Home is place where a person or family lives, perhaps spends much of their time, or where a person is comfortable being. While a house (or other residential dwelling) is often referred to as a home, the concept of "home" is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade and the things and people that one loves becomes the focus.

The word "home" is also used for various residential institutions which aspire to create a home-like atmosphere, such as a retirement home, a nursing home, a 'group home' (an orphanage for children or a retirement home for adults), a foster home, etc.

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The Founder of TreeHugger and His Apartment of the Future
By PENELOPE GREEN Wed, 16 May 2012 22:21:43 -0000
In a century-old building on Sullivan Street, a tiny apartment is a model for high-end sustainability.
How to Tell If You’re Living an Over-Propped Life
By STEVEN KURUTZ Wed, 16 May 2012 22:50:54 -0000
If you own any of these items, you may be.
On Location: A San Francisco Couple Domesticates a Former Warehouse
By SARAH AMELAR Wed, 16 May 2012 22:38:31 -0000
In San Francisco, a couple domesticates a former warehouse.
Making a Bathroom Show Better Without Renovations - Market Ready
By TIM McKEOUGH Wed, 16 May 2012 23:03:34 -0000
Are there inexpensive ways to make a bathroom show better, without renovating it?
Home and Garden Tours Around the Country
By SHELLY FREIERMAN Thu, 03 May 2012 17:30:03 -0000
Across the country, spring tours give visitors a chance to inspect houses and visit interesting gardens.
Edison Bulb? Check.
Wed, 16 May 2012 22:50:48 -0000
Taxidermy, bar carts, monogrammed towels and other pieces that are routinely found in the self-consciously styled home.

L.A. Times - Home & Garden

Man About Town: A few heroic leaps at an 'Avengers' matinee
Chris Erskine Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700
Crying babies, knobby-kneed ladies, air-bag lips and endless trailers at the theater."The Avengers," as you may have heard, is the biggest thing to happen to America since World War II but, you know, louder and more troubling. At the end of the matinee I witnessed, audience members actually cheered, believing what they'd just seen was some sort of documentary. Manhattan had been saved, which is almost always a cause for celebration, though I met this one New Yorker the other day at the rent-a-car place: swaggery young Italian guy, you know the type.
L.A. Affairs: Some movie experiences have unexpected endings
By Tom O'Connor, Special to the Los Angeles Times Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700
Attending a 75-week movie-screening series was a solo experience for a shy former punk rocker. But close proximity to another movie fan slowly built to a dramatic finish.If you want a relationship, the advice goes, do what you like and you'll eventually bump into the love of your life. None of that was on my mind when I opened up the newspaper and read about a film series at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theater on Wilshire Boulevard. The academy would be screening, every Monday night for 75 weeks, all of the best picture winners from "Wings" (1927) to "Chicago" (2002) for just $75. I sprinted to buy my series pass.
Man About Town: At Hollywood Park, playing the ponies is family fun
Chris Erskine Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700
There's food trucks, cheap beer, live music and chances to gamble. The perfect place to bring the little guy.With a caffeine headache and 60 bucks in my britches, I head out to the pony rides on a Friday night — to glittery, improbable Hollywood Park, now officially Betfair Hollywood Park.
L.A. Affairs: A glass of wine and a little distortion
By Lisa Poliak, Special to the Los Angeles Times Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700
We met at the Santa Monica outpost of the Bodega wine bar. Though it was fairly dark inside, I recognized his face at the bar. I waved and walked toward him. As he stood up, his body did not match his face, or any of his online pictures. He was not the same guy surfing in the wetsuit, or wearing the tux, or looking all skinny with his bushy brown hair. He must have gained 50 pounds, maybe more. Beneath his beige button-down shirt I could see man boobs.
L.A. Affairs: When body image weighs on your mind
By Rebecca DiLiberto, Special to the Los Angeles Times Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700
One woman who's 'not skinny' found a way to relax with someone who had been there but was done with that.The first thing people often said when I told them that I, single and 30, was moving to Los Angeles: "Aren't you worried about dating? They're even worse out there than they are here."
Pocket offices: The latest trend in new homes
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:44:00 -0700


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