If you are a Lucy Maud Montgomery fan like I am, you know that a house is more than a house. A house has personality, character and charm. A house with all these attributes deserves an appropriate name. Montgomery gave many places names in both her fiction and her real life. Most people will know the infamous Green Gables, and perhaps Silver Bush. She aptly named the house that her husband and she retired to as "Journey's End", the house in which she later died. There are many famous houses with names. Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House. Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.
A house needs a name if only for it's sentimentality but I have always known that my house will have a name. So now that I am more or less "Home Sweet Home" I have dubbed my house Willow Hill. The house itself sits on a slight hill and there is a large willow tree in the backyard. It's an older styled home with three bedrooms, a library (formerly known as the dining room) and 1 acre to boot. While there are still many boxes to unpack and a few loose ends to tidy up, we are more or less settled and glad to be home.
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