Built from Within

House and home, two different words, with two different meanings. A house is a place built for people to live, but a home is more than just a building. Homes are built from within. Homes can be people, sounds, scents, tastes, places and pictures. You can feel at home...

What Makes a House a Home?

What is it that makes a simple house into a home? What are the feats that make your house distinct from all the other houses to where it becomes a home? What makes it different is that your house is your personal little area in this vast world. With your house you are...

The place I never wanted to call home

The first time I stepped foot in my new house, it felt huge and quiet. Sounds echoed and bounced off the walls. It was brand new, not a single-family has lived here. The house has a big blue door, with a small window. Just small enough to peak your eyes through. Huge...

Goldilocks’s House

I have a house that I call my home. I feel calm there. I feel safe there. I feel welcome, like I belong. I feel more comfortable in my home than I feel everywhere else. It’s as if the atmosphere in my home is different than the rest of the world. My home has its...

A place of love

While pondering this question and trying to decide how I was going to write this essay, I decided to look up both the definitions for a house and a home. According to Google, a house is “A building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a...