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Whether you consider a house comfortable depends more on you than the house. But it is pretty easy to describe a medieval house so you can determine whether you would be comfortable in it.
Most people were serfs. A serf's house differed from a log cabin with a dirt floor in a couple of important ways. One is that the serf's house had no fireplace. They just built a fire in the middle of the floor and let the smoke go out through a hole in the roof or under the roof peaks. The other difference is that they had no glass in the windows.
If you want to think that is comfortable, then you are allowed to do so.
Or, maybe you want to know if the house of a wealthy person was comfortable. For most of the Middle Ages, the wealthy person's house differed from the serf's because it had its fire in a brazier on top of a stone or tile floor, and it might have had glass in the windows. The wealthy had servants, of course, but they still did not have electricity or Plumbing. After the 12th century, when the fireplace chimney was invented, wealthy people could be cozy.
You should bear in mind, however, that none of this was any worse than how people lived under the Roman Empire, and not much worse than how people lived on the American frontier.
Chamber pot were dumped out the window
2nd answer: This is a common bit of misinformation, but it is not true. Medieval people found sewage just as unpleasant as we do. Sanitary facilities were typically an outbuilding built over a cesspit. Some building did have indoor privies, which used a chute to deliver waist to a pit. When the cesspits were full they were mucked out and the materials transported to locations outside of town where farmers could use it for fertilizer.
Gray water, on the other hand, (meaning non-sewage waste water such as from laundry or washing) might be dumped into the gutters.
In addition to not putting sewage into the streets, medieval people instituted systems for other public issues. Town records show those blocking gutters or streets with refuse could be brought up on charges by their neighbors. By the latter middle ages many cities had established regular trash cart and dung cart services to remove garbage and animal waste from public areas.
Rooms were cold, smoky, and dim because fireplaces were the only source of heat and the main source of light.
Because rooms were cold smokey and dim because fire places were the only sources of light and also because for poor people it was mostly mostly over crowded with two or more families
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