What everyday things do you find utterly charming/chic?

Comfy-looking well-polished shoes

Well-worn, well-fitting jeans

Twinkly eyes

Attractive handwriting

Good music on a radio

Curtains that reach the floor

Well-laundered towels

A carafe of room-temperature drinking water

Musical instruments

Well-behaved dogs

Children that make age-appropriate conversation

Teapots

Casual thrown-together cocktails

Downstairs toilets that smell of nice soap

I saw a silly instagram video the other day which was ‘when a woman has one daughter as her only child, so chic’

I have a mixture 😂 but saw a woman having lunch with her adult daughter today, and I agreed, so chic.

She might have four sons at home for all I know, but still- I got what the content creator was saying.

I've finally managed to get the timer right on my outside lights, so I love coming home at 6/7pm and seeing them twinkle across the upstairs balcony. They look gorgeous.

I'm a sucker for buying food in old fashioned style tins, like Mère Poulard biscuits, cough sweets, tins of olive oil etc.

Little dogs in coats/jackets. I met a dachshund a few weeks ago in italy wearing a polo neck breton stripe under a yellow rain mac. 😅 Terriers in tweed are also a favourite.

Although I love time alone in silence, lately I am happy with the sound of the radio or tv, listening to someone singing along to it, the house smelling of cooking or laundry, someone on the phone in another room ... I'm not old-old, but I'm old enough to value my elders repeating themselves and I try to hang on to the stories. I also love fresh bedding and towels day, and, bizarrely, refuse collection days. In summer, I have wonderful sofa throws, but in winter I have throw-size family quilts. Pots of leaf tea... So much, I could go on forever.

House shoes rather than slippers
Books
Logs
Needlepoint cushions
Fresh flowers in tiny vases
Well thumbed cookery books

A tidy bag with lovely assessories inside. I work with a woman who has in her bag a sleek leather wallet, a compact mirror, the worlds tiniest umbrella. Her sunglasses in a gorgeous case. She has a leather cover for her laptop and a beautiful notepad (always as new, even though she uses it!) and a posh pen.
I have 6 leaky biros, a tangle of tissues, a cough sweet thats unwrapped itself, a big fat mum purse, loose paperwork, all rattling round with my B&M readers, my scratched phone, a glove, a cling film wrapped sandwich, and my laptop shoved in on top.

Politeness and someone who smiles.

This thread is utterly charming. Thank you @Croya

@SarahAndQuack There is a place we go on holiday most years where the owners put out little vases of the most heavenly scented sweet peas cut from their garden. It's the most charming little touch that I actively look forward to every time we go.

If I fuck everything else up in a day, I am always comforted by the thought that my children always have drawers filled with clean, organised clothes. My room and clothes are often a tip, but never theirs.

Are you a Hallmark movie set designer OP?

Yes I've discovered this recently. Instead of some boring plastic, having someone spend time on you is so lovely. Even if it looks terrible 😆 Esp since everyone has everything anyway. Home made food is awesome.

Eschewing the big light.

my tidy, clean kitchen every time i walk in first time thing in the morning

seeing my two teens lounging on sofa together laughing

Weimaraners. My old girl was a furry loon, but she was beautiful and made me look so chic when I was with her ❤️

Hanging washing out, definitely. I don’t have a tumble dryer so my washing is out all year round!

When i treat myself to a proper coffee made in my cafetiere and a freshly baked (from frozen!) cinnamon roll for breakfast i feel properly fancy and sophisticated though no idea why as i always crash half way through the day due to a caffeine and sugar come down but i always enjoy myself immensely at the time!

Comfy sofas with usable blankets

Houses with stuff to look at that represents a personality- photos, travel items, random things.

Houses with colour and quirky

Slightly cluttered. (But with stuff not rubbish)

Fine bone china

Clean windows and a well stocked fruit bowl

Piles of books and magazines everywhere in a house, along with signs of dogs and cats (bed in corner, toys, etc). Signs of a life well lived imo, and a home where people can make themselves comfy and relax.

I like seeing peoples washing hanging out on the line.
I also love twighlight when people haven’t pulled their curtains yet and you can see their tv and Christmas lights, it looks so cosy

Curled up cats, velvet cushions, bone China mugs, earl grey, classical music, well kept gardens, going for walks arm in arm, conversation over a pot of tea and crumpets. All lovely things!

I just love getting home-made gifts, jam/flowers/gin/cake, anything that I can’t do that you can do and I’m delighted. To me it feels like the supreme treat and so stylish to display homemade things people have gifted you eg ‘do try my homemade jam my friend made with your scone’. Like a subtle boast ‘see how accomplished my friends are’. I have a friend who sews things and she has made me makeup bags with zips!

Old people cycling

Oh, and maybe this is a really weird one, but bear with me: organised spares of necessary things. I genuinely get this lovely internal 'ahhhh' feeling of relaxation when there are three bottles of shampoo all lined up in the bathroom, or a stack of loo roll on a shelf beside the loo rather than one scaggy half-finished roll.

I think it comes of growing up in a household where there was either masses of stuff (hoarders' quantities of tins and jars all jumbled up in the cupboard, half of them out of date or weirdly sticky) or we'd run out, and you'd be desperately squeezing the last fraction of a gram of toothpaste out of a knackered tube or hoping someone else hadn't put the empty loo roll back again.