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- My house
I love my home very much. I feel very comfortable and calm in it. My most beloved, dear and friendly family lives there.
What does the expression “my home” mean to me? It's not just the walls surrounding me, the ceiling above my head and the floor under my feet. No, that's not the most important thing. The most important thing for me is the surrounding atmosphere in which we live.
We live in a small three-room apartment with two bedrooms. One of which belongs to me, and the second to my parents. There is a room where we gather in the evenings or on weekends with the whole family and talk and discuss interesting topics and watch TV. We also receive guests in the hall.
Mom’s favorite place in our house is the kitchen. Mom spends most of her time after work in the kitchen. My mother loves to cook and bake, so the kitchen is hers. Our mother is also responsible for the order in the house. But my dad and I try to help her as much as we can. After all, when mom comes home from work, she needs to cook food and do laundry. Pay attention to each of us, if I don’t understand something in the lessons, she tries to help me.
Mom’s favorite hobby is growing flowers, so we have a lot of beautiful flowers on the windowsills in every room. These are, for example, cacti, geraniums, violets, begonias, fuchsias and many others. We also grow aloe, or as my mother calls it, agave. If one of us gets hurt, then the first assistant is aloe. On the table in the living room there is a vase with my mother’s favorite flowers – chrysanthemums.
My dad makes furniture, so almost all the furniture in our house is made by my dad’s hands. When a person comes to visit us for the first time, he looks at it for a long time, admiring the creation of his father’s hands. These are beautiful cabinets, a carved table and chairs. Dad is trying to pass on his craft to me. When something breaks in our house, dad fixes it, and I help him.
The room is mine. There is blue wallpaper on the walls, the ceiling resembles the sky. There are blue curtains on the windows. On one side of the room there is a very beautiful desk with space for a computer and it is complemented by a very beautiful and comfortable carved chair. Dad did all this for me with his own hands.
We have a very cozy house. Here I feel very free. My parents are my friends. I share all my joys and sorrows with them, they will always help me and tell me what to do. I love my home and my parents very much. Thanks to the atmosphere of love and comfort that they created in our home, I feel happy.
Option 2
I love my home very much, even though it is an apartment. But by the way, someday I want my own house. Probably, when I grow up, I will live separately from my parents. But when they become completely infirm from old age, I, of course, will take them into my house. They will be able to walk around the garden, tend to flowers, and breathe fresh air. And my grown son will go to this apartment because he wants independence. He will already become a student.
So, now our apartment is very spacious - everyone has their own room. There is also light here - large windows. They go out in different directions - into the city, into the park. We live on the fifth floor, the neighbors are good. Not long ago we did some renovations. The wallpaper is new, a few little things. But the house became even brighter and more pleasant.
I like that there is a forest next to our apartment. Our air is better than in the center, even the birds sing. And there are no problems with parking. In the center you always don’t know where to park the car.
We have a large kitchen at home where we can all gather - eat, watch TV, read books together. It’s also cool that my parents built a dressing room in the hallway. A whole room with shelves, hangers, boxes. And everyone has their own “compartment” to put things.
Our home is almost always in order. Every weekend there is mandatory cleaning, in which everyone participates. And we have a dishwasher, which made our life a lot easier, otherwise there were always arguments about who should wash the dishes. More precisely, mom always has a manicure, dad is always busy, and brother always “washed it that time.” In general, I am very glad that we bought the machine.
We have a lot of flowers on our windowsills; my mother plants them. I also take care of them.
We have air conditioning, so we are comfortable even in hot weather. And the heating is from a water heater, so we don’t heat it when it’s warm outside, we regulate the temperature at home ourselves. And it's very cozy here. Only my brother sometimes plays the music too loudly, but we scold him. And we try not to even turn on the washing machine too late or too early, so as not to disturb the neighbors.
We also often have guests, everyone also loves our house.
Wave house (Denmark)
One of the unusual houses in the world is a residential building in the city of Vejle (Denmark), reminiscent of a wave. Its construction took more than ten years due to the financial crisis, but the result was worth the wait.
The architects took into account the local landscape when designing. Located on the shores of the Vailefjord, the building consists of 5 buildings located on an area of 14 thousand square meters and serves as a decoration of the fjord.
Essay My Home
Each person has his own house or apartment in which he lives. Where else but at home, we can feel calm, be ourselves. After hard working days, everyone rushes home to relax, unwind, change into comfortable clothes and soft slippers. At home there is always comfort that we can create ourselves, whatever we want.
I love my house. Next to the house there is a courtyard and a vegetable garden. I live with my parents and older brother. We have four rooms: the living room, my parents' bedroom, my brother's room and mine. My room is the smallest, but very cozy. We recently did renovations with the whole family. I really love space and everything connected with it, that’s why my walls and ceiling are blue. They have stars glued on them that glow at night, rockets and little aliens are drawn on them. I love looking at them before going to bed, lying in bed and imagining that I am the hero of some intergalactic adventure. I also have a table where I do my homework, a closet with my favorite books, a bed and a large bean bag chair.
Opposite my door is my brother's room. He is almost eighteen and loves rock music. All the walls are covered with posters of his favorite bands. He has large speakers, an electric guitar and all sorts of amplifiers for them, but I don’t really understand this, in general there’s a lot of different equipment. He also has his own computer, and sometimes he lets me play on it.
Everything in my parents' bedroom is white and gray. Mom wanted everything to be this color. I like. They have a large bed, a chest of drawers with a mirror, a large closet with clothes and a small TV. In the hall we receive guests or watch movies in the evenings with the whole family. There is also a fireplace in this room, although there is not a real fire in it, but just a glowing picture, but it looks just like a living flame.
Around our house there is a white and smooth fence. My mother’s flower beds are blooming in the yard, very beautiful. In the evening, I very often go out onto the porch, sit on the steps and watch my mother water the flowers. In the yard my brother, dad and I play badminton, and in winter we make snowmen. We have a vegetable garden behind the house. Mom plants a lot of different vegetables there, and at the end of the garden there are raspberries, very tasty.
I love my house. I love the morning rays of the sun that shine through the windows, I love the creaking sound of the door in the corridor. I also love listening to the big clock ticking in the living room. All the smells, sounds, everything about it is native. When I grow up, I will have my own house, and maybe an apartment. But the warmest memories will forever remain about this house. About the house in which I grew up.
Unusual houses of the world
We are all accustomed to the fact that our houses are rectangular buildings with rectangular doors and rectangular windows. Anyone looking at such structures can confidently say that this building is a house or a place where people live. But there are people who approach building a house creatively; there are many unique and unusual houses on the planet that attract attention. These houses have unusual shapes and elements, original style and features, they are quirky, funny, strange.
I offer you a selection of 50 of the most unusual and extravagant houses in the world.
1. Airplane house in Costa Rica.
2. House in traditional African style. It is made from natural materials: the walls are made of stone, the mortar is made of sand, soil and manure, the roof is made of branches.
3. An eco-house built using technology developed by American architect Mike Reynolds from New Mexico.
4. Heliodom, a bioclimatic solar house, was built in Causevillers near Strasbourg (Eastern France) in 2011. The house is a huge three-dimensional sundial. It is placed at a certain angle in relation to the movement of the sun, so in the hot summer months the house is always shaded and cool, and in autumn, winter and spring the sun is lower in the sky and shines directly through the large windows, warming the house inside.
5. In the city of Salzburg (Austria) there is a house that is very reminiscent of a car from the 70s. However, this is a completely residential building where you can live all year round, since it has heating, ventilation, sewerage and other communications. This is a project by architect Markus Voglreiter.
6. Home - strawberries in Brazil.
7. Flying saucer house in Tennessee, USA. One of the oldest houses in the shape of spaceships, built back in 1970. The idea to build just such a house came after watching the famous movie “Star Wars”. It is painted white and is quite large in size - 25 meters in diameter. The house has only one floor, but at the same time the house has all the amenities for a full life in it throughout the year. The house is heated, there is electricity and water. The entrance is located 5 meters from ground level, accessible by a staircase made in the same style.
8. A country holiday home was built on the territory of the Grimeton nature reserve in Sweden. The house is mounted on the top of a hill in a forested environment, its rooms offer picturesque views of nature and the lake below. It has three bedrooms, a kitchen-dining room and a living room with a fireplace.
9. Houses in Iceland.
10. A house in Australia is assembled from small panels of different sizes, reminiscent of a puzzle. At the same time, some of the parts were deliberately forgotten to be assembled in order to allow passers-by to look inside the house.
11. House located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
12. Home lollipop for the Korean family. The striped crimson facades of Lollipop House, a single-family home, stand out against the gray and white of its neighbors. The structure of the house with a total area of 102.98 m is organized around a central staircase that connects seven different spaces. Study room, living room, kitchen and dining room, parent and child bedrooms, playroom and guest room.
13. Shell House, built by Mexican architect Octavio Ocampo in the shape of a shell on the ocean. Natural materials collected from the beach were used in the construction. Inside the shell - 5500 sq. feet of housing and not a single right angle.
15. Designed by a Spanish architect, the beach house's shape is a strong symbol of the ocean wave.
16. The unusual FabLab House with an area of 75 square meters was created by employees of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. The main materials were pine plywood panels and solid wood. The frame is made from prefabricated elements and can be assembled elsewhere in 15 days. FabLab House is designed to accommodate four people. On top of it are rain storage tanks, a temperature control device and customizable photovoltaic panels. The house is fully self-sufficient in electricity, and the excess is saved for cloudy days. The unusual shape is specially created in the form of a paraboloid for Madrid to maximize solar energy collection throughout the year.
17. House in Vancouver.
18. Stone house in Portugal. This house was built back in 1974, between two very huge boulders, and attracts a lot of tourists from all over the world.
19. This fabulous house belongs to Indian croquet champion Sachin Tendulkar and is located in the suburbs of Mumbai. The spiral curved shell house from design studio Senosiain Arquitectos was built using a special concrete mixture and steel wire. Thanks to its unique curves, the house looks very magical and somewhat reminiscent of a fairy tale house.
20. Shell House is located in Nagano, Japan. The oval-shaped shell villa is built in the heart of a forested area. Its structure appears to float above the earth like a spaceship. This 329 square meter (3,541 sq ft) home features a central control system that allows all mechanical and electrical equipment to be controlled with just three buttons. Floor heating systems minimize thermal energy consumption.
21. Beach house in Las Lomas in Peru. This multi-faceted, family-friendly home is built by the Pacific Ocean on a small rock hill 48 meters above sea level.
22. House in Holland
23. Home bus in Colorado.
24. At home in Korea.
25. House in Singapore.
26. Forest house in Norway.
27. Bubble house. The unusual house of fashion designer Pierre Cardin called Maison Bulle , which is located in the French resort of Cannes. It all started when Pierre Cardin wanted to buy a house on the French Riviera in the 80s. His attention was attracted by the construction of a house for a French capitalist at that time. After the death of the entrepreneur, Cardin bought the construction site and, together with the architect Antti Lovag , who professes the ideas of organic architecture inspired by natural forms and images, turned the house into such an unusual “bubble” structure.
28. House near Odessa.
29. House piano with violin in China. This “musical” house is located in the Chinese city of Huainan. A huge violin serves as the entrance to the building and there is an escalator in it to ascend to the “grand piano”. The structure is made of transparent and black glass. The building houses an exhibition complex that displays plans for streets and districts of the city.
30. House in Canada. These wooden spheres can be suspended from a tree, a bridge or even a cliff... Access to the house is via a spiral staircase or a suspension bridge. A system of ropes holds the house in a constant position, replacing the foundation of the building, although you can remove the lower anchor and rock...
31. House in Japan.
32. House orchestra. This house is located in Dresden, Germany. It's called Neustadt Kunsthofpassage. The gutters on this house are made so that when it rains, music plays.
33. Houses in the village of Kandovan are carved directly into the rocks, with a house in each rock. This house is over 700 years old.
34. An unusual residential building, Quai de la Graille, has appeared in the French city of Grenoble. The building is distinguished by organically shaped wooden balconies that resemble tree mushrooms. The building's standard rectangular shape is made of smooth white cement with rounded corners, and rectangular windows are scattered randomly across the façade.
35. House in London, former water tower. The original structure was erected back in 1877. Subsequently, in 2008, the building was purchased by architects for subsequent transformation for 395 thousand pounds sterling. Part of the luxurious residence included thick walls, a huge steel water tank and, of course, a magnificent façade in the Venetian Gothic style. The building rises 30 meters and attracts the attention of everyone who finds themselves next to this wonder.
36. On January 4, the grand opening of the “Hundertwasser Tower” took place in the German city of Abensberg in Bavaria. The tower is one of the last architectural creations of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, which was realized only 10 years after his death. The tower was commissioned by the local Kuhlbauer brewery, which has a history of more than 700 years.
37. House in Japan.
38. House-hotel in Chile “Magic Mountain”.
39. An extraordinary house on a mango farm in Thailand.
40. House in Holland.
41. Festus Cave House, Missouri This cave south of St. Louis, which was used as a roller skating rink and concert hall, was later converted into a huge modern family home, measuring 130 square meters.
42. Pirate's house.
43. Pineapple house in Scotland.
44. House on the Drina River in Serbia.
45. “Coal House” in Nagano. The house has a living room, dining area, two bedrooms, a study room and a tea room, which is located in the tower.
46. Test house. Japan In the suburbs of Tokyo there is the so-called “Reversible Fate Complex”, which includes nine houses. Inside the houses, everything is unusual for an ordinary person - all objects and rooms are out of place. According to the architect, such difficulties not only invigorate, but also contribute to the awakening of instincts and lengthen life.
47. House in Beverly Hills.
48. Cactus house. Holland This whimsical house in Rotterdam makes gardening a simple and enjoyable experience - overhanging parts create large terraces, and a variety of shapes and curves allow plants to be illuminated from different angles.
49. House-ship.
50. House in Ohio, built in 1986. The ship was built in 1924 in Michigan and decommissioned in December 1981.
Reasoning
For every person, his home is his fortress. At least that's how it should be. Our home is not only our habitat, not only the place where we sleep, eat and shelter from rain or cold. Our home is a place where we feel protected, loved and where we are always welcome and understood.
My home is my apartment on the fourth floor of a five-story building. My flat has three rooms. I live here with my parents, sister and cat. Not every apartment can be called a home. But mine is a real home. It's always warm and cozy here. Not only because the heating works well during the cold season. First of all, my loved ones create warmth. My sister and I have one room for two. Parents have their own room. When we moved here, we agreed with our parents that they would never enter our room without asking, and we would never enter theirs. It is very comfortable. And it is also an indicator of trust. Parents never rummage through our things because they trust us. The doors to our rooms are often open, but if we or our parents close the door, we know that no one will enter without knocking.
The hall is our common room. The doors to the hall are always open. In the hall we watch TV or chat. And our cat Jerboa sleeps there. He has a special pad in the corner. Perhaps Jerboa thinks that the hall is his room. But we don't know this for sure.
Our house is always clean. My mother loves cleanliness. She says that angels do not come to a dirty, untidy house. And my mother also says that you should always keep the house clean, and then, even if someone unexpectedly comes in, you won’t have to blush. My sister and I clean our room ourselves. We each have our own closet for clothes and our own shelf for books. Mom cleans the kitchen and living room, but we help her.
I also love my home because I feel protected in it. For example, if I feel bad or someone has offended me, I know that at home they will support and help me. Some of my classmates, if they get a bad grade or have a fight with someone at school, are afraid to go home. Sometimes they can wander the streets until nightfall just to avoid going home. For my sister and I, it's the other way around. When something bad happens to us, we rush home to share and receive support and help. Sometimes it seems to me that even the walls of our home calm and protect.
I know that no matter what happens to me, no matter what I do, I will never be abandoned or driven away at home. My home is my fortress. Here I am always welcome and loved.
Glass House (Japan)
A unique transparent house project was developed by Japanese architect Su Fujimoto. He wanted to unite his neighbors with his home . The house is filled with light and is perfect for sociable people who don’t mind being constantly visible. At night, the walls of the house are still closed, protecting sleeping residents from outside observers. Instead of rooms, the architect proposed different levels of platforms.
