top.

Here's the open pantry. It was a bookcase in a former life, but it's happy now. 

Can't you see it smiling? 

It will have chicken wire doors someday.   

I believe.   

The old aprons belonged to both my grandmothers. The little hanger also belonged to one of my grandmothers.  Little touches like this help the coziness, don't you think? 

I like seeing things that belonged to my grandmothers in my house. It helps to keep their memory alive and they both had such lovely cozy country homes.  I realize now that they had hard lives without many luxuries, but all we knew was happy! We didn't care about things, we had fun!

Here's the other old cabinet I have.

It rests around the corner in a little space facing the living area. 

I keep some old dishes, some keepsakes and my new tea set here. 

My mother in law's old big churn and my grandmother's baby churn. 

Nothing says home like a couple of churns in the corner!

One more shot of the kitchen. I do like green. 

Can you tell?

I spend a lot of time in this room. 

It's my office and my prayer and study room. You're not getting a picture of my desk....nope.

UPDATE: Someone mentioned that I didn't show my Essential Oil Organization, so I've added a couple of pictures.

Here's the sweet cabinet I found at Hobby Lobby, it's real wood and stands about three foot high.

I got it for 50% off. It was on sale plus an additional markdown because there was a missing label slot. 

I can live with that. 

It has 18 drawers that are perfect for organizing my bottles, salves, sprayers, etc. 

Just about everything I use is either on top of this cabinet or inside the drawers. It's the perfect setup for me.

This is my stash, most of my Essential Oils are kept right here in this expanding bamboo tray. 

I do have a few bottles in the kitchen and bathrooms, but all my backup supply is stored here. 

I also keep my FCO, sample bottles, labels, scissors, droppers and a few more things up top. 

I bought a desk organizer set at the Dollar General that is just perfect for those extras. I also keep what I call my "medicine cabinet" here in the bamboo tray. These are my various blends that I keep made up for easy dispensing.

Now that you've seen a few things in my simple cozy little home, I hope you'll see that it doesn't have to be a mansion to be a happy and cozy place for you and your family. I've found that children and guests don't really care how expensive our homes are. They just want a happy, fun, comfortable, cozy place. You don't have to have a big budget to accomplish these things. Surround yourselves with things that make you happy. Some people like a lot of clutter, others like it simple. It's your home, let it make you happy and you'll make others happy when they visit.

Blessings from Patti's Place to your place!