As a part of Migration and domestic space, an Open Access collection of “ethnographies of home in the making” among migrants and refugees edited by P. Boccagni and S. Bonfanti, Chapter 2 by Adriano Cancellieri reflects on homemaking within a multicultural condominium in central Italy. Hotel House, located in the small town of Porto Recanati, is home to almost 2000 people, 95% of them migrants. The study was carried out through a lengthy participant observation within both the domestic and communal spaces of the condominium. Reflecting on the research work conducted in Hotel House, the chapter explores four main aspects: (a) the ethical and practical implications of entering other people’s homes, focusing the analysis on the field access and the researcher’s positionality; (b) the daily material and affective construction of multisensory atmospheres and landscapes in the domestic spaces of Hotel House; (c) the ambivalence of the practices of sociability and mutual aid that take place in the domestic spaces of Hotel House, with particular regard to Senegalese families; (d) the multiscalarity of homemaking and its potential emergence outside of the boundaries of domestic spaces.