What everyday things do you find utterly charming/chic?

[Croya]

I feel extremely accomplished and satisfied when I make a homemade pudding. I have no idea why. Probably because I came from a family where I don’t think a single thing was homemade. Seeing a homemade cake on a stand in my fridge actually makes me happy.

i also love seeing people lounging at home in battered jeans, jumper and very comfy/fluffy looking socks. Even better if they are stripey. It’s so cosy to me.

Piles of newspapers and magazines on a coffee table that actually get read is another one.

Really odd I know!

my tidy, clean kitchen every time i walk in first time thing in the morning

seeing my two teens lounging on sofa together laughing

Eschewing the big light.

Yes I've discovered this recently. Instead of some boring plastic, having someone spend time on you is so lovely. Even if it looks terrible 😆 Esp since everyone has everything anyway. Home made food is awesome.

Are you a Hallmark movie set designer OP?

If I fuck everything else up in a day, I am always comforted by the thought that my children always have drawers filled with clean, organised clothes. My room and clothes are often a tip, but never theirs.

@SarahAndQuack There is a place we go on holiday most years where the owners put out little vases of the most heavenly scented sweet peas cut from their garden. It's the most charming little touch that I actively look forward to every time we go.

This thread is utterly charming. Thank you @Croya

Politeness and someone who smiles.

A tidy bag with lovely assessories inside. I work with a woman who has in her bag a sleek leather wallet, a compact mirror, the worlds tiniest umbrella. Her sunglasses in a gorgeous case. She has a leather cover for her laptop and a beautiful notepad (always as new, even though she uses it!) and a posh pen.
I have 6 leaky biros, a tangle of tissues, a cough sweet thats unwrapped itself, a big fat mum purse, loose paperwork, all rattling round with my B&M readers, my scratched phone, a glove, a cling film wrapped sandwich, and my laptop shoved in on top.

House shoes rather than slippers
Books
Logs
Needlepoint cushions
Fresh flowers in tiny vases
Well thumbed cookery books

Although I love time alone in silence, lately I am happy with the sound of the radio or tv, listening to someone singing along to it, the house smelling of cooking or laundry, someone on the phone in another room ... I'm not old-old, but I'm old enough to value my elders repeating themselves and I try to hang on to the stories. I also love fresh bedding and towels day, and, bizarrely, refuse collection days. In summer, I have wonderful sofa throws, but in winter I have throw-size family quilts. Pots of leaf tea... So much, I could go on forever.

I've finally managed to get the timer right on my outside lights, so I love coming home at 6/7pm and seeing them twinkle across the upstairs balcony. They look gorgeous.

I'm a sucker for buying food in old fashioned style tins, like Mère Poulard biscuits, cough sweets, tins of olive oil etc.

Little dogs in coats/jackets. I met a dachshund a few weeks ago in italy wearing a polo neck breton stripe under a yellow rain mac. 😅 Terriers in tweed are also a favourite.

I saw a silly instagram video the other day which was ‘when a woman has one daughter as her only child, so chic’

I have a mixture 😂 but saw a woman having lunch with her adult daughter today, and I agreed, so chic.

She might have four sons at home for all I know, but still- I got what the content creator was saying.

Comfy-looking well-polished shoes

Well-worn, well-fitting jeans

Twinkly eyes

Attractive handwriting

Good music on a radio

Curtains that reach the floor

Well-laundered towels

A carafe of room-temperature drinking water

Musical instruments

Well-behaved dogs

Children that make age-appropriate conversation

Teapots

Casual thrown-together cocktails

Downstairs toilets that smell of nice soap

I love this thread @Croya .

I’m a cynical old teacher, but those reception children being angels in the nativity, and singing Little Donkey, really gets the tears flowing (even if I’ve heard it being practised from October!).

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A single daughter is inexplicably chic, I agree 😂.

This ^

When I go into the bedroom and see my cat asleep on the bed.
Sitting in the kitchen first thing in the morning, with just my youngest and singing to her whilst she sits in her high chair.
An ice cold can of diet coke is the chic-est drink in the world.
The shelves in my husband’s office that are full of quirky little things that really represent him. Wrestling figures from the 90’s, books, pics of me and him from when we first started dating, drawings that our kids have done that he loved so much he framed 🥹, a gladiators plate cos he had one when he was little and found one on eBay a few weeks ago.

Gardens full of flowers. Packed full. All tangled up. With climbers tangled up together.

I hate this current brutalist trend for gardens.

Oh I love this thread.
I love it when women with long curly hair twist it up so effortlessly and carelessly and it just looks gorgeous, bonus marks for freckles and a huge real person smile with crinkly eye lines

Cats perched on things - we've recently adopted a pair (having only had one cat at a time before) and I'm loving seeing the two of them together

Vase full of bright tulips (or any cut flowers, but especially tulips) - buying flowers is my cheap treat to brighten by week, I usually buy some with my groceries

Colour and pattern generally - no grey houses for me!

I find tortoiseshell patterned accessories very chic, such as a comb and sunglasses ect.

Original features in homes, like wooden beams and fireplaces.

Long grey hair, but I can’t really explain why! Red hair too.

Cats curled up. It makes a home look so cosy and comforting.

This thread is lovely. Thank you, OP.

In my mum’s garden there is a set of four little steps going up the rockery, which my dad built for our dog when she got a bit arthritic and started struggling to scamper up the slope to her favourite spot where she liked to peer out through the fence. Neither the dog nor my dad are still with us, but I still find the steps unbelievably sweet and heartwarming.