APAD: A house is not a home

This English proverb draws the distinction between a bricks and mortar house and a caring domestic dwelling with memories and a feeling of belonging. 

No one is exactly sure of the first coinage of 'a house is not a home' but the first version known of in print comes from the American writer and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller and it may well be that she coined it herself. Her early pro-feminist work Woman in the Nineteenth Century was published in 1845, containing this opinion: A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Coco Chanel's quote :  It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Being another version reflecting the same mentality.