A house can be home or just a place you live. There is one key to making a house a home. It takes family. It is kind of like a church building. The congregation is what makes that building a sacred place of worship. Family makes your home a sacred place too.
It could be kids laughing and crying. It could be your spouse fussing because you are on the computer (hmmm), or telling you they love you. It could be your parents who live with you or your grown kids.
This is what makes a house a home. A house is simply a building where we live our lives. It is where we experience the best of life and the worst. We watch our kids grow. We watch them learn how to talk and walk. We see those first teeth come in. We see them come home with good grades, and some times bad ones. We see them experience things for the first time and find the highest joy when their faces are lit up because they just did some thing for the first time. We see them cry when they have to spend time cleaning there room because you can't even see the floor any more.
We also go through the tough times at home. It could be morning the death of a close friend or relative. It could be sickness that we or our family experience.
No matter what the experience is home is where we experience them. The house is just a facility to keep us warm and dry and to store our stuff. A home is the friends and family you have inside that facility. Whether it be a single wide mobile home or a 10,000 sq/ft mansion a home is where you experience the joys and sadness that makes humans human.
Hopefully God will bless your home with more joy than hurt. I hope as real estate professionals we remember these things when we are out doing our job. Remember that it is not just a house some one is buying with your help. It is the experience of life.
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Hi Jeff:
I share many of the same family values as you, however, I'd like to point out that there are MANY people in the world we live in who have REAL HOMES and don't have family. What about Miss Gracie who lives across the street from me? She's widowed now and she has a home. Some of my neighbors never were married and probably never will be.
What makes a house a home is TOTALLY dependent upon the person who lives there's perspective of what home is. Yours wouldn't be complete without family, but someone else has a true home without family.
Blessings, Lania