House and Home ?

House and home are two words that usually used to show a place where we live with our family. But did you know, actually both of them have different contextual meaning?

Based on Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, House is building for people to live in, usually for a small family. Based on that definition, we can see that house is a real building where a family live with its properties. Thus, when we are talking about house means we are only talking about the physically condition of it, whether it made of wood, wall, and so on and do not talk the way of family’s living.

Home is used to refer to a family living together and the way it behaves. Means that we are talking about how a family live in a house, are they happy, are they sad, are they harmony or not. It defines the atmosphere of a family living in a house. It of course has a very different meaning.

A great and luxurious house doesn’t mean has a good quality of home. Sometimes we think that we will be more comfortable if we live in a great house, actually it’s not. It will be profitless if the family who lives in that house doesn’t love each other and don’t taking care each other. On the other side, a small house with no good properties on it, it can be a nice home if the way of family living is full of love and taking care each other. For examples, parent teaches the daughter to be discipline, get dinner together, sharing about anything related to the daughter’s development, so the growth of daughter is controlled.

In brief, house is a place or building where the family gathers to safe from hot and rain. Meanwhile, home is the atmosphere that felt in the house, whether full of love or not. However, house is a very important place because the family member, especially children, will made up the character from their environment, and house is the first environment that they seen.