My headcanon is that they have various houses, and they share them all, and they're of various styles, because Natasha can live pretty much everywhere and Clint doesn't really mind. So, in order of how personalized they are:

1. SHIELD quarters. Clinical, almost empty. Each of them lived there only during their first months at SHIELD and bolted out as soon as the paychecks started coming in and they were able to rent a flat (or, in Natasha's case, as soon as her probationary period was over and she was permitted to live outside of the base). Now they only keep a few clothes, a change of sheets and some hidden guns and knives.

2. Stark Tower apartments. Clinical and almost empty at the beginning, now they're gradually turning into a home. I think that both Clint and Natasha lean towards the traditional side, so in order to balance the high tech design they both bought wooden furniture and an iron bed and, I don't know, Natasha made Tony build pre-war style bookcases to the walls? Or something like that.

3. Clint's farm. Look guys I hated the Barton family thing, but that house was awesome. It has everything a house should have: big windows, an open plan ground floor, and a garden. So in my mind this thing belonged to Clint's grandparents and now they go there to relax and detox, and it's full of books and pillows and records and chipped ceramic dishes, and a stack of photographs that once helped Jasper Sitwell become a decent human being (On Duality). Also this is where Natasha finally came to terms with the fact that letting go and hooking up with someone you have feelings for is not so very terrifying after all (Don't Go To Strangers).

4. A little house in a Mediterranean island. They say write what you know, right? So what I know best, and love, is tiny whitewashed houses with very thick stone walls and concrete floors (which were not built like this out of a sense of interior design, but because people were really poor back then and couldn't afford wood). Small windows which keep the cold and the heat out, and iron window frames (again, due to lack of other means). Not the best in terms of comfort, but so very simple that they somehow elevate all surrounding experiences to an unusual sensory level. Even food tastes better! So, Natasha might be a creature that loves comfort, but she doesn't give a damn, because living in a place by the sea means that everything seems clean and bright new every morning, as if the waves came in at night and washed away all the activities of the previous day. And this, somehow, helps. (The Fig Tree)

5. Venice. I love everything that is set in Venice, and I'm sure that Natasha has a flat there - in the quiet, less touristy part of the town, top floor, excellent sightlines, easy access to the neighboring buildings' roofs. Also Singapore? And maybe Munich. Clint just prefers to use SHIELD's safehouses, and he finds it really amusing that Natasha keeps a stash of decent wine in all of hers. That's a bit rich from a person who keeps Nutella jars in virtually every SHIELD's safehouse all over the world, but the nutritional value of Nutella is way higher than wine's, so there.

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Honestly, I adore the way you write locations. You give them such a rich history and design and make them come to life as much as the characters.

Hey thanks! The location is the first thing I pin down in my mind when writing a scene. I can't move to the dialogue if I don't know yet just where the table is...

SECONDED <3

OH the farm! And Clint's fixing things up obsession.

I love how you embed a sense of place in your writing and all the little details. And i'm a sucker for Venice as a location; just auch an interesting ciry. So much history, but now mostly populated by tourists, and sinking..