Types of houses

Parts

Ex. 1. Read and translate the following text.

Unit 3. Inside the house

Idioms

House

1. a building in which people live; residence for human beings.

2. a household.

3. (often initial capital letter ) a family, including ancestors and descendants: the great houses of France; the House of Hapsburg.

4. a building for any purpose: a house of worship.

5. a theater, concert hall, or auditorium: a vaudeville house.

Ex. 2. Read the following idioms with the words “home” and “house”, translate them and use them in the sentences of your own.

bring down the house, to call forth vigorous applause from an audience; be highly successful: The children's performances brought down the house.

dress the house,

a. to fill a theater with many people admitted on free passes; paper the house.

b. to arrange or space the seating of patrons in such a way as to make an audience appear larger or a theater or nightclub more crowded than it actually is.

keep house, to maintain a home; manage a household.

like a house on fire / afire, very quickly; with energy or enthusiasm: The new product took off like a house on fire.

Conclusion: a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included.

Ideally, architects of houses design rooms to meet the needs of the people who will live in the house. Such designing, known as "interior design", has become a popular subject in universities. Feng shui, originally a Chinese method of moving houses according to such factors as rain and micro-climates, has recently expanded its scope to address the design of interior spaces with a view to promoting harmonious effects on the people living inside the house. Feng shui can also mean the "aura" in or around a dwelling. Compare the real-estate sales concept of "indoor-outdoor flow".

The square footage of a house in the United States reports the area of "living space", excluding the garage and other non-living spaces. The "square meters" figure of a house in Europe reports the area of the walls enclosing the home, and thus includes any attached garage and non-living spaces. How many floors, or levels, the home is will play a big role in determining the square footage of a home.

Many houses have several large rooms with specialized functions and several very small rooms for other various reasons. These may include a living/eating area, a sleeping area, and (if suitable facilities and services exist) washing and lavatory areas. Additionally, spa room, indoor pool, indoor basketball goal, and so forth. 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 where they were mainly built, 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).

The names of parts of a house often echo the names of parts of other buildings, but could typically include: