"confession.... it came up yday about me wearing yoga pants/cotton pj bottoms (pretty ones and i don;t wear them to bed) with a vest top and fake uggs round the house. i then change when i leave the house. i change back again when i come back in"
Oh. My. God. This is EXACTLY what I do!!!
Granted, I started doing this when I had children, initially it was a desire to be comfortable and be able to sort of flit back and forth between bed and not bed during the day as you may do when you have one newborn, but I would always change to go out. After a month or so of being embarrased at being "caught" by the postman or a neighbour knocking at 1pm in your dressing gown (such a new-mum cliche) I discovered "luxury loungewear" for want of a better word. That winter after my son was born I must have spent hundreds of pounds at Hush, who do the most lovely PJ's and loungewear, including the cardigown, which gets mixed reviews depending on which year and which collection due to their tendency to shed and pill a bit (they have since improved their wool mix combo, now less angora and more merino). I live in Uggs, they don't have to be "real" ones in terms of brand but they do have to be 100% sheepskin. So in those early baby days I spent far far more on "homewear" than I did on street clothes, and I felt far better for it.
The problem now of course is colour. The colourway of all that hush stuff I bought is probably more Autumn and quite muted colours, dusky plums and pinks etc, and is a bit wrong for me. That said, a lot of it is ready for the recycling bag now after being hammered for 4 years so I will definitely be treating myself to new "loungewear" this Winter but I suspect it will be difficult finding it in the correct colours.
I did buy a cardigown last winter or was it the one before in a colour they called "denim", which is pretty much Oxford blue (I compared it to my swatch) though being wool is a little muted in saturation, but its fine.
"sorry bit of a waffle but any suggestions as to how i could do my 'house-look' but a bit more stylishly/attractively please?"
Well, I figure chesnut Uggs, which are somewhere near colour 7 and 8, layering basics from Kettlewell if you can't find them on the high street, a yoga pant in an acceptable neutral I have these which are a match for Colour number 4 in the swatch wallet - probably nobody's ** colour and certainly not mine but at least it tones with the rest of the pallette - and they look a lot, lot better than in the picture by the way, the colour is different, less "grey marl", they are longer, and a more elegant shape than on that model, and if that doesn't convince you then check out the price! - and then some cardi's to throw over the top when the weather turns bad, and a pashmina or 2, and you will look as good as you can do bogging around the house!