“A tidy house is like this:

An organized, clean place, with free space for circulation and a good entry of light.
But home, for me, has to be home and not a surgical center, a soap opera scenario.
There are people who spend a lot of time cleaning, sterilizing, arranging furniture, fluffing pillows…
No, I prefer to live in a house where I glance up and immediately realize: There's life here...

Home with life, for me, is the one where the books come off the shelves and the ornaments play at changing places.
A living house has a stove worn out by use, by the abuse of hearty meals, which call everyone to the kitchen table.
Sofa without stain?
Cordless rug pulled?
Table without cup mark?
It's obvious that it's a house without a party.
And if the floor doesn't have a scratch, it's because nobody dances there.
Home alive, for me, there's a bathroom with scented steam in the middle of the afternoon.
There's a rubbish drawer, the kind we keep string,
passport and birthday candle all together…
Home with life is the one where we enter and feel welcome.
The one who is always ready for friends, children...
Grandchildren, for neighbors...
And in the bedrooms, if possible, there are sheets turned over by people playing or dating at any time of the day.
A living house is the one we arrange to look like us.
Clean up your home every day...
But arrange it in a way that gives you time to live in it…
And recognize your place in it”.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade.