Selling a childhood home is always an emotional moment. For this interior designer, it was important to preserve a unique memory of this place before it disappeared.
Selling a childhood home is always a delicate moment. So this decorator had an excellent idea so as not to forget anything. When you have played, laughed, spent many holidays and had your first experiences in a family home, you are inevitably attached to it. And if one day there is talk of selling it and never being able to go there again, that’s obviously heartbreaking.
“Our homes are the third envelope of our body, after skin and clothes,” explains Patrick Avrane in Notre Temps. This psychoanalyst and writer, author of Houses, when the unconscious inhabits places and Inherit: A family story (PUF editions), highlights the importance of these places which profoundly shape us. If a house is so important to us, it is because it connects us to our loved ones, to our memories, and to our personal and family history. “With the family home, a particular relationship to time arises. It connects to ancestors and genealogy,” continues Patrick Avrane. It becomes an anchor in family history, a link that combines intimate and collective, and which often crosses generations.
It is precisely this deep connection that Maréva Georges feels when saying “goodbye” to her grandparents’ house. “Even if it’s been a few years since no one has lived there, it’s a page that is turning,” she writes. Her grandfather decided to part with it before it deteriorated further, and for Maréva it was a way of marking the end of a chapter.
To keep a living memory of this place so dear to her heart, she recorded a video in which she opens the drawers, the cupboards, presses the old switches, closes the doors and pulls the wooden chairs onto the parquet floor. She wanted to record the sounds of her grandparents’ house before it was sold. This gesture is for her a way of permanently anchoring this place in her memory, a memory that she can listen to as many times as she wishes.
The sounds of this house, both familiar and unique, keep a trace of its history. By recording them, Maréva from @villamiah_renovation keeps an auditory memory of the place, capturing the atmosphere of the house through its daily noises. Even after the sale, these sounds will allow him to immerse himself in this universe, always present in his memory.
