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Definition |
The term home can be used in various contexts. It usually refers to one's choice of housing, any surrounding gardens or outdoor space and the activities undertaken within a home, such as homemaking, gardenning and cooking. It also refers to those living within a home, especially a family.
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House |
A house is a human-made structure intended to be a dwelling for one or more people. It is usually made from a strong and durable material, such as wood or concrete. The main purpose of a house is to provide shelter from heat, cold, wind and rain and protection from animals and other humans. When a house is occupied by one or more people, it is known as a home. Those occupying a home will usually spend time away from home, especially during daylight hours, to work or to pursue recreational and other activities. They will usually spend time at home, especially during night, eating and sleeping.
The first houses were caves of prehistoric times and construction methods have developed continuously over time. Some of the first European houses were simple huts. Today, the construction of houses usually consists of building a wooden frame in a method known as light-frame construction. In areas where there is less wood mud or clay may be used instead.
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Detached Housing |
A detached house is the most common type of house. It is entirely free-standing from neighbouring houses and usually has land, especially a garden, around its perimeter. The detached house is often conveyed as a stereotypical house by media and literature. Simple drawings of houses are usually of a two-storied detached house with a door, window and chimney.
Various types of detached houses include:
- Bungalows, which are single-storied houses.
- Backsplit houses, which are multi-storied at the back but appear single-storied at the front.
- Frontsplit houses, which are multi-storied at the front but appear single-storied at the back.
- Slidesplit houses, which are multi-storied at the front.
- Linked houses, which are built with joined foundation to save costs but appear to be seperate free-standing houses.
- Mansions, which are large expensive homes, including palaces occupied by wealthy individuals.
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Attached Housing |
In many areas, especially inner-city areas, land is expensive and there is limited space available. A lack of space may mean that building detached houses may be impractical and expensive, so smaller houses are build together.
The main solutions to a lack of space are:
- Building connected houses, often built in horizontal rows along a street and in columns on top of each other. Brownstones, Townhouses or Duplex houses are examples of these.
- Single buildings of appartments may be built. Each apartment is a small housing units, often in large buildings in inner city areas or areas where space is limited or heavily demanded.
- Building penthouses on top of current multi-story buildings, especially apartment buildings.
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Urban Living
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Home Economics |
Home economics is a the study of tasks involved in the management of a household, including the homemaking tasks of cooking, cleaning, home improvement, parenting, gardening and shopping. The formal name for home economics is now ramily and consumer sciences, although the people with the most skill in the area have usually not been formally trained but have instead learned the skills at home.
For a long time the study of home economics was reserved for women, as they were seen as being responsbible for household tasks around the home. Women have been and continue to be seen as having more homemaking skills, and until recently the curriculum of girls' schools was dominated by home economics subjects.
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Home Improvement,
Domestic Services
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Families |
Families are groups of people related either naturally by ancestry or legally by marriage and adoption. The role of the family is spiritual through the maternal and kinship love between each and economic through the role each play in providing for one another. Families typically live together and form a large proportion of households in society.
The stereotypical family consists of a mother, father and children, although many people are choosing to not have children or not to marry. The increase in divorce and homosexual relationships has also radically changed the families in society, particularly in developed western nations.
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