Do you love your home, even if it’s not conventionally ‘on trend’, and you’re not wealthy?

[NormasArse]

I’m just sitting here with my dogs, thinking how fortunate I am to have my little house.

I doubt anyone would come in and think they wished they lived here, but I really love it!

It’s really cosy, and full of all the things I like (lots of 70s stuff from charity shops 😁). Nobody else has a house like mine, and I love that.

What do you love about your home?

Yes
Weve been here coming up to 20 years and it’s been flexed and fixed to suit a growing family- it’s just about where we want it to be.
The location is the reason we’ll never move again and made it work as the kids grew.
The rooms aren’t big enough to do major scale hosting but I’m no longer bothered about that and would rather meet at a pub then go home to a clean kitchen! We do have more people over when we can sit outside.

It’s a place where we’ve grown, healed from significant trauma and a safe space for our children to retreat to. I’ll never ever take that for granted and am always delighted to see it again after being away.

Ex-local authority house. Purchase following divorce. Moved from 6 bedroom Victorian cottage. I love this house. It has looked after me well. Been here 10 years. Never lived this long in any house, even in childhood. Great neighbours. Great location. I should downsize. I can’t find anything that matches or improves what I have. Every time I arrive home, I say ‘hello little house’. It really does have a soul.

I love my house because it's mine. Worked hard to save for a deposit with my then boyfriend (now husband) we had to say no to lots of things and cut back to save for it but we did it. Kept work hard to pay the mortgage. Yes inheritance paid off the mortgage. I love shutting the door and being in my space.

Yes I do, it’s only a 3 bed semi in a not particularly amazing area and the least grand out of the homes of anyone I know. But it’s our little private space in the world and we’ve got it done up really nice.

I love our house because we have a mortgage on it and no more landlords. After renting and going through 10 houses in 15 years with some absolutely horrendous landlords, it feels so safe. I can finally relax.

It isn't perfect. The back garden is a mess and the windows will need replaced soon, and we need a new kitchen in the next year or so, but I can hang pictures on the walls for the first time in my adult life, and I was able to paint with the colours I want after so long living in a magnolia world.

It is warm and cosy and I love it.

Love ours. Loved it when it was tiny 10 years ago, still love it extended now. It's not properly finished, decorated etc, and I don't have a good eye for that sort of thing so it isn't v exciting

Yes. It's only small and needs some work but it's mine. It has character (some of which I uncovered when decorating). And I love that the kids say it feels like a home

No. Married and moved in with my in-laws 11 years ago (cultural reasons) and in all these years it's never felt like my home. I've even birthed and raised from three young children here... Looking to move out in the new year, fingers crossed that we finally get our happy ever after!

I love my house as it’s all paid for and is mine and that’s such a good feeling. Factor in my lovely garden backing on to fields and I’m more than happy even if it’s not that big.

I love my house. It’s a 30s semi. 3 bed. Cookie cutter. We have extended out the back, but just an ordinary extension. Not a bifold fully open back, painted white with dark kitchen units and open living area, type extension. A flat roof kitchen diner full of colour, with standard French doors.

My house is cosy and full of colour. It’s perfect.

I love our home, been here 10+ years and I wouldn’t move (unless we won the lottery).

Merry Christmas! Your post struck me. I just wanted to wish you all the very best x

I love my house too. Feel very fortunate to live in a time when as a single woman I could buy my house myself. It’s tiny, pretty nondescript from the outside but inside it’s my absolute haven. Pretty much everything I longed for as a teen when I was desperate to escape the sticks for the big city. Books in every room, fairy lights, candies, throws, wall hangings, a ridiculous amount of cushions, a wall of shelves for my much loved vinyl. Nothing matches but Ii’s bright and cheerful and it makes me happy. People comment on how welcoming and homely it is - though I don’t think anyone else would choose to decorate it quite like I have 😂

There have been 3 arrests on my street this year. One pedophile one terrorist and one I don’t know. Oh and a drugs bust a couple years ago. It’s the biggest house I could afford after leaving my abusive ex. It doesn’t have enough bedrooms for the kids. We don’t have much as I’m a single mother and one child is disabled so I can no longer work.

but I feel safe once inside and I love it more than the big house I grew up in in the nice neighbourhood. I feel like women’s rights have been rolled back and we have a massive fight on our hands in so many areas, I’m directly affected by much of the misogynistic culture and very angry about it. But thank god women can own property!! If I’d been through what I have been through 50 years earlier I would have had no choice but to stay. Love my freedom and that means this tiny falling apart house with dangerous neighbours

I've spent 14 years making it habitable. In 2011 when I needed to buy a home, very little was on to the market because a lot of people were in negative equity after the global crash. With little choice and in a hurry, I bought a doer upper.
It's been a labour of love, new roof, new windows and front door, new kitchen, new bathroom, rewired, replumbed, redecorated.
Now it's warm, dry, safe, secure, a lovely place to live. It has been a battle on my own but worth all the work.🙂

I'm in the middle of redecorating and small time renovating my tiny home. I love it. It's colourful and quirky.

If by on trend you mean grey, beige and white, then no, definitely not on trend. On trend is hideous.

I'm so happy for you❤
I hope you've got a beautiful lamp of your own now, that shines brightly.
I'm so glad you enjoy your sanctuary.
Much love, and happy Christmas to you, from an internet stranger.xx

I quite like mine now although I hate that it’s on a busy road on a hill.
i hated it for years, i was convinced it was haunted, had bad energy when me and ex moved in, had some strange things happening

20 years later, he got kicked out in 2018 and then the feel of the house lifted, it didn’t feel oppressive anymore, the weird shit stopped happening and even though we’ve had some tragic things happening since it’s never had that dark depressing atmosphere since.

My home is council, and it’s a 1940s BISF house, colloquially known as a steel house, its boiling in the summer and cold in the winter but I’ve got a cracking view out the upstairs back and side window.

Ive decorated how I want, nothing matches really, it’s bright, full of second hand things, books, things I’ve inherited or collected since I was 5.

it isn’t perfect but it’s homely

How much did your extension cost? This is what I'd like to do, on our tiny weeny home. I love our little house and don't want to move, but we need a little more wiggle room.
I'd like an ordinary plain extension. Flat roof. Normal doors.
But every builder I get round starts going on and on about bifolds, velux skylight windows in a piched roof, shiny amazing extensions that we can't even begin to afford. All I want is a basic ordinary unflashy rectangle simple flat roof extension with normal upvc doors, but I can't find a builder willing to do one!
How much fid you pay for yours and what size extension is it? I hope you don't mind me asking.xx

I love my home. It’s a double room in a HMO in my favourite part of London. I have a good landlord and decent flatmates. Everything I own is right here with me and I have no extraneous clutter.

I love my home. I don't own it and I don't know what I'll do if the landlord ever decides to sell or needs us to leave. Its the longest I've ever lived anywhere and the only home my daughter has known. It's old and quite run down and needs a fair bit of work - the flooring and windows all need replaced and the kitchen needs completely redone - but it's also cosy, and my daughter is everywhere in it. I do get annoyed about all the things that need done but I'd rather live here with the draughty windows than somewhere else in a show home.

Yes, I love our home. It is a good size but a lot of our furniture is second hand - much of it from charity shops. It means we have a mid-century modern vibe without really trying but it all matches and is very good quality. We also have lots of books, musical instruments and collections but all curated because l don’t like too much clutter and I don’t like mess. I like clear spaces, too. I hope it has a homely, welcoming feel. It certainly does for us. The house itself is just over forty years old, so reasonably modern but old enough to have settled in.

I absolutely love my house.
ive lived here 23 years, it needs a lot less f work doing to it (cosmetically) but I never have had a safe home before,I was moved around as a child (squats/refuges/moonlight flits etc) I slept on a sofa in my stepfathers front room for 2 years after my mum died when I was 11.

My first partner was dodgy and when I got this little house 23 years ago with my 3 little boys, I hated it.
But I knew this was my safe place and now after many years of sadness - happiness and love fill the inside and we literally call it a nest.

I do , victorian townhouse with damp areas, creaky floors , wonky walls but it’s homely and I love it

Best thread on here a the minute, completely heartwarming

Every Christmas everyone