The warm and safe atmosphere – a place I can be completely relaxed and enjoy children’s/grandchildren’s artwork without criticism, a place where there is no judgment – just me surrounded in loving memories, cat purring contentedly beside me.
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I don’t feel comfortable in houses that are too bare. They are like walking through a showroom. A woman over the road has nothing out at all in her kitchen, everything is in cupboards and all the worktops are completely bare. All the rooms are the same. It is most unwelcoming.
I don’t like loads of clutter and dust but I do like some colour and some interesting objects.
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House plants are a must 
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Especially if they grow chilis. 
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Quite so butterscotch…we all need a little spice in our lives 
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Dogs cats house plants babies …
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An Englishman’s Home is his Castle.
Pull up the Drawbridge.
And make Britain a Fortress.
Fingers in others Pies.
Gets Sticky.
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I missed this topic before, but now I’ll give my opinion.
My house is my home because it is usually filled with music and also children. Grandchildren, great grandchildren and also children that are not of our blood. .
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Being surrounded by memories, plus my dog, makes my house a home.
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Being mortgage free!!
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I reckon in my working life I spent well over 1,000 nights in anonymous hotel rooms. So the opposite of what they are and how they feel is a home.
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What makes a house and home for me is Mrs Fox and Rosie…
This is Rosie, Mrs Fox declined from being photographed.
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Similar for me - twenty or so different countries. Electrical Engineering. What about you?
For me it’s that feminine touch: nickers drying on the radiator, cosmetics strewn around the bathroom, cupboards crammed with unwanted stuff.
You know when you are wanted. 
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Business consulting so more likely to be in one place for months - Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Paris, Zurich, and a few other places. Plus lots of hops to far flung places. My estimate is three weeks of travel makes you really miss home. Then two months of not travelling makes you miss travel.
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I know the feeling. For me most of the short trips were from a few days to a few weeks. The more distant ones were several months. South Africa, Türkiye, Malaysia, Libya, Taiwan - that last one was over eight months. Some interesting places and interesting people.
I bet it was Turkey when you were there, before the search engine 
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Yes, you are right. It was Turkey when I first went there in Kayseri.
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Bit worrying if you live alone. 
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That was funny, can go to bed happy now
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