Places That Feel Abandoned

Are Easier To Build Than Maintain

Become Somebody’s Responsibility

Change Their Meaning Over Time

Collect Stories

Create Invisible Work

Decay Through Neglect

Depend On Maintenance

Feel Too Quiet

Haunt You

Invite Ownership

Invite Stewardship

Invite Stories

Need A Blueprint

Need A Human Scale

Need A Key

Outlive Excitement

Outlive Their Makers

Pretend To Be Permanent

Punish Neglect

Refuse To Stay Finished

Resist Completion

Reward Maintenance

Reward Stewardship

Tick Without Touching

Turn Space Into Memory

house

smoking

chimney

dad joke

clothing

address

collective noun

phobia

door

pick-up line

wall

Chuck Norris

Cockney Rhyming Slang

divorce

slug

snail

home ownership

laziness

robbery

home invasion

guest

home

hosting

visitor

is built in England with the expectation that his children will live in it. In America we shed our houses as easily as a snail does his shell.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children... while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of. Harriet Beecher Stowe

is a hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

HOUSE: A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

is built to live in, and not to look on... as such, use should be preferred before uniformity.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Francis Bacon

is conservative and about serving comfort, in contrast to the work of art which is revolutionary.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary... the house is conservative.

is made with walls and beams, while a home is built with love and dreams.

A house is made with walls and beams... a home is built with love and dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is not unsentient matter... it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with... and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies... it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with... and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies... it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. Mark Twain

 shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard

house, n.Definitions

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