A House is a Home

Home is a place close to everyone's heart, it's where many find the nexus of the family's soul. I've had many places that I've called home and it hasn't always been in the form of four walls and a roof. A shared flat that had more people than beds, rented properties through the ages and even a caravan which encourages social interaction and shared meals.

An apartment shared between two adults and two children are not uncommon these days, or living in a space that you can swing a cat, but has not urban space to grow flowers and plants to let the animal go outside, and children share bunk beds because growing up with your own bedroom is a thing of the past.

Not everyone lives in a house but when you ask a child to draw a house it's often represented by a square for the base and triangle for the roof. Two common shapes they can easily draw and universally recognised in cultural environments.

When you ask children what they think a house should look like, they take inspiration from within their community, such as houses found in the main street, places walked past on their way to school or buildings on a larger scale.

A child may get inspiration from houses, or should I say palaces, of the grand scale found in their favourite storybook, tv show or movie. From my childhood days I always thought that when you are found by a prince then of you go to their forever home.

These houses were made with walls and roof as it was discovered that you do need a solid foundation in order for the structure to be supported and weight distributed evenly. Once this was achieved then individual details were included, such as windows, doorways or imprints.

None of these houses represented where the creator lived but each still heart and soul because of the love used to create them.