Houses in books....where do you want to live ?

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Just reading the thread about homes and somebody mentioned no food smells in the kitchen.
This made me think of Penelope Keeling's house in The Shellseekers.
She has a huge basement kitchen with French doors into the garden, there is a scrubbed pine table with a jug of flowers on it and a delicious smell of garlic and herbs. She has shelves full of books and lots of records and silk indian throws on the sofa and omg! I want to live there!

Which fictional house do you want to live in?

Green Gables please!

@Arbadacarba

The snag with Trennels is that you'd have Karen, uptight, periodically violent Edwin, and their offspring alongside in the Tranters' house...?

Ah, but the farmhouse is tied to Trennels, so you could kick the Dodds out and rent it to whoever you liked!

By the sound of it, a lot of us are fighting over Trennels, so we'd need it as overflow. We could also turn insufferable Peter's Shippen into extra accommodation. I've a feeling that as cowsheds go, this is probably more like a cathedral.

Do you suppose Mrs Bertie, and brilliant-at-sewing Doris come with the territory?

I could be off track - it must be nearly 40 years since I read it and Twilight Barking.

Heidi’s Grandfather’s house. (I wanted Green Gables or Red Roofs but it seems some MNetters have moved in already)

This thread has made me realise that I really want to name my own house.

I'm re-reading The Shell seekers and I agree wholeheartedly about Penelope's London Kitchen. The Ibiza house sounds lovely as well.

I always fancied Green Gables, more for Island than the house but I'd take it !.

Nancherrow with the Carey-Lewis family (pre war) is also up there. Love a good Rosamund Pilcher novel.

@ohsuzannah

The Keep in the Marcia Willett books!

Yes, definitely and the Beach Hut in 7 days of summer. In fact, most of the houses in her books.

I think the Darlings in 101 Dalmations lived in Regent's Park. (In the novel, anyway.)

Tough call between Pemberley and Green Gables but I always wanted my own Kirrin Island. Castle ruins, no people, hidden treasure, dungeons, decent weather, secret passage to the mainland, etc. It’s always sounded so appealing.

@AlwaysColdHands

OP, Rosamunde Pilcher was exactly who popped into my head when I saw this thread. I’d like The Dower House featured in Coming Home. Or a little more ambitiously, Nancherrow 😊

Yes, both of those and my personal favourite The Estate House in her book Winter Solstice.

The one with The Chamomile Lawn

Either the Durrells house on Corfu or Rivendell from Lord of the Rings

I used to dream of living at Finmory from the Jinny books but I’m not so sure now, it might be just a bit too remote! I still love the books and bought the whole set on Ebay when I was about 35 😁

All of Anne of Green Gables houses are lovely, I don’t remember the name but especially the house she shared with friends when she was at uni.

@thelegohooverer

Heidi’s Grandfather’s house. (I wanted Green Gables or Red Roofs but it seems some MNetters have moved in already)

This thread has made me realise that I really want to name my own house.

I'm sure we can squeeze another one in at GG - but we can't offer you "the sparey-est of spare rooms".

Nampara, though I would kick Jud out

I've always loved Elsie J. Oxenham's 'Abbey'. I could also happily live in any of the Durrell's villas on Corfu or on Enid Blyton's Willow farm (or Cherry Tree Farm).

@NoraLuka

I used to dream of living at Finmory from the Jinny books but I’m not so sure now, it might be just a bit too remote! I still love the books and bought the whole set on Ebay when I was about 35 😁

All of Anne of Green Gables houses are lovely, I don’t remember the name but especially the house she shared with friends when she was at uni.

Patty's Place was the uni house. That was my pick. Love that sweet little house.

Isabel Dalhousie's house in Alexander McCall Smith's novels set in Edinburgh. It's a large old house in Merchiston.

I agree with any of the LM Montgomery houses - I always fancied New Moon myself as well.

@onemouseplace

I agree with any of the LM Montgomery houses - I always fancied New Moon myself as well.

Yes, I prefer New Moon to Green Gables -- and prefer the Emily books to the Anne ones, though I must admit that Emily is a vain, snobbish cow. With purple eyes.

@Fuckingcrustybread i also quite fancy Diana's mews house in Chelsea.
The big house on Oakley Street would be my dream though.

Nancherrow is gorgeous, with Nettlebed to bring you orange pop and mary millyway able to dig out a spare cashmere jumper when you need one.

Or the Lantern Hill house in Jane of Lantern Hill, though again, rereading as an adult, it's deeply peculiar that an eleven year old girl develops a sort of crush on a journalist's byline photo in a newspaper, cuts it out, keeps it in her hanky drawer and communes with it, then discovers he's her supposedly-dead estranged father and ends up acting as a mini-housekeeper for him and apparently having the time of her life bustling around scrubbing floors and cooking for him.

Since green gables and the schoolhouse at fairacres are taken, can I have the professor’s house from the Lion,The Witch, and the Wardrobe, New Moon Farm, or AlisonUttley’s farmhouse please?

@YetAnotherSpartacus , you can stay in the durrels house in Kalami in corfu.
thewhitehouse.gr/the-durrells/

It is right on the edge of the sea and absolutely beautiful. You can hire a boat there too and pootle along the coast stopping every now and then to jump in and swim.

I'm afraid I've nabbed Alison Uttley's Thackers farmhouse. You may be thinking of a different one though which you're welcome to.

@Serpenta

Patty's Place in Anne of the Island. Whenever I read that book I have an urge to live there in their cosy little bookish home.

(In reality I'd be irked by the lack of booze and lack of overnight gentlemen callers )

I came on to say this! So cosy and surrounded by millionnaires! I'd like to keep the cats and Aunt Jimsie too