Spring
The first blossom, the soil warming, plans for the year ahead.
Worth keeping Photograph the garden from the same spot as last spring.
I love my home
Love where you live.
Your home is more than four walls. It is the garden that grows with you, the tree you planted years ago, the terrace where summer evenings last a little longer.
Every season brings something new. Every year adds another chapter. Keep them together, for yourself and for the people who come after you.
A home in four seasons
The same house, the same garden, never the same twice. Each season is a reason to look again, and to keep what you see.
Summer
Long evenings on the terrace, the table carried outside, friends who stay late.
Worth keeping Note what is flowering, and what you would plant again.
Autumn
Falling leaves, the last apples, the light turning gold over the roofs.
Worth keeping Write down the work done before winter, and the bulbs you put in the ground.
Winter
The house holding you close while the garden sleeps under frost.
Worth keeping Look back over the year, and gather its photos and papers in one place.
What a home remembers
Not the square metres. The moments. The small, ordinary things that turned a building into your place.
- The day you got the keys, and the first photo of an empty room.
- The tree you planted when the children were small.
- The wall you painted together, and the colour you argued about.
- The flowers that come back every spring, and where you put the bulbs.
- The people who helped: the builder, the gardener, the neighbour with the ladder.
- Every renovation, and what the house looked like before.
A home that grows with you
Gardeners and old house journals have known it for a long time: memory is kind, but it forgets. A few small habits keep the story.
Photograph the same view, every season
Choose one spot and one angle, with something in the frame that stays all year: a fence post, a wall, the old pear tree. Years later, the pictures side by side show how much has grown.
Write down what you planted, and where
Next spring you will not remember which corner has the tulips, or which rose did best. A line and a photo today save a guess tomorrow.
Keep the papers with the place
The warranty for the boiler, the receipt for the windows, the manual for the mower, the name of the roofer. They belong to the home, so keep them beside it.
Leave a note for whoever comes next
Old house journals opened with a note asking the next family to keep the book going. A home’s story is worth handing on.
For the people who come after you
A house journal used to be a book on a shelf. On its first page, a note asked whoever lived there next to keep it going.
The walls will outlast us. The story of how they became a home usually does not: the year the hedge was planted, who built the terrace, why the kitchen is blue.
Keep it now, while you still remember. One day your children, or the next family to love this place, can see how it grew.
Your house should remember everything.
How EMALINO keeps the story
EMALINO is an app for your home: its photos, its papers, its projects and the people who care for it, together in one place.
Every place you love
Every place you own or look after gets its own photos, tasks, documents and history.
A visual timeline of your home
Upload from your phone, and GPS and camera details are read for you.
Papers beside the place they belong to
Warranties, receipts and manuals, kept beside the home they belong to.
The bigger work, as one story
Group a renovation, a new terrace or a move-in into one effort with its own timeline and photos.
The people who care for your home
The builder, the gardener, the chimney sweep: keep them in one book.
Shared with the people you choose
Invite your partner, or the people who work on your home, and share the right tasks and files with the right people.
In your pocket, in the garden
A native app for iPhone and Android, with the camera built in.
Questions
Do I need a house with a garden?
No. A flat with a balcony and three pots of herbs is a place you can love too. What matters is that it is yours to look after, and that its story is worth keeping.
I am not renovating anything. Is this for me?
Yes. Most of a home’s story is small: a season’s photos, a tree planted, a room repainted. Those are exactly the things that are forgotten first.
What is EMALINO?
EMALINO is an app for keeping your home’s photos, documents, projects and contacts together, on the web and as a native app for iPhone and Android.
Who sees what I keep?
You decide who you invite. In EMALINO you share the right tasks and files with the right people.
How do I start?
Open EMALINO, add your home, and add the first photo. The view from the kitchen window today is a good beginning.
Who publishes this site?
EMALINO publishes I-Love-My-Home.com, to share an idea it believes in: the place you live deserves to be remembered.
Start with one photo.
Stand where you stood last year, look at your home and your garden, and take the picture. That is the first page.
Start your home’s story with EMALINO