What everyday things do you find utterly charming/chic?

There was a lovely thread like this a while ago about old lady style/chic but I can't find it.

Chic for me is a classic outfit with tweed, navy or leather. Hopefully with good quality accessories and fragrance.
Charming is a lamp lit room with a burning candle preferably in a cottage or farmhouse style abode.
I live in neither unfortunately but have lots of old fashioned homeware such as copper pans etc.

We always have lots of blankets and soft cushions on the sofa, big fluffy bean bags with cushions and blankets for the kids to chill out on.

My possible strange one is I love to have a guest basket in the bathroom, things a guest might need so chewing gum, mints, hand sanitiser, spray deodorant, hairspray, hair pins and bands, couple of different body sprays, personal products of different types just makes me smile when it's all stocked up for any guests who drop by.

My grown up children smiling & laughing together.

A cat’s smile. Where they close their little eyes & just look so happy & content.

A freshly mown lawn.

Waves breaking on rocks.

Cats snoozing on the rug before the log burner.

Aw yes. And his excitement when he sees a bus or even better the rubbish truck/binmen, he literally squeals with excitement and my heart melts.

Mine is tea leaves, in a tea pot, with a tea strainer, a jug of milk and teacups with saucers.

Yes, how much little children love to play grown up is very cute indeed. Babyccinos get ridiculed on MN but is there anything more adorable than a toddler on their dad’s lap sipping from a matching takeaway cup?!

A colleague told me just yesterday that his 2 year-old daughter has a toy laptop and loves playing ‘work’ because she sees him at his laptop and wants to copy. Too cute. 🥰

Oh yes. Definitely charming. DD is 8 but I still love when she reaches for my hand. I also love seeing toddlers holding hands with their mums/dads.

I also love seeing little children using proper china mugs/proper cultery, not plastic. I love how charmed they can be by 'grown up' things.

Also charming and I think chic in a very Country Living kind of way: fresh-cut Christmas trees tied onto the roof of a car. I just saw a nice older man in a flat cap very ably heave his enormous 10-foot tree onto the back of his car and tie it up, and it made me feel very festive and happy.

I am a rubbish gardener but I do have some lovely roses and when I cut them and have them in a vase in my house it makes me feel happy

Oh yes, I put all my hand wash, shampoo etc into nice dispensers and I love it.

Yes this. We have always had our cats and dogs allowed on the sofa. And upstairs. And everywhere- that's what wet vax carpet shampoo cleaners were invented for for a start.

Couple of years ago we got a very old 19 year old rescue cat. She had no idea at all she was allowed upstairs. After a few weeks we twigged. So we carried her upstairs, and introduced her to all the sofas and chairs and the beds. My hat, this was such a gamechanger for her. One happy happy cat. It has been known for DH to sit on the floor because the cat's on his favourite chair. He's fine with it. Just seeing the pleasure it brings for her to know that there are no boundaries and she can go anywhere.

walking Along the pavement holding my toddlers hand.

Putting a few stitches into my latest cross stitch whilst enjoying a cup of tea.

Walking arm in arm with either of my DDs (surely having two is doubly chic?).

Sending hand written greeting cards, even better if I use my fountain pen.

Leaving my phone at home, picking up something unique/vintage in a charity shop, then reading a book in a nice coffee shop. Bliss.

Having candles burning in unexpected corners, like in our down stairs loo, next to the kettle or on the windowsill in the utility room. Makes the whole house feel cosy & loved.

Decanting my daily collagen powder, vitamin tablets and winter cordial into pretty, vintage jars & bottles (there's no plastic, on display, in my kitchen anymore).

Oh yes. I also love the twinkling lights of a village across fields, especially in Winter. The sight of a fox dashing across a snowy field and leaving the lightest trail of prints. Early spring flowers nestling under fruit trees in the orchard. A blackbird enjoying the last of the Autumn berries. The first time blue tits bring their new family to feed at the bird table. Tall, vibrant, beautifully cared for house plants in a sunny, perfectly lit room.

My dog peacefully snoozing on my lap while I read a book.
Clean sheets
Tidy clean but comfortable house.
Symmetry (photos, square rooms etc)

That is definitely charming imo.

The most chic thing ever is an older woman staying alone in a nice hotel with a Little Shagger dog in tow. Doesn’t have to be mixed breed necessarily but it has to be short-legged and ideally a terrier or terrier-adjacent.

I don’t see how that is ‘chic’ - not as I understand the word!

I love threads like this, the things that seem to make make most of us happy are very 'humble', no one says 'oh I love to look at my porsche in the drive', or 'taking my chanel bag' etc, those things are obviously nice to own but the true things that seem to are always to do with home, hearth and family, we need to remember that in our mad world of consumption.

this thread itself is charming and chic and beautiful and just what is needed at this time of year (and always)!

🫂

People saying ‘please may I have…’ instead of the now ubiquitous ‘can I get…’

Such a beautiful thread
for me
-comfortable home, eclectic, lots blankets and throws and cushions in different colours and textures
-candles, red wine, a good book and mumsnet!
-clothes that make me feel good , bold lippy, pink in my hair
-a lovely movie with a large glass wine
-cuddles from my Westie .. in bed with low light

This. Though we call them scrappy dogs. Little Shaggers is a better term though :)