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Japanese houses are small.

She knew what it was like for married women to look after houses, husbands and children.

Fires are less frightening today than they once were, because more and more houses are built of concrete, and concrete houses do not burn as easily as the old wooden ones.

Frugality with diligence builds houses like castles.

Hawai, y'know, has a lot of houses with fireplaces doesn't it? The mornings and evenings over there get cold as well so people who feel the cold light fires.

This means that houses are starting to sink, roads are breaking up and lamp-posts are leaning at crazy angles.

Gasoline stations, roadside stands and small houses followed the new road.

The second is the affinity with environment. By utilizing natural energy and reducing wastes, we have to make houses which harmonize with ecology.

Some Westerners may think our houses are lacking in everything they consider essential.

The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the seawater is washing around their houses.

Rows of houses, each of them different and pleasing with their spacious gardens, are replaced by purely functional blocks of flats which have nothing more to commend them than over-praised 'modern conveniences'.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.