This research focuses on inhabitants of houses in peri-urban areas around Brest, Québec and Nantes-Saint-Nazaire. The field survey carried out highlights the inhabitants’ words to decipher practices and imaginations regarding different places of their daily life. A combination of sociological and ethnographic methods is emphasised, connecting home-based comprehensive interviews, observation and observing participation within a Québec home. Among the residential journeys, the desire to own a property, a house with a garden, is apprehended through imaginations and past, current and projected experiences. Everyday habits can nonetheless be disturbed by relocations, any other event happening in life, or by changes and evolutions of surrounding ...