Wikia

Welcome to the Home Wiki!

We're glad to have you here!
This is an interactive site where people can contribute their knowledge about homes - care, residents, maintenance, improvements, furnishings and more. Visitors to this site have created 724 articles since May 2008.

We welcome your contributions, have a look at the "Helping out" section below for some direction on where to get started. Do you have a tip to share? If you're not sure where to post something, feel free to start a new topic, add to one or ask a question on the discussion forums.

Are you interested in home automation? Cookies? Style or decorating? Reducing clutter? The wii or other games?

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN OUR POLL BELOW!

Contents (all pages)

New articles...

Could you add to...?

Future topics - add your suggestions for topics here

Poll

Featured quote

"A good home must be made, not bought."
-- Joyce Maynard, Domestic Affairs

Vote for the next featured quote.

Featured article

	Cookie
	For many people the smell of fresh baked cookies is the smell of home and happy celebrations. They are treats. In many parts of the world, they are called "biscuits".… (See more.)
Would you like to vote on our next Featured article? See previously featured articles.

Featured media

Current featured media item:

Would you like to vote for the next featured media?

Featured video

Small space, big style design ideas...

Milestones on the Home Wiki

May 2012 / The Home Wiki celebrates its 4th year! The stub articles are down to 20%, and the 700 article was created.
March 2012 / The Home Wiki now has 500 non-stub articles.
November 2009 / The Home Wiki is featured in the Wikia Spotlight. (An earlier feature hit a glitch and was removed early.)
July 2009 / The 400th article is created.
May 2008 / The Home Wiki is Started!

See additional milestones.

What belongs in this wiki?

This wiki is about homes. Here are some of the categories and topics that people have contributed:

People - who make a place a home
Structures - types of buildings or shelters that can be made into a home
Furniture - kinds of furniture commonly found in a home
Decorating - ways to change the appearance of your home
Infrastructure - components that make the structure function: electricity, plumbing, etc.
How to make a shelter into a home - making it comfy, safe, a place you want to be -- what's a good name for related category (or categories)? What makes a place a home?
Uses of a home - shelter, entertaining
Other: household chores, maintenance, improvements, "how to", helpful hints, buying a house (or condo or...), selecting an apartment, cleaning, home automation and home inspection, quotes about "home"

Live newsfeeds

RefreshSee more >

Home improvement

Loading RSS data...

Home decorating

Loading RSS data...

Home remedies

Loading RSS data...

User blogs

Create blog post

Refresh

0

What For Home is Boring?
August 5, 2012 by Blackberryboy

Tell Me It Can Be anything even Homeless!
Read more >
1

why hello there!
October 22, 2011 by CXXX

I am now joining this wiki, (odviase by my edits) and am learning to clean my house (lolz?) so...well...Hello! CXXX the, Lord 20:51, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
Read more >

Helping out

To write a new article, just enter the title in the box below.

Notes: Before you create a new article, it's a good idea to search for the topic to see if someone has already started an article that you can improve. Articles that are irrelevant to the subject of home will be deleted.

Not sure where to start?

Find out more about the wiki on the About page.
If you are new to wikis, check out the tutorial.
See "Stubs" for articles that have been started, but are substantially incomplete, and "Wanted Articles" for pages with links to them, but no content yet. Your help filling in these gaps would be appreciated.