The TR Company

HOUSE AND HOME

6/8/19 HOUSE AND HOME

House is an emotionally neutral word: it just refers to a particular type of building. Home is used mostly in more personal senses: it is the place somebody lives in, and can express the idea of emotional attachment to a place. Compare:

• There are some horrible new houses in our neighborhood.
• I lived there for six years, but I never really felt it was my home.