Is your parents house still your 'home?'

[seekinglondonlife]

Saw something on another thread that made me think how lovely it must be to go to your parents house and still feel it is home.
Although we are close, I have quite a formal relationship with my DM and step dad. I don't have a house key, when I visit them I ring the doorbell and wait for them to answer the door, even if I can see them through the window. My old bedroom has been turned into a room for one of my siblings (he lives an hour away) and the box room is now a bedroom for his dd. None of the other dgc have ever spent a night in their house.
Weirdly I feel much more comfortable in DHs family home.

Yep. My parents still live in the house I grew up in. My bedroom is pretty much the same from when I moved out however they are turning it into a ensuite/walk in closet!

No, my childhood house has been demolished 4 years ago. But even before that it wasn't home as I moved out 20+ years ago. We can't stay with my mum as the flat she lives in is too small for us to sleep.

My home is my current house where we live as a family.

My PIL still live in the same flat they raised DH. But he doesn't call it home either. It's "going to see the parents" or "where I grew up" when he talks about it.

Yes, still very much a home, have a key, will let ourselves in and make a cup of tea, we have a bedroom there. Stay over at Christmas and in summer.
I’ve let myself in when she’s out to mow her lawn, put her Christmas tree up (she’s 80 and my dad passed away).

She has a key for ours, but she can’t drive so has never used it. We went on holiday once and I left all the bedroom windows open, so she asked my uncle to pop over and shut everything up. We’re a close family.

My DM moved out of my childhood home a few years ago to a different town, but I still have a key to her new house and just walk in when I visit. I have my own room and will raid the kitchen cupboards, so I don't think of it as home but don't stand on ceremony when I'm there

No. It was my childhood home though.
With many fond memories, My bedroom was turned into a living area after I moved out, so I guess for me it lost the element of home then.

Yes. It is where I am assured a warm, loving welcome and even though I left 25 years ago I know exactly where everything is kept, and welcome to help myself.

It's hotter than Mercury though as DM does live to use her fuel allowance

No. Home became the flat I bought 22 years ago and am still resident at. Mum and Dad bought the family home in the late 1960s and it was in the family until a year and a half ago. We sold it upon Dad's passing. Mum died a few years before. It was their home for over fifty years but mine for only part of that time, IYSWIM.

Definitely. We all still have keys and walk in unannounced.

I have a key to my dad's house. Use it often if he's not there and there's soemthing I've run out of, he lives 1 Street away. If he's home the kids tend to have run on and knocked the door or the dogs have barked so he puts it on the latch for when I get there. I'll happily raid his cupboards for treats too haha

I don't have a key to my dm. But rarely go there due to her work shifts. She's also local. But moves house a lot so it's never been my home. Where as dad's has for a while.

Ils. I happily just let myself in. Don't have a key but it's always unlocked. Feel comfortable in their home but don't help myself because FIL likes to host.
They also live very local so see them weekly.

Until my Mum died, yes. Even though I lived elsewhere. Mum was ‘home’.

Is just walk into my parents home. Same for my in-laws, I'd walk in with a key and just call out as to not catch them off guard.

No, but I never lived where my dad and stepmother live now