People say a house is not a home until you care for it, or until someone special you love is now living there. A home is when you carefully decide what is going in each room, maybe planning out a baby room for newly weds, or converting an old bedroom in to a study. A home is when everything inside means something to you. You believe it is special and sentimental to have photos on the wall and your high school scrapbook in your draw to occasionally pull out and look at. This is why protecting your home is important, otherwise it just becomes a house, a place or a building.
Some people install double-glazing to their windows, others take out home insurance while some put an alarm in their house. Each one of these makes it less damageable if anything were to happen.
This kind of protection is also for those people who have just got a flat and have filled it with all their expensive gadgets, computers and designer clothes. Having insurance would help claim back any losses. Equally, people like to protect their house if they believe they like in a bad area, prone to break-ins.
A house becomes a home when you feel comfortable and relaxed. For young, loved up couples, it is a time for romance and freedom. They are not bothered about how messy a place is, because it can be tidied up another day. They can go wild and chose any furniture or painting they like for the lounge, because it was random and fun. They can spend a whole weekend in each other’s arms without even leaving the house because everything they need is right there. Little signs of their partner are dotted about everywhere; an empty cup of theirs, a sock, or lipstick stains on a glass. It is times like this when they realize, it has become their very own cozy nest and nowhere in the world would compare to it.
When a child leaves home for the first time, it is a difficult moment for both parent and child. The child will always consider it their home and the parents will refer to the room as their child’s room. When they visit home from university and see their old bedroom, the smell, the layout and the dusty old clock, remains exactly as they left it. There is still a sense of comfort, which will never go away. Their family home holds so many memories, which could never be replaced. That dent on the wall where your dad hammered nails, blu-tack stains where you stuck posters in your bedroom and all the memories of summer parties and family BBQ’s in the garden. It is when all these memories are special to you, that a building, a house or a flat becomes your comfort and your home.