Where you live affects what antenna you can have. My previous QTH had a small back garden and virtually no from garden and was surrounded by houses all in very close proximity. My current QTH - whilst still residential is blessed by having a decent sized garden with relative privacy - although I am still unable to have any tower or similar structure. My first QTH taught me loads about antennas - what makes them effective and what must be done when using compromise solutions. Below is the plan view of my old QTH, you can see the 135ft doublet squeezed into a small space! Scroll down the page for more recent updates.
Below is a plan view photo that show the current garden which make the 135ft doublet wire virtually invisible. The centre is mounted on a 40ft sectional fibreglass mast going up the trunk of a birch tree and the two ends fixed to 20ft of sectional mast (now replaced by aluminium scaffold poles). Its fed with approx 50ft of 300ohm ladder line that connects to a 1:1 current balun that then feeds approx 50ft of RG213 to the shack. Still plenty of experimentation to continue with to get it better. 80M full size loop, or maybe a sloper could be next...
2014 Plan view of current QTH - doublet wires are in purple.
2014 Side view of doublet. Main support mast around 40ft, fed with 300ohm ladder line. (apple tree no longer used)
Above is the 2021 Plan view where I continue experimentation and put up a full size 80m loop which has resonance and a large Q on 80, 40, 20, 15 & 10m. I’m quite chuffed. The loop is up with an average height of 25ft and performs remarkably well, I feed it with a 4:1 balun.
Have a look at actual pictures here - QTH Matters part 2