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The society is going through an extensive digitalization process where many services, products and ways to communicate are digitized and increasingly brought into the home. There are many benefits with this, such as increased efficiency and accessibility, but it also brings challenges with privacy, data management and the need for new competences to manage these new processes. Further, there are challenges linked to inequality and autonomy, both within the households and in the wider society. This PhD project is concerned with how internet connected devices in homes, such as smart assistants, smart lights, smart door locks and robot vacuums, are integrated into the Norwegian households’ everyday life and how this may contribute to such challenges as mentioned above. Combining theories of practice and domestication theory, the project seeks to unpack everyday life with smart home technologies and explore how it affects and is affected by social dynamics and human-technology relations.