Editing Home (section)

=== House ===
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[[File:8A, Bulevardul Aviatorilor , Bucharest (Romania).jpg|thumb|House at 8A, Bulevardul Aviatorilor, Bucharest, Romania]]

A house is a single-unit residential [[building]]. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary [[hut]] to a complex structure of [[wood]], [[masonry]], [[concrete]] or other material, outfitted with [[plumbing]], electrical, and [[heating, ventilation, and air conditioning]] systems.<ref name=schoenauer>Schoenauer, Norbert (2000). ''6,000 Years of Housing'' (rev. ed.) (New York: W.W. Norton & Company).</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/TTD-113.pdf |title=housing papers |publisher=clerk.house.gov |access-date=18 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117014041/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/TTD-113.pdf |archive-date=17 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The social unit that lives in a house is known as a [[household]]. Most commonly, a household is a [[family]] unit of some kind, although households may also be other [[Group (sociology)|social groups]], such as [[roommate]]s or, in a [[rooming house]], unconnected individuals. Some houses only have a dwelling space for one family or similar-sized group; larger houses called [[townhouse]]s or [[row house]]s may contain numerous family dwellings in the same structure. A house may be accompanied by outbuildings, such as a [[garage (residential)|garage]] for vehicles or a [[shed]] for gardening equipment and tools. A house may have a [[backyard]] or a [[front yard]] or both, which serve as additional areas where inhabitants can relax or eat. Houses may provide "certain activities, which gradually accumulate meaning until they become homes".<ref name=":8" />

[[Joseph Rykwert]] distinguished between home and house in their physicality; a house requires a building whereas a home does not.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rykwert |first=Joseph |date=1991 |title=House and Home |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40970630 |journal=Social Research |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=51–62 |jstor=40970630 |issn=0037-783X}}</ref> ''Home'' and ''house'' are often used interchangeably, although their connotations may differ: ''house'' being "emotionally neutral" and ''home'' evoking "personal, cognitive aspects".<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Dekkers |first=Wim |date=2011 |title=Dwelling, house and home: towards a home-led perspective on dementia care |journal=Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy |language=en |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=291–300 |doi=10.1007/s11019-011-9307-2 |issn=1386-7423 |pmc=3127020 |pmid=21221813}}</ref> By the mid-18th century, the definition of home had extended beyond a house.<ref name=":11" /> "Few English words are filled with the emotional meaning of the word home".<ref name=":10" />