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?

I'm big on not being 'fashionable' in my decor. I tend to look up what's popular so I can avoid it.

We have a tall, narrow house with a long hallway and I really like that we have patterned wallpaper below the dado rail, painted white above. I liked the idea of doing that (about 5 years ago) and when I looked for inspiration I could barely find any pictures of hallways with patterned paper on the lower wall and plain above. So I was quite pleased I seemed to have come up with something that isn't a 'thing' (if anyone is going to pop up and tell me 'no there's loads of pictures of that' - there weren't any 5 years ago!)

We did a lot of building work about 18 months in to living here and knocked the back 3 rooms downstairs together. We couldn't afford an architect so weren't sure what the opening to the kitchen (which is 2 steps up from the rest of the space) would turn out like but it came out looking really good. It's nice because it's open plan, but being up the steps makes the kitchen a bit less 'in your face' and slightly separated from the rest of the space.

I just wish my DH were braver with colour generally - the rooms are large and can take strong colours but he's really hard to convince to go for it.

Yes, because it's mine and I earned it. Well still significantly the banks, but the mortgage will be paid off one day!

I absolutely love my house. I saved so, so hard for it and dreamed for so long. I've had a few comments about how small it is but I don't care. It's utterly perfect for me!

I love my house, not so much the area (city suburbs). If I could pick it up and put it in the New Forest, or near a mass expanse of sandy seaside, I’d be in heaven.

I don’t really know what on trend is- I just know my house isn’t, simply because it’s stuffed full of random things that make me happy, from decades past!

Oh I adore my home. It’s certainly not trendy, thank god, and it certainly wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste but I adore it. It’s an old farmhouse, very ‘cottagecore’ my niece tells me. Think patterned wallpaper and lots of wood and slate floors, cosy furniture and vintage treasures and trinkets galore. The garden is very large and beautiful, a bit wild but glorious in the summer, a true cacophony of colour, and there’s a large conservatory at the back that I like to sit and read in, in my cosy, reclining armchair in a very ‘80s pattern.
Some people, I’m sure, would despise it, but it makes me happy, and my family is happy here so what else matters?

I actually have a new build as it suited us at the time but I love that we don't fit in with the neighbours with our shit old cars and rooms painted in actual colours. We also have a lot of 70s furniture and Ikea basics.

I love mine. Very old thick stone walled cottage. Also has lots of glass and lovely natural oak timber framing.

Clearview woodburner glowing and lots of lamps on here and there makes it very cosy and homely.

Also uplighters in the garden on various trees and bushes add to it, and make it very atmospheric.

As I get older I’ve started to think that trends are for younger ones just starting out because they don’t have more meaningful belongings. Just using Christmas trees as an example, when you first get your own place you’d just buy a load of decorations in whatever colour scheme you like or is popular. Then as you build a life together you might get baubles from a place you’ve visited together, some might be a gift and some might have been made for you so your tree is no longer matchy matchy but the things on it have a bit more meaning. Anyway in answer to your question I thought I loved my home when I was younger but now I feel like there’s more more memories attached to the things in it, so I love it even more now even though it looks less fashionable if you see what I mean!

I love my home as I bought it (in its entirety) by myself.

Its not much but it’s mine all mine.

Your house looks lovely @Barrenfieldoffucks.
Cosy and homely 😊

I love my house 😊
A lot of MNetters would look down on it because it's a new build and HA.

I love it though, it's spacious and light with huge windows in the loving room.
Definitely not wealthy so everything is from FB or charity shops or like B&M kind of shops. A few things have been given to me by my friend when she was upgrading them.

I've filled it with plants and my living room is dominated by a giant monstera that I got as a cheap little thing from Aldi and it's now threatening to take over the house!

Every so often I'll be sat on my sofa and suddenly get a warm happy feeling because I'm so grateful that this is my home.

I love my little house. Every evening once my little one is in bed I sit on the sofa, light a candle and watch telly and just look around and marvel at how lucky we are. Its not much, but it's home. As said Ron Weasley 🥰

I do, it's been a bloody nightmare since day one but it's got good bones.

It's a 1930s semi that was meant to be pretty straightforward when we bought it, although we did overpay because we loved it - within the first week we realised the windows and boiler needed replacing and had spent 6k we hadn't accounted for. Theres about another 7k worth of building bits we've got planned this year, parts of the house rain indoors and my garden is still full of building materials.

But it's ours and we will be staying here, it's got tonnes of family space and options to extend. It's got a tiny, cosy living room and a kitchen where we spend most of our time with DS drawing at the counter, me cooking and DH reading. I've decorated about half of the rooms with plans for the rest and the garden doesn't need rushing because it's our forever home - every bit done to the house is a bonus tick off rather than rush for perfection

I love our little crap house. It's everything I want it to be, the place my babies came home to and the place where I feel happiest and safest.

Yep adore mine. Perfect location ten minutes walk from DS’s primary school, outstanding secondary school and my work, massive garden (for London) which I am really enjoying renovating, lovely cottagey feel.

It needs new windows, a new kitchen and a new bathroom, and could really do with an extension to the living room, none of which I can afford. But it is still so lovely and homely - I feel so happy walking in the door in the evening.

I do. It’s a bit cluttered, and everywhere could do with a coat of paint, but it’s where I brought home both my children, and it’s now where they come home to from university. All the furniture has been collected over 30 years, and was mostly second hand to begin with, so there is nothing trend based about it. From my sofa I can see piles of books, a truly gorgeous Christmas tree and two lovely paintings. Behind me is a collection of coloured glass vases and I can remember where all of them came from, and on the hearth is a huge china pot where my amaryllis bulbs are about to bloom There is a cat sitting on my feet, and I can hear my DS pottering about in the fridge. I’d love an extra bathroom, and the kitchen is starting to look tired, but I am always so happy when I walk through the door.

The roof needing replacing and the dodgy plumbing isn't my favourite but I really love my house.

It's got a big garden that is my favourite place, it's in a community that's friendly and supportive and there's so much wildlife.

I love my little Edwardian mid terrace. I fill it with books and yarn and twinkly lights and candles.
I've been away since Christmas Eve and walked in through the front door about an hour ago. It was such an overwhelming sense of security and love to shut the door behind me and relax.
(I'm drinking wine in the bath and have a new book to start when I get into bed, bliss)

I love what we've done to our 2-bed terrace, making it homely and all the memories we have here. Though if I became rich I would love to move just to have less neighbour noise and a parking space. However, I love being here

My family home was like that. We moved into a new build bungalow when I was seven. It was the mid 70s, and our house was devoid of shag pile, smoked glass wall units, and a colour TV. Where everyone else had hydrangeas in the garden, we had cabbages.

I have very happy memories of that house!

@NormasArse

Tbh my parents houses were all the same. Never trendy, lots of second hand, vegetable patch, wooden windows when everyone else had upvc and my dad actually used (still uses) his garage to fix things and work on cars!

Nothing special- 3 bed end of terrace townhouse. Not too big, not too small. I have a small home office & large laundry too. It’s perfect for us & I love this house.

I don't think I've ever loved a home. It's just a place, with stuff in it. My place, with my stuff, but other than that, it's not special. I don't feel anything for it.

Home for me has always been people. DP, DD, my Mum, my brother, a couple of aunts and cousins, my Grandad. For me, being in a place with any of them was home, whether it was my house, theirs, or some random holiday cottage somewhere.

Apart from the plants it sounds quite like mine. And I know exactly what you mean about the warm happy feeling!