It will be a little different to have a house. I haven't had an in game house in an mmo since Final Fantasy XI. Now that you can use your furniture and design your own house, and build stuff on your land that produces crafting resources, most people may use this as a place to craft. I would like to use mine as a place for Guild get togethers and a place to meet RMTs should I need a quick fix of gold.
I would like to use my house for challenges, resources, and portals to dungeons. I think it's such a great feature to the game and it will be good for people that don't necessarily like combat (I like both) but like games like Minecraft where they get to be creative.
My will be my crafting hub and since that's what I like doing the most in MMO's I expect to spend lots of time there
Looks like we can get a sort of garden in our house which we can use to plant resources to make potions... Looks like I have to put on my gardening hat!