Where the Heart Is: Eight Ways to Transform Your Life at Home, No Matter Where You Live

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Katie McCrory

Where the Heart Is

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ISBN: 9781911709831

Eight Ways to Transform Your Life at Home, No Matter Where You Live

Katie McCrory

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Torva
19 February 2026

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Blending original research with personal experience and practical actions, Where the Heart Is transforms the relationship we have with our home, to unlock happiness and harmony.

If home is where the heart is, why do we neglect our domestic lives?

Amid unattainable interiors trends and a growing housing crisis, it's unsurprising that one in three people don't feel at home where they live, and only 56% experience joy there. Worse still, our feelings about home have a significant bearing on how we feel about ourselves.

The good news? Nothing has to change in our homes for them to feel like a completely different place.

Since 2017, Katie McCrory has led the annual IKEA Life at Home Report, identifying eight universal emotional states that create the 'feeling of home'. Blending personal experience with this global research, and through clear advice and simple strategies, Katie shows us how to cultivate comfort, control, security, accomplishment, belonging, nurture, enjoyment and aspiration - whether we rent or own, live solo or are growing a family.

From reframing our expectations to creating domestic 'zones' that help us accomplish our goals, this clarifying and compassionate roadmap empowers us to rethink our relationship with home, in order to transform our life.

By: Katie McCrory
Imprint: Torva
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 396g
ISBN: 9781911709831
ISBN 10: 1911709836
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katie McCrory is a researcher and storyteller. As the Life at Home Leader at the global headquarters for IKEA in southern Sweden, since 2017 she has led the largest and most distinctive piece of international research into home- the annual IKEA Life at Home Report. She has written and spoken extensively about life at home, ranging from media articles to longform essays and keynote talks. Katie has lived in the UK, US and Denmark, having moved home upward of 25 times. Today, she lives in Copenhagen with her husband, two young children and their enormous housecat.

Reviews for Where the Heart Is: Eight Ways to Transform Your Life at Home, No Matter Where You Live

I absolutely love this book. Understanding the emotional quotient of the places we live is everything to do with feeling at home. * Michelle Ogundehin, author of Happy Inside * Katie McCrory will have you falling in love with your home all over again, without having to lift a paintbrush or a hammer (but you never know, she might also inspire you to do that too!). Where The Heart Is distills years of research into a beautiful and succinct book that will have you ditching the comparison and anxieties around your home and embracing it in all its imperfections. This isn’t just a book about houses, but one about how it feels to be human and the spaces that support the way we want to live our lives. * Penny Wincer, author of Home Matters * Katie puts words to the yearnings, dashed hopes and muddled fears which so many of have felt in our own journeys through the housing helter-skelter. There is both solidarity and action to be gleaned and you will come away from its pages feeling both validated and motivated. Our homes and hearts have always been entwined, a fundamental truth that Katie lays bare. * Katherine Ormerod, author of Your Not Forever Home *