What 'house' things do you really love?

[Hernamesnoelle]

I'm not talking about big fancy mansions with swimming pools and cinema rooms here - just things about your house or other people's that you really enjoy.

For me it's bright yellow kitchens! Not sure why but I love a homely yellow kitchen with kids drawings on the wall.

I also love a big wooden kitchen table.

A fireplace and a chimney.
I really dislike how SOME new homes don’t have chimneys and don’t even have a fireplace. We’ve had them for centuries then suddenly on our watch they’re defunct due to central heating. I think not!

Sounds a bit like dd2's house. It is Edwardian with beautiful tiled hall floor stained glass on the door panels, high ceilings. It also has window seats in a couple of the rooms.

Know exactly how you feel. Our beloved feline died two weeks ago tomorrow and now I just don’t want to be home anymore 😞

I love high ceilings, wooden floors, big hallways (my front door leads straight into the room thst is my living room, bedroom and office), big windows, double doors separating a large living space, separate rooms (not open plan), finger plates on old doors, built in beds (like box beds), original oil paintings, bathrooms that look like 1930s pubic toilets, books, cats, views, old hospital beds, wooden kitchen tables, mid century sculpted busts, old dark brown furniture, heritage paints, Lloyd Loom ottomans, oversized mirrors, fringing and piping, expensive wallpapers that I cant afford, big lamps, a lot of quirk.

My house is small (hence sleeping in the living room), and nearly everything in it is off ebay or the local community furniture place. But I love it fiercely and it is very me. An old friend visited and said, "Wow, this is like walking into your psyche" and I knew I had succeeded.

I'd love a basement. I've been watching Jasmine Harman's renovation programme on Channel 4 and her basement is amazing! A cinema/games room plus a gym, so envious 😭

My dream house would have a balcony or window seat overlooking a cedar tree. Bizarrely, Id like to be tucked into a cathedral close (Im not even christian). Id quite like victorian gothic architecture, like a haunted house, but with a lovely atmosphere. The stairs would be sweeping and have a generous tread (you need crampons and ropes to climb up my stairs). There would be wooden shutters and those lovely Swedish stoves. Nothing bad could ever happen there.

You can have mine! It houses the kitchen and is damp and so dark we keep the lights on all day.

My dream house is a small, mid-century Eric Lyon's Span house, with big windows and loads of natural light framed by greenery.

Or, if I was living in Frankfurt, I would dream of a Frankfurt Kitchen. Absolute genius design.
I don't really care about space but I need natural light and functionality.

Other thing I always envy is a laundry room. My mum has a room just for ironing.

Great thread.

I am lucky to love my house. We moved in a couple of years ago and it feels like my forever home. It was built in the 1930’s and has lovely high ceilings, bay windows, picture rails, original internal doors with brass fittings, wooden bannisters and floorboards in the hallway. The kitchen looks onto a SW facing garden full of plants and flowers and I spend as much time in it as I can, and am trying to learn to garden so I can continue to enjoy it.

I love homes that are full of colour and clutter but I can’t have that in my own home as my brain doesn’t work if there’s too much going on. So I’m trying to work out how to offset the minimalism. All the walls are off-white, carpets are beige, neutral blinds and bedding (I know, lots of people would hate it). But then I mix in antique oak furniture and art. I have to work quite hard to make it not look like an asylum, but I’m trying to go for a kind of period features on a plain background feel. Lots of books helps. It’s a work in progress!

When I win the lottery, I’ll stay here but add some of those garden sofas, get rid of the grey bathroom and have something more 1930’s, have the kitchen extended to be able to fit a sofa and massive wooden table, add a utility room, and convert the loft into a secret library. 😂

I love anything cosy and warm, but especially a pantry and a lovely cottagey kitchen 🥰 and trinkets/art work from places the homeowner has been that have been really well thought out

I’m happy for a downstairs loo. It feels so personal going upstairs in someone’s house for a wee.

We have glass stacking doors opening out to the garden. While we dont have a big house, this makes it feel very light and airy and brings the outdoor in....its my favourite thing about the house.

I'm so sorry, Laura 💙

I understand this feeling. The whole place just echoes with his absence.
I had no idea losing him would feel this terrible.

Thomas Hardy wrote a poem to his cat when it died mourning its loss. In the poem he imagines the cat still in its favourite spots - the windowsill, the chair where traces of its fur still remain, claw marks on the trees where he climbed....
The sense of his cat as part of his home is unmistakable.

I had always found Hardy a bit remote until I read this poem but it completely rounded him out for me as nothing else had.

To make it even better, the cat was called Kiddleywinkempoops Trot - the playfulness of this is quite unexpected from the writer of novels such as Jude the Obscure!

Lamps of all shapes and sizes. They give off a cosy glow. Candles. Cushions. My new herringbone floor

Spacious hallways
Original cornicing / ceiling roses
Fireplaces
Bay windows
Pantry
Utility room
Broken plan
Minimalist but with different textures
Loads of lamps
Loads of books
Lots of natural light
Wooden floorboards and rugs

Real wooden floors, Victorian style patterned floor tiles, bay windows.

Love love loving these ❤️

I'd love a home with period features - high ceilings, sash windows, big fireplace... the ones with parking and a decent garden are way out of budget around here though sadly.

I DO have the utility/laundry room though! With stacked washing machine and tumble dryer, cupboards for all the householdy stuff (including a narrow cupboard just for the ironing board) and a dog shower. I love it!

I had the house with high ceilings, open fire, sash windows, painted and stained glass in the front door… it had parking but a tiny garden. I always hankered after a utility room like yours with shower - but for muddy footballers not dogs! There was no side access so it wasn’t possible but I loved the thought that they could come straight round the back, shower and put muddy kit straight in the wash, leaving boots there (rather than front doorstep where weirdly once all our shoes and boots were stolen!)

@NoEffingWay I have a drawer full of wax melts, so I know your pain 🤣

I love our wood burner. It just makes our house home and it feels so welcoming
Plants. Everywhere 🪴

Side lights, standard lamps, not the big light. Though, I love our living room big light shade, a capiz shell chandelier.

The reclaimed pine doors, some with cut glass handles & brass fittings and some have very ornate brass finger plates

Theres a west facing spot in our newly built conservatory which I am very much looking forward to sitting in a looking at a new view. We have houses all around us and don't have a decent view, we're spoilt by the one at our previous house, but this spot is of the sky and our silver birch tree copse. When it was an outside space, it always had stuff in it, mainly storing logs for the aforementioned wood burner, but when I stood on it last week it was just lovely.

Oh and my boiling water tap! I’ll never live in a house without one!

What I would love in a home is a Geleta stained glass yellow front door with side lights, also stained glass, opening from an open wood framed porch into a wide hallway with benches to sit on and put on/take off shoes. I would have a fisherman's light hanging from the apex, and cover it in fairy lights at Christmas. The porch would have bench seats both sides, somewhere to sit out of the rain, or the sun, or to take a break from gardening

are you me? this is my list too exactly