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1	Tropes involving houses and homes.
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3	Orphanages don't count for this trope. OrphanageOfFear and OrphanageOfLove are the only two we have, it seems.
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5	CastleTropes are related because they're basically the houses of RoyaltyAndNobilityTropes.
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7	HomeAndGarden is our page for the television show genre about landscaping and home improvement.
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9	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.
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11	CreepyDollhouse doesn't go in here because no one is living in it.
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13	Also not tropes for the television show ''Series/{{House}}'', or the film ''Film/{{House}}''.
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15	!!Tropes:
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19	+ HomeImprovementTropes
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21	* TheAllegedHouse: A dilapidated, borderline-unlivable residence.
22	* ApartmentComplexOfHorrors: Apartment buildings that are unpleasant to live in, if not downright dangerous.
23	* ArborealAbode: A house in a tree--not a treehouse, but a house/apartment built directly into a living tree.
24	* BigFancyCastle: Humongous castles that are often hard to navigate and have plenty of show-offy things.
25	* BigFancyHouse: A very large house owned by a character.
26	* BigLabyrinthineBuilding: A very large building or structure with lots of rooms, which are often difficult to navigate.
27	* CardboardBoxHome: A character lives inside a cardboard box and considers it their home.
28	* 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.
29	* CeilingCorpse: There's a dead body on the ceiling in a HauntedHouse.
30	* ChildhoodHomeRediscovery: A character stumbles upon the place they grew up, opening up the floodgates for old memories.
31	* 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 are an applicable example of the trope.
32	* 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.
33	* DestroyTheAbusiveHome: An abuse survivor destroys the place they grew up in as a form of catharsis.
34	* DingyTrainsideApartment: A cheap, unstable apartment building next to a railway that shakes whenever a train passes near it.
35	* ExtremelyDustyHome: A home caked in dust to show signs of age and neglect.
36	* GadgeteersHouse: A dwelling owned by a GadgeteerGenius, MadScientist, or BunglingInventor which is filled with time-saving devices of their own creation.
37	* GingerbreadHouse: A building made of food, most commonly sweets, and a stock location in fairy tales.
38	* HauntedHouse: A house occupied by ghosts.
39	* AHomeownerIsYou: Video games that let the player buy and/or build personal property.
40	* HouseAmnesia: Telling someone to leave a home while forgetting that it's ''their'' home.
41	* HouseHuntingMontage: A {{montage}} showing a character or group trying out different houses.
42	* 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.
43	* HouseSquatting: A character takes up residence in a house that's not theirs.
44	* HorribleHousing: A small, messy, cramped home that emphasizes the poverty of its inhabitants.
45	* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: A character sees their house from a high place.
46	* LetThePastBurn: The story ends with a fire destroying a building, along with all it represents.
47	* LandmarkDeclarationGambit: A house is declared a landmark and is legally protected from demolition, greedy developers and so on.
48	* LivingInAFurnitureStore: In sitcoms, the characters' houses are always well-organized, clean and tidy, as if they live in a furniture store.
49	* LonelyBachelorPad: An unmarried person's apartment is minimally-furnished and poorly-kept.
50	* MushroomHouse: A house shaped like a mushroom or fungus.
51	* NonResidentialResidence: A character's place of residence technically doesn't count as a house.
52	* OldDarkHouse: A spooky old house cut off from the rest of the world, often serving as the setting for murder mysteries.
53	* PlayingHouse: A game in which young children take on adult roles, trying on adult roles seen around their homes.
54	* ProtectThisHouse: A horror/thriller plot about intruders breaking into a home and the occupants having to fight them off.
55	* SapientHouse: A house is alive and has a mind of its own, and can think and act independently.
56	* SecretSquatter: Someone is secretly living in an already-occupied house, unknown to its "official" inhabitants.
57	* SittingOnTheRoof: A character needs a good place to be alone with their thoughts, so they sit on the top of their house.
58	* SleekHighRiseApartment: A sleek, modern high-rise apartment overlooking a cityscape, usually used to demonstrate its inhabitant's wealth and/or power.
59	* SmartHouse: A fully automated house controlled by a sophisticated computer AI.
60	* StandardizedSitcomHousing: A stock house or apartment layout in a DomCom.
61	* SymbolicGlassHouse: People (almost always rich people) with secrets ironically live in minimalist glass houses, or houses with large glass windows.
62	* TrashyTrailerHome: Trailers are exaggeratedly horrible places to live, and are almost always used as shorthand for a miserable life and/or poverty in fiction. While technically not a house, it still acts as a place of residence for characters.
63	* TreehouseOfFun: Treehouses are typically portrayed in fiction as fun hangout spots, especially for children.
64	* TrespassingHero: The heroes are allowed access into an area that would normally be restricted to them, commonly a private residence.

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