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houses standing on their own (detached houses)
houses attached to one other house ( Semi-detached housing (usually abbreviated to semi, as in three-bedroom semi) consists of pairs of houses built side by side as units sharing a party wall and usually in such a way that each houses layout is a mirror image of its twin. ...semi-detached houses)
houses attached to two other houses, possibly in a row ( A street of British terraced housing In architecture and city planning, a terrace, rowhouse, or townhouse (United States) is a style of housing since the late 18th century where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows. ...terraced (GB) or rowhouse (USA) houses).

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Cheese House, Horton, Northamptonshire

In The word Britain is used to refer to the United Kingdom (UK) the island of Great Britain, which consists of the countries of England, Scotland, and Wales sometimes the Roman province called Britain or Britannia The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in either of the...Britain terraced or semi-detached houses are the most common type of accommodation, with 27% of all British people living in a terraced house and 32% in semi-detached houses ( 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2002). In the The word Usa has more than one meaning: U.S.A. - The United States of America Usa, Oita - A city in Japan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...USA in 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...2000, 61.4% of people lived in detached houses and 5.6% in semi-detached houses, the rest living in rowhouses or An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ...apartments, except 7% living in A modern double-wide mobile home Mobile homes are housing units built in factories, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where they will be occupied, usually by being carried by tractor-trailers over public highways. ...mobile homes.

An interesting example of a modern genre of housing is the so called " Cheese House, Horton, Northamptonshire A Cheese House is the nickname given to a type of modern house designed by United Kingdom architects Marshman Warren Taylor for mass middle class housing in England in the 1970s. ...Cheese House" designed by leading UK architects Marshman Warren Taylor was for a while the largest architectural practice in the United Kingdom. ...Marshman Warren Taylor; this was developed for the mass-middle-class market of the 1970's housing boom.

A A treehouse is a structure built in a tree. ...treehouse is built in one or more This article is about the biological organisms known as trees. ...trees; though its most common use is a Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...fort or Playhouse is a common Elizabethan term for a theatre. ...playhouse for A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...children, it is increasingly commonly used as a house for See Adult. ...adults.

Inside the House

Typical House Floor Plan File links The following pages link to this file: House Floor plan ...

Houses consist of many specific designated A room is an enclosed space in a house or other building. ...rooms. Each house will at least contain a A bedroom is a room used primarily for sleep, rest or sexual activities. ...bedroom, A typical American bathroom A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the cultural context it is used in. ...bathroom, A kitchen is a room used for food preparation. ...kitchen, and a A living room is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV, or other activities. ...living room. These rooms should be designed to meet the needs of the people who live in the house. This designing is known as Interior design is a multi_faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. ...interior design and it is a popular subject in universities. In Chinese, Fēng Shuǐ (風水 – literally, wind and water pronounced fung shuway), which may be more than 3000 years old, is the ancient practice of placement to achieve harmony with the environment. ...Feng shui is a method of designing house interiors so they can give harmonious effects to the people living inside the house.

Shelters

Forms of shelter simpler than a house include A dugout or dug_out is a shelter dug out of the ground. ...dugouts, A tent is a temporary or semipermanent shelter, consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over or attached to a frame of poles. ...tents (see also The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. ...camp), A camper can be one of several things: an automobile used for camping, see recreational vehicle a trailer used for camping, see travel trailer a person who engages in camping a reference to the alternative rock band named Camper Van Beethoven in online games, a player who stays in one...campers, huts, A roof is the top covering of a building that prevents the ingress of weather into the building interior. ...roofs without This article is about structural, boundary and retaining walls. ...walls, or a structure with roof and partial walls, such as often at a The term bus stop may refer to: Bus stop _ for buses Bus Stop (movie) Bus Stop (dance) Bus Stop (record label), Iowa City, Iowa Bus Stop (song), a 1966 single by The Hollies This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...bus stop (see picture there), and a Picture of Church Square Parks gazebo in Hoboken, New Jersey. ...gazebo.

Construction

Popular modern house construction techniques include A wooden_frame detached house under construction Light_frame construction is a building technique based around structural members, usually called studs, which provide a stable frame to which interior and exterior wall coverings are attached, and covered by a roof comprising horizontal joists or sloping rafters covered by various sheathing...light_frame construction in areas with access to supplies of wood, and This page deals with adobe, the construction material. ...adobe or sometimes Rammed_earth construction is a technique used in the creation of a house. ...rammed_earth construction in arid regions with scarce wood resources.

Alternative building structures have recently gained (or regained) popularity in recent years. Examples of these are Cordwood construction is a term used for a building where cordwood or firewood_length pieces of un_lumbered trees are used in wall construction with mortar between the lengths. ...cordwood construction, Straw_bale construction is a building method that uses straw bales as structural elements, insulation, or both. ...straw bale construction, and The American Pavilion of Expo 67, by R. Buckminster Fuller, now the Biosphère, on Île Sainte_Hélène, Montreal A geodesic dome is an almost spherical structure based on a network of struts arranged on great circles (geodesics) lying on the surface of a sphere. ...geodesic domes.

Animal houses

Humans often build houses for domestic or wild animals, often resembling smaller versions of human domiciles. Familiar animal houses built by humans include bird houses and dog houses, while domiciles for agricultural animals are more often called A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. ...barns.

However, Human interest in building houses for animals does not stop at the domestic pet. Bird houses, Bat Houses, Nesting sites for wild ducks, and more.

Usage in language

As a verb, to house (pronounced "howz") is to provide a routine locale for an object, a person or an organization. Historic or artistic artifacts, for example, are said to be housed in museums. A business may be housed in a storefront, or a family may be housed in an apartment or a house. A collection of domiciles, either for persons, for organizations, for animals or for objects, is often called housing. An individual person or a single object might also find housing in an appropriate In astrology, domicile, rulership or house is the strongest essential dignity of a planet. ...domicile.

In English the word "house" on its own usually refers to a dwelling for one family, or for more than one family living together, sharing the house. In other languages the translation for "house" often covers other types of building such as tower blocks or commercial property: in German, for example, a "Haus" can also refer to a hotel or a block of flats.

In English, the word "house" can be used in combination with other words to describe buildings other than residential dwellings, such as an An opera house is a building where opera and other forms of performing arts are performed. ...opera house, a "monkey house" (a building for several cages) in a zoo, etc. A "madhouse" is a disparaging term for a A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...mental hospital or A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ...insane asylum (also see The word house refers to: A type of residential building, see house. ...House (disambiguation) for more.) The This page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). ...White House also has only a secondary use as a dwelling.

A house is also called a home, but a house is not a home. Home has a more This article is about the concept of abstraction in general. ...abstract and Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...poetic meaning.

Heraldry

The house is an exceedingly rare charge in Heraldry is the science and art of describing of coats_of_arms, also referred to as achievements or armorial bearings. ...heraldry.

External link

Photos of rare houses at Singleton Wealdland and Downland Museum, Nr Chichester (http://y2u.co.uk/&002-Images/Downland-Museum%2001.htm)
New Home Builder in North America (http://www.khov.com)

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ABODE - LoveToKnow Article on ABODE (190 words)
	In English law this term has a more restricted meaning than domicile, being used to indicate the place of a man's residence or business, whether that be either temporary or permanent.
	The law may regard for certain purposes, as a man's abode, the place where he carries on business, though he may reside elsewhere; so that the term has come to have a looser significance than residence, which has been defined as " where a man lives with his family and sleeps at night" (R. v.
	Hammond, 1852, 17 Q.B. In serving a notice of action, a solicitor's place of business may be given as his abode (Roberts v.

the abode (1091 words)
	okay, so the abode beautification project blog was down for awhile...
	many things are going on at the abode now that andy has completed his first year of school and i'm not working at the scrapbook store on the weekends.
	since i've begun my new side projects with the local scrapbook store, and andy is nearing the end of his fourth block, work at the abode as slowed to almost a complete stop.

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