HE 507 Housing and Interior Decoration

HOUSE & HOME

DEFINED
by :

MA. AMI RIZA M. LAURDAUS

Maed Student
What are the
Differences between
House and Home?
HOUSE
In the proper definition, a house is defined as a

building or structure, whose main purpose is to be

occupied for habitation by humans.
The house can be a stand-alone structure, a row

house or a part of a community and can have a

single floor or multiple floors.
The term house is derived from the Old English

word, Hus meaning, Dwelling, shelter, home,

house.
A house has multiple bedrooms and bathrooms

and can also have a basement, an attic or a garage

depending on the architecture of the house.
Houses are bigger compared to apartments,
motor homes and trailers, while smaller
compared to villas and castles.
A house may or may not be a home.
A house is concrete. House refers to a building in
which someone lives. - there's no particular
emotional aspect to it.
There is a saying that goes: A house in which
nobody lives is nobody's home.
HOME
On the other hand, a home is the place of residence
or refuge. It can be a house, trailer, motor home,
apartment or any place that a person is comfortable
in residing.
A persons most personal belongings are kept in a
home and it is where a person feels safe and accepted.
A home has a more psychological impact, compared
to physical. Experts believe that a home has a lot of
influence on a persons behavior, emotions, and
overall mental health. If a person is away from home
for an extended period of time, he may start feeling
homesick, which can cause a person to feel actual
symptoms of illness.
A home can refer either to a building or to any location that
a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that
belongs to her. A home can be a house or an apartment, but
it could also be a tent, a boat, or an underground cave.
A home can even be something abstract, a place in your
mind. When you say, Lets go home, you are probably not
talking simply about going to the physical structure where
you live. You are talking about being in the special place
where you feel most comfortable and that belongs to you.
A home is a place where you have created a living for
yourself, you are attached to it emotionally, it somehow
becomes a part of you - it carries the notion of comfort,
security, happiness and the like.
Key Difference

In a nutshell, a house is basically a structure that has been

designed to allow it to be inhabited by humans. A person who
lives in the house, where he feels safe, comforted and has private
possessions is what a home is. A home can be a house, but not
every house is a home.A persons most personal belongings are
kept in a home and it is where a person feels safe and accepted.

It's also important to remember that people make their homes in

places other than houses like caves, cliff dwellings, huts, igloos,
wigwams, etc. It's what you make of that place that counts and is
special enough to call it a home.
TYPES OF HOUSES
A. DETACHED HOUSE
B. ATTACHED HOUSE
C. TRADITIONAL HOUSE
 Detached House
A single-family detached home, also called a single-
detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or
separate house is a free-standing residential building. It
is defined in opposition to a multi-family residential dwelling.
It is a residential building.
Generally found in less dense urban areas, the suburbs
of cities, and rural areas.
Surrounded by a garden.
Garages can also be found.
1. A-frame house

An A-frame
house is an
architectural house
style featuring steeply-
angled sides (roofline)
that usually begin at or
near the foundation
line, and meet at the
top in the shape of the
letter A.
 2. Airey House

An Airey house is a type

of prefabricated house built in Great
Britain following the Second World
War.
Designed by Sir Edwin Airey to
the Ministry of Works Emergency
Factory Made housing programme, it
features a frame of prefabricated
concrete columns reinforced with
tubing recycled from the frames of
military vehicles. A series
of shiplap style concrete panels, tied
back to the columns, form the
external envelope.
3. American Craftsman
The American
Craftsman style, or the
American Arts and Crafts
movement, is an American
domestic architectural, interi
or design, landscape
design, applied arts,
and decorative arts style and
lifestyle philosophy that
began in the last years of the
19th century. As a
comprehensive design and
art movement it remained
popular into the 1930s.
However, in decorative arts
and architectural design it
has continued with
numerous revivals and
restoration projects through
present times.
4. American Foursquare

The hallmarks of the

style include a basically
square, boxy design,
two-and-one-half
stories high, usually
with four large, boxy
rooms to a floor, a
center dormer, and a
large front porch with
wide stairs.
5. Barndominium
A non-traditional
structure, the
barndominium is a steel
frame and sheet metal
building, originally
designed as a storage
building or barn structure
that has been repurposed
by the addition of living
areas to previously open
space. This type of building
is typically built on an
existing property and the
structure often acts as a
dual purpose living and
shop or workspace areas.
6. Bungalow

A bungalow is a
house which is all
on ground level.
Traditionally small,
but today it can be
quite large
 7. Castle

A castle (from Latin: cas

tellum) is a type
of fortified structure
built in Europe and
the Middle East during
the Middle
Ages by nobility.
Scholars debate the
scope of the word castle,
but usually consider it to
be the private fortified
residence of a lord or
noble.
8. Log House

A log house (or log

home) is structurally
identical to a log cabin (a
house typically made
from logs that have not
been milled into
conventional lumber). The
term "log cabin" is not
preferred by most
contemporary builders, as
it generally refers to a
smaller, more rustic log
house such as a hunting
cabin in the woods, or
a summer cottage.
9. Mansion

A mansion is
a large dwelling house
for the wealthy.
10.Octagon House

Octagon houses were

a unique house style
briefly popular in the
1850s in the United
States and Canada.
They are characterised
by an octagonal (eight-
sided) plan, and often
feature a flat roof and
a veranda all round.
11. Spanish Colonial Revival Style

The best example of

the Spanish Colonial
Revival architecture and
California mission style is
the famed Manila
Hotel designed by William
E. Parsons and built in
1909.
12. Stilt House

Stilt houses or pile

dwellings or
palafitte are houses
raised on piles over the
surface of the soil or a
body of water. Stilt houses
are built primarily as a
protection
against flooding but also
serve to keep
out vermin The shady
space under the house can
be used for work or
storage.
13. Villa

A villa was
originally an ancient
Roman upper-
class country house.
Since its origins in
the Roman villa, the
idea and function of a
villa have evolved
considerably.
 Attached House
Structure which shares a common wall or walls with
another unit. Some examples of attached dwellings are;
townhomes, condominiums, row houses, apartment buildings
and high-rise residential towers. Many of this style of dwelling
features common grounds, either shared or jointly owned.
1. Duplex

Duplex house is
a dwelling having
apartments with
separate entrances for
two households.
2. Apartment

An apartment ) is
a self-
contained housing unit
(a type of
residential real estate)
that occupies only part
of a building. Such a
building may be called
an apartment
building, apartment
complexe. Apartments
may be owned by
an owner/occupier, by
leasehold tenure or
rented by tenants (two
types of housing
tenure).
3.Condominium

a multi-unit
building, with the
individual's unit
privately owned,
and the building
and land owned by
all individual unit
owners. This is a
form of ownership
rather than a style
of home.
Traditional House in
the Philippines
BAHAY KUBO

Type of House originated in the Philippines.

Characteristics of an Ideal House
1. An idyllic house should meet the physical and social needs
of the family.
2. Rooms in the house should neither be too small nor too
big, but spacious enough.
3. There should be wide enough windows for proper
ventilation and lighting will aid in contributing to the familys
good health.
4. It should have sufficient supply of water for mundane tasks
such as laundering, bathing and other personal needs of the
family.
5. Work Areas should be planned to prevent crowded space
and walking back and forth from one place to another.
20 COOLEST Houses In The World
 A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire
for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin.

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