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What Makes a House a Home?

What Home Feels Like

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We often confuse the structural, physical entity that is the house as home. It may be the body of the home, and just like we relate to our body, the home relates to the house structure.

Home is when it is lived, filled with life, with the smell of cooking, or when children are busy playing in the lawn.

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Extreme loneliness or the perfect balance? How to work from home and stay healthy

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When Sean Blanda started working remotely in 2017, the allure of a "digital nomad" lifestyle - working at your laptop on the beach, say - wasn't lost on him. The ability to work flexibly, be that at home or wherever else life may take you, is the dream for every disgruntled employee who has to fit in school pickups, dentist appointments and long commutes around office hours.

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Digital Nomad

The idea of working from home, on your laptop, flexibly, without having to do the daily commute, is appealing to many office workers.
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The Other Side

Studies on long term work-from-home workers found that lack of interaction with colleagues and the lack of an office vibe can result in a disconnection from the outer world, leading to isolation.

Working at Home

Pitfalls of working from home:

Mental health disorders like anxiety, stress, and depression
Feeling isolated
Less self-discipline
Lack of exercise
Unable to keep the boundaries between work and life.

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Appearances vs Experiences: What Really Makes Us Happy

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Experience vs Beauty

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While searching for happiness, one often confuses something beautiful with something that would make one feel happy. While beauty captivates us, the actual experience makes us far happier than the ...

The Influence Of Appearance

External beauty and pleasing appearance often influence our perception, and we believe that this would dictate our experience after we attain it.

The day-to-day experience of living in a particular place cannot be judged by its outer beauty. Our relationships and social health are more important than architecture.

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Homes Actually Need to Be Practical Now

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One of the ironies of social distancing is that it can put privacy in short supply. This week, a new version of an old joke made the rounds: the meme of Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man, modified for a time of quarantine.

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Shelter and refuge

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Rethinking utility

A home of any kind is a blessing. But quarantine also means that small elements of home design can have significant consequences.

How much space you have, the number of rooms, whether you have internet, a dishwasher and washing machine, whether you have an area in which to exercise or be alone or be together or cook or get fresh air—those factors will now take on even more weight.

Home as the only place

Confinement can heighten existing tensions and threats. It can also create new ones.

Even people who are usually good at handling stress can find their mental health affected by periods of continuous closeness.
Constant togetherness can be a great thing, right up until it isn’t. So if you live with others and find yourself needing space of your own, tell them that.
Use creative hacks: for example, if a bedroom is doubling as an office, create the ritual, at the start of the workday, of shutting the door (a sign that the bedroom is now a workspace).