beautiful, comfortable, elegant, fancy (esp. AmE), fine, grand, handsome, lovely, luxurious, magnificent, posh (esp. BrE), pretty
dream
They built their own dream house overlooking the river.

dingy, gloomy, ugly
derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, shabby, untidy (BrE)
abandoned
detached, semi-detached
row (AmE), terrace (BrE), terraced (BrE)
big, enormous, gigantic, huge, large, palatial, spacious
rambling
It was easy to get lost in the rambling house.

little, modest, small, tiny
They lived in a modest semi-detached house in the suburbs.

single-storey/single-story, single-storeyed/single-storied, two-storey/two-story, etc.
four-bedroom, four-bedroomed, eight-room, eight-roomed, etc.
brick, gabled (esp. BrE), half-timbered (esp. BrE), red-brick, thatched
expensive
private
council (BrE)
rented
empty, unoccupied, vacant
country, suburban, town (usually townhouse in AmE)
great, manor (BrE), mansion (esp. BrE)
The great house stood on the edge of the town.

farm (usually farmhouse)
ranch (AmE)
tract (AmE)
ancestral
communal, group (AmE), shared (BrE)
I live in a group/shared house (= with people who are not my family).

summer
beach
tree
halfway, safe
a halfway house for prisoners returning to society
The police provided a safe house for the informer.

haunted

live in, occupy
a house occupied by students

share
She shares a house with three other nurses.

buy, rent
sell
have, own
let (esp. BrE), let out (esp. BrE), rent out
We let out our house when we moved to America.
We're only planning on renting the house out for a few years.

repossess (esp. BrE)
Their house was repossessed when they couldn't keep up their mortgage payments.

move (BrE), move into, move out of
It's stressful moving house.
We had to move out of our house.

set up
They want to set up house together.

keep
She kept house (= cooked, cleaned, etc.) for her elderly parents.

play
The children were playing house, giving dinner to their dolls.

build
demolish, knock down, tear down
maintain
decorate (esp. BrE), do up (BrE), redecorate, refurbish, renovate
They bought an old house and are gradually renovating it.

furnish
clean
insulate, rewire
add onto, extend
We're hoping to extend the house.
Our challenge was to add onto the house in a respectful way.

search
Police officers have been searching the house for clues.

wake up
You'll wake up the whole house (= all the people in the house) with that noise.

be situated, lie, stand
The house stood a short distance from the woods.

face sth, overlook sth
The house faces south, making the most of the sun.
houses overlooking the park

loom
The house loomed over him as he waited at the front door.

be worth sth
collapse, fall down
burn down, catch fire, catch on fire (AmE)
come into view

agent (BrE)
buyer, owner
The bank offers attractive rates to first-time house buyers.

tenant (BrE)
building, construction
decoration (BrE), improvement (esp. BrE), renovation, repairs
builder, painter
contents (esp. BrE)
design, plan, planning
hunting
move (esp. BrE)
They helped us with our house move.

prices, rents (esp. BrE), values (esp. BrE)
purchase
sales
insurance (esp. BrE) (usually home insurance in AmE)
front, interior
number
keys
guest
call
In the morning, the doctor makes house calls.

arrest
The former dictator is under house arrest in his country mansion.

dust
blaze (BrE), fire
party
husband
He's happy being a house husband while his wife goes out to work.

plant
fly, mouse, sparrow, etc.

at sb's/the house
I finally tracked him down at his house in Denver.

from house to house
She went from house to house collecting signatures for her campaign.

in a/the house
It was so hot outside we stayed in the house.

empty
full, packed

play to
They played to a packed house.

lights
manager

bring the house down (= please the audience very much)
front of house (= the area used by the audience)
I work front of house.
the front-of-house staff