Home in the house by Natalia Holvova

Real-estate situation in America is going through tough period. Mortgages are not paid properly and people are loosing their houses. Foreclosed houses are bought by all kinds of people who have any interest in fixing houses and selling them again with at least small profit. It the house fixing only about fixing walls, roofs and other parts of the house? How is the house becoming home? In some of the foreclosed houses new owners find object that remain in the house from former house-dwellers. These could be pictures, clothes, souvenirs and other stuff that remind us that real people used to live there. How do we make the place where we live our homes? What do we do to become a part of the house or to print the stamp of our touch into every single piece of the furniture? We need a home! House is not enough to make our lives full and rich. We need a place we can crash at, place that we can cry in, place we can enjoy happy moments in, place we know it is always there. When I come back home to my parents house I feel like home. This is not about the house, it is not about the furniture and pictures on the walls. This is about the feeling of the safeness, coziness, friendship, roots and memories. When I sit under my window and look on the street I know I am home, at the place I belong to. This is home. This is something no house fixing makes. This is the atmosphere we need to create and keep!

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071202/ap_on_bi_ge/foreclosure_rehabbers;_ylt=Auf0v2A0hoeP6Z_wefzDSnas0NUE

by Natalia Holvova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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