There’s no place like home. Whether you live in a cozy apartment or a spacious house, your home is your refuge from the outside world. It’s a place where you can relax, be yourself, and feel at ease.

For many people, a home is also a place of security, comfort, and belonging. It’s a place where you can feel safe and protected from the outside world.  No matter what your home is like, it’s a special place that deserves to be described in the best possible way. Here are 139 words to describe home – from charming to stately, and everything in between.

1. ancestral
2. ancient
3. arid
4. art deco
5. asian
6. average
7. barn
8. big
9. bright
10. bright colors
11. business-oriented
12. cape cod
13. charming
14. cheery
15. childless
16. children
17. classy
18. clean
19. colonial
20. colorful
21. comfortable
22. contemporary
23. controllable
24. cool
25. cottage
26. cozy
27. craftsman
28. danish
29. distant
30. dutch colonial

 

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." - Maya Angelou

31. Elizabethan
32. entertaining
33. exact
34. eclectic
35. expensive
36. fancy
37. farmhouse
38. federal colonial
39. feminine
40. French
41. french country
42. french provincial
43. frugal
44. gathering
45. gentle
46. Georgian
47. Georgian colonial
48. grateful
49. greek revival
50. happy
51. humble
52. industrial
53. interesting
54. Italian
55. Italianate
56. Japanese
57. lakeside
58. log home
59. logical
60. loud

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." - Jane Austen

61. luxurious
62. masculine
63. Mediterranean
64. mid-century modern
65. mobile
66. modern
67. modest
68. mountainside
69. native
70. natural
71. neat
72. neoclassical
73. neutral
74. noble
75. old
76. one-story
77. opulent
78. original
79. ornate
80. orthodox
81. overcrowded but cheerful
82. palatial
83. peaceful
84. permanent
85. picturesque
86. plain
87. play up Tudor
88. poetic
89. prairie
90. primitive

"There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home." - Kenny Guinn

91. private
92. pueblo revival
93. quiet
94. ranch
95. refined
96. regal
97. remote
98. restful
99. rigid
100. romantic
101. roomy
102. rough
103. rustic
104. safe
105. sanitary
106. Scandinavian
107. seaside
108. serene
109. simple
110. small
111. snug
112. soft
113. solid
114. southern
115. spacious
116. Spanish
117. spiritual
118. stable
119. stately
120. steadfast

"Home isn't where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark." - Pierce Brown

121. substantial
122. suburban
123. sun-kissed
124. tidy
125. timeless
126. townhouse
127. traditional
128. Tudor
129. two-story
130. undisturbed
131. unpretentious
132. upscale
133. urban
134. Victorian
135. warm
136. welcome
137. well-guarded
138. well-worn
139. western

What other words do you use to describe home?