"Home is where your heart is." Pliny the Elder
It has been years since I visited my hometown and it's that very house in that small town, where we two sisters grew up, fought and played pranks. It was in that very house where we achieved many of our childhood milestones. It was probably the longest time I have ever stayed in one house. Over the years, we have moved to so many different apartments but I still remember each one of them. I don't remember how many windows my previous apartment had, but I remember what beautiful views it offered, I don't remember the size of my drawing room, but I remember every corner wherein echoed my child's laughter, I don't remember how big the dining room was, but I remember the parties we hosted and the fun we had with our friends in the dining area. I remember our previous houses, not for their architectural details but for the comfort it offered. Wherever I am, at the end of the day, I always want to return to that enclosed space called my home.
Somebody has truly said - a house is built with walls and beams, a home is made of love and dreams.
Here's some interesting stuff I found about homes:
- In parts of Germany and Poland, when a couple marries, the guests break a whole lot of porcelain in front of the bride's home to symbolize the struggles the new couple will face as they build a home together. It's called 'Polterabend'.
- Brass door-knobs disinfect themselves. It's called oligodynamic effect. The ions in the metal have a toxic effect on spores, fungi, virus, germs, etc and eliminate them within eight hours.
- The original house-warming party was indeed house-warming. The guests brought firewood as gifts and lit fires in all the fireplaces in the home not just to warm up the place for the family but also to ward off evil spirits.
- A red front door symbolizes many things: the ancient Hebrews believed it would protect their first born children from the angel of death, for the early Americans it meant the home was a safe place for travelers to stop for night.
- According to Feng Shui, a red front door invites positive energy into a home.
- In Scotland, homeowners paint their front door red when they pay off their mortgage.
- According to an old superstition, if a bird flies into a home, death is soon to follow.
- The people of Easter Island have a word 'tingo', which means to 'to take objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them until there's nothing left'. Now that's what I call true friendship!
- Chinese 3D printing construction company WinSun successfully put up a 5-storey apartment, an 11,840 square foot villa, and 10 small houses, in a single day using quick-drying cement and recycled industrialized waste.
Have a Homy Day!
- In parts of Germany and Poland, when a couple marries, the guests break a whole lot of porcelain in front of the bride's home to symbolize the struggles the new couple will face as they build a home together. It's called 'Polterabend'.
- Brass door-knobs disinfect themselves. It's called oligodynamic effect. The ions in the metal have a toxic effect on spores, fungi, virus, germs, etc and eliminate them within eight hours.
- The original house-warming party was indeed house-warming. The guests brought firewood as gifts and lit fires in all the fireplaces in the home not just to warm up the place for the family but also to ward off evil spirits.
- A red front door symbolizes many things: the ancient Hebrews believed it would protect their first born children from the angel of death, for the early Americans it meant the home was a safe place for travelers to stop for night.
- According to Feng Shui, a red front door invites positive energy into a home.
- In Scotland, homeowners paint their front door red when they pay off their mortgage.
- According to an old superstition, if a bird flies into a home, death is soon to follow.
- The people of Easter Island have a word 'tingo', which means to 'to take objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them until there's nothing left'. Now that's what I call true friendship!
- Chinese 3D printing construction company WinSun successfully put up a 5-storey apartment, an 11,840 square foot villa, and 10 small houses, in a single day using quick-drying cement and recycled industrialized waste.
Have a Homy Day!
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