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* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: Someone has a certain standard on how to live.
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* NitpickyAboutLivingArrangements: Someone has a certain standard on how to live.
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* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: A character sees their house from a high place.
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* SittingOnTheRoof: A character needs a good place to be alone with their thoughts, so they sit on the top of their house.
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* CeilingCorpse: There's a dead body on the ceiling in a HauntedHouse.
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* LandmarkDeclarationGambit: A house is declared a landmark and is legally protected from demolition, greedy developers and so on.
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Orphanages don't count for this trope. OrphanageOfFear and OrphanageOfLove are the only two we have it seems.

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* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: Apartment buildings that are unpleasant to live in, if not downright dangerous.
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* TheAllegedHouse
* ArborealAbode
* AHomeownerIsYou
* BigFancyCastle
* BigFancyHouse
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding
* CardboardBoxHome
* CarMeetsHouse
* ChildhoodHomeRediscovery
* TheCon (when it involves real estate scams)
* CoolHouse
* DestroyTheAbusiveHome
* DingyTrainsideApartment
* ExtremelyDustyHome
* GadgeteersHouse
* GingerbreadHouse
* HauntedHouse
* HouseAmnesia
* HouseHuntingMontage
* HouseInspection
* HouseSquatting
* HorribleHousing
* LetThePastBurn
* LivingInAFurnitureStore
* LonelyBachelorPad
* MushroomHouse
* NonResidentialResidence
* OldDarkHouse
* PlayingHouse
* ProtectThisHouse
* SapientHouse
* SecretSquatter
* SleekHighRiseApartment
* SmartHouse
* StandardizedSitcomHousing
* SymbolicGlassHouse
* TrashyTrailerHome (although a home, not a house)
* TreehouseOfFun
* TrespassingHero

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* TheAllegedHouse
TheAllegedHouse: A dilapidated, borderline-unlivable residence.
* ArborealAbode
ArborealAbode: A house in a tree--not a treehouse, but a house/apartment built directly into a living tree.
* AHomeownerIsYou
BigFancyCastle: Humongous castles that are often hard to navigate and have plenty of show-offy things.
* BigFancyCastle
BigFancyHouse: A very large house owned by a character.
* BigFancyHouse
BigLabyrinthineBuilding: A very large building or structure with lots of rooms, which are often difficult to navigate.
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding
* CardboardBoxHome
* CarMeetsHouse
* ChildhoodHomeRediscovery
* TheCon (when
CardboardBoxHome: A character lives inside a cardboard box and considers it involves their home.
* CarMeetsHouse: A car or another vehicle crashes into a building. While the trope is often PlayedForLaughs, there are also works that portray the consequences seriously.
* ChildhoodHomeRediscovery: A character stumbles upon the place they grew up, opening up the floodgates for old memories.
* TheCon: A ConMan finds someone and tells them a story to get them to trust them, then runs away with the victim's cash. In this case,
real estate scams)
scams are an applicable example of the trope.
* CoolHouse
CoolHouse: A dwelling with so many interesting/unique features that any "normal" person aware of its full capabilities would be either in awe, concerned about the owner or designer's sanity, or concerned lest the house fall into the wrong hands.
* DestroyTheAbusiveHome
DestroyTheAbusiveHome: An abuse survivor destroys the place they grew up in as a form of catharsis.
* DingyTrainsideApartment
DingyTrainsideApartment: A cheap, unstable apartment building next to a railway that shakes whenever a train passes near it.
* ExtremelyDustyHome
ExtremelyDustyHome: A home caked in dust to show signs of age and neglect.
* GadgeteersHouse
GadgeteersHouse: A dwelling owned by a GadgeteerGenius, MadScientist, or BunglingInventor which is filled with time-saving devices of their own creation.
* GingerbreadHouse
GingerbreadHouse: A building made of food, most commonly sweets, and a stock location in fairy tales.
* HauntedHouse
HauntedHouse: A house occupied by ghosts.
* HouseAmnesia
AHomeownerIsYou: Video games that let the player buy and/or build personal property.
* HouseHuntingMontage
HouseAmnesia: Telling someone to leave a home while forgetting that it's ''their'' home.
* HouseInspection
HouseHuntingMontage: A {{montage}} showing a character or group trying out different houses.
* HouseSquatting
HouseInspection: A homeowner tries to make their place of residence look good for an inspector's visit, only for their best efforts to be in vain.
* HorribleHousing
HouseSquatting: A character takes up residence in a house that's not theirs.
* LetThePastBurn
HorribleHousing: A small, messy, cramped home that emphasizes the poverty of its inhabitants.
* LivingInAFurnitureStore
LetThePastBurn: The story ends with a fire destroying a building, along with all it represents.
* LonelyBachelorPad
LivingInAFurnitureStore: In sitcoms, the characters' houses are always well-organized, clean and tidy, as if they live in a furniture store.
* MushroomHouse
LonelyBachelorPad: An unmarried person's apartment is minimally-furnished and poorly-kept.
* NonResidentialResidence
MushroomHouse: A house shaped like a mushroom or fungus.
* OldDarkHouse
NonResidentialResidence: A character's place of residence technically doesn't count as a house.
* PlayingHouse
OldDarkHouse: A spooky old house cut off from the rest of the world, often serving as the setting for murder mysteries.
* ProtectThisHouse
PlayingHouse: A game in which young children take on adult roles, trying on adult roles seen around their homes.
* SapientHouse
ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
* SecretSquatter
SapientHouse: A house is alive and has a mind of its own, and can think and act independently.
* SleekHighRiseApartment
SecretSquatter: Someone is secretly living in an already-occupied house, unknown to its "official" inhabitants.
* SmartHouse
SleekHighRiseApartment: A sleek, modern high-rise apartment overlooking a cityscape, usually used to demonstrate its inhabitant's wealth and/or power.
* StandardizedSitcomHousing
SmartHouse: A fully automated house controlled by a sophisticated computer AI.
* SymbolicGlassHouse
StandardizedSitcomHousing: A stock house or apartment layout in a DomCom.
* TrashyTrailerHome (although SymbolicGlassHouse: People (almost always rich people) with secrets ironically live in minimalist glass houses, or houses with large glass windows.
* TrashyTrailerHome: Trailers are exaggeratedly horrible places to live, and are almost always used as shorthand for
a home, miserable life and/or poverty in fiction. While technically not a house)
house, it still acts as a place of residence for characters.
* TreehouseOfFun
TreehouseOfFun: Treehouses are typically portrayed in fiction as fun hangout spots, especially for children.
* TrespassingHeroTrespassingHero: The heroes are allowed access into an area that would normally be restricted to them, commonly a private residence.
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* HouseHuntingMontage
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* SecretSquatter

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* TheCon (when it involves real estate scams)



* RealEstateScam (when it involves houses)
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* SymbolicGlassHouse
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* RealEstateScam (when it involves houses)
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* TrashyTrailerHome

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* TrashyTrailerHome (although a home, not a house)
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* TrashyTrailerHome
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CastleTropes are related because they're basically the houses of RoyaltyAndNobilityTropes.
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Also not tropes for the television show, ''Series/{{House}}'', or the film, ''Film/{{House}}''
''Film/{{House}}''.
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Also not tropes for the television show, ''Series/{{House}}''.
''Series/{{House}}'', or the film, ''Film/{{House}}''
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CreepyDollhouse doesn't go in here because no one is living in it.
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Tropes involving houses and homes.

Orphanages don't count for this trope. OrphanageOfFear and OrphanageOfLove are the only two we have it seems.

HomeAndGarden is our page for the television show genre about landscaping and home improvement.

Related to HomeBase, which is a core location of some group or person's occupation, but they don't have to sleep, eat and house their family there.

!!Tropes:
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+ HomeImprovementTropes
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* TheAllegedHouse
* ArborealAbode
* AHomeownerIsYou
* BigFancyCastle
* BigFancyHouse
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding
* CardboardBoxHome
* CarMeetsHouse
* ChildhoodHomeRediscovery
* CoolHouse
* DestroyTheAbusiveHome
* DingyTrainsideApartment
* ExtremelyDustyHome
* GadgeteersHouse
* GingerbreadHouse
* HauntedHouse
* HouseAmnesia
* HouseInspection
* HouseSquatting
* HorribleHousing
* LetThePastBurn
* LivingInAFurnitureStore
* LonelyBachelorPad
* MushroomHouse
* NonResidentialResidence
* OldDarkHouse
* PlayingHouse
* ProtectThisHouse
* SapientHouse
* SleekHighRiseApartment
* SmartHouse
* StandardizedSitcomHousing
* TreehouseOfFun
* TrespassingHero
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