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Home generally refers to a shelter or
building that is single family detached dwelling or place for habitation by
human beings. "Homes" on the other hand include many kinds of dwellings ranging
from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings.[1]
However, the word can also be used as a verb ("to house"), and can have
adjectival formations as well. In some contexts, "house" may mean the same as
dwelling, residence, home, abode, accommodation, housing, lodging, among other
meanings. A house is where some people live (most).
The social unit that lives in a house is known as a household. Most commonly, a
household is a family unit of some kind, though households can be other social
groups, such as single persons, or groups of unrelated individuals. Settled
agrarian and industrial societies are composed of household units living
permanently in housing of various types, according to a variety of forms of Land
tenure. English-speaking people generally call any building they routinely
occupy "home". Many people leave their house during the day for work and
recreation but typically return to it to sleep or for other activities.
In the
United States, modern house-construction techniques include light-frame
construction (in areas with access to supplies of wood) and adobe or sometimes
rammed-earth construction (in arid regions with scarce wood-resources). Some
areas use brick almost exclusively, and quarried stone has long provided
walling. To some extent, aluminum and steel have displaced some traditional
building materials. Increasingly popular alternative construction materials
include insulating concrete forms (foam forms filled with concrete), structural
insulated panels (foam panels faced with oriented strand board or fiber cement),
and light-gauge steel framing and heavy-gauge steel framing.
More generally, people often build houses out of the nearest available material,
and often tradition and/or culture govern construction-materials, so whole
towns, areas, counties or even states/countries may be built out of one main
type of material. For example, a large fraction of American houses use wood,
while most British and many European houses utilize stone or brick.
In the 1900s, some house designers started using prefabrication. Sears, Roebuck
& Co. first marketed their Houses by Mail to the general public in 1908. Prefab
techniques became popular after World War II. First small inside rooms framing,
then later, whole walls were prefabricated and carried to the construction site.
The original impetus was to use the labor force inside a shelter during
inclement weather. More recently builders have begun to collaborate with
structural engineers who use computers and finite element analysis to design
prefabricated steel-framed homes with known resistance to high wind-loads and
seismic forces. These newer products provide labor savings, more consistent
quality, and possibly accelerated construction processes.
 Many houses have several rooms with specialized functions. These may include a living/eating area, a sleeping area, and (if suitable facilities and services exist) washing and lavatory areas. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as chickens or larger livestock (like cattle) often share part of the house with human beings. Most conventional modern houses will at least contain a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen (or kitchen area), and a living room. A typical "foursquare house" (as pictured) occurred commonly in the early history of the United States of America, with a staircase in the center of the house, surrounded by four rooms, and connected to other sections of the house (including in more recent eras a garage).
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