How did families get their homes?

When a wife and a husband marry, it is time for them to go find a home and make a new life.  Most of the time Nobles granted pieces of land to lesser Nobles or some greater known commoners. Everyone in the family had to work hard to get receive and maintain a nice home. Family members worked together in the fields, in shops, and in their own home. Families would either bargain for land or work for land and lived on plantations or farms. Some times, families would inherit land from their elders.

Families took care of each other, especially the young, the elderly, and the ill. Families who had children usually needed more economic help with the new mouth to feed. Women worked and earned wages to help keep up the house and put food on the table and well as the wages the men and older children earn. Women in the middle ages usually put food on the table but men helped pay for expenses. Families were big but sometimes the homes were small. Nobles lived in elegant home with beautiful furnishing and elaborate art work. Commoners lived in less fancy homes and furnishings were usually bare and dull. Economic value and money played a big role in medieval times.  Money decided if you were a commoner, or a Noble.