Man’s content to occupy unsound blue villa (8)
I believe the answer is:
bungalow
'villa' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'man's content to occupy unsound blue' is the wordplay.
'content' means to look at the middle letters.
'to occupy' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters occupy or enter the word).
'unsound' becomes 'bung' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'blue' becomes 'low' (both can mean sad).
The middle of 'man' is 'a'.
'bung'+'low'='bunglow'
'a' placed within 'bunglow' is 'BUNGALOW'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bungalow that I've seen before include "Type of house" , "One-storied dwelling" , "One-storied house" , "Low building" , "A one-storey dwelling house" .)