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This paper describes the construction and standardization of beautiful home scale for higher secondary students. The objective of the study was to develop the tool on beautiful home, determine its validity, reliability and to set the standardized norms to interpret the scores of beautiful home scale. 120 student of higher secondary school, UP board were considered as sample of the study. The first draft of the beautiful home scale consisted 132 items. Researcher administered beautiful home scale on 120 sample for first try out and used t-test for item analysis of the draft beautiful home scale. On the basis of high t value of total 84 items got selected for final Beautiful Home Scale. For establishing the reliability, the data were collected from 115 sample of higher secondary school students from UP board and Test-Retest method, Split-Half method, Spearman Brown formula and Cronbach's Alpha were applied for estimating the reliability of the scale. Reliability of the scale are 0.775, 0.919, 0.918 respectively. Based on the opinion of experts, researcher estimated content validity of the scale. Overall, it is concluded that the scale has good face validity. Intrinsic validity of the tool was 0.88.