If Your House Could Speak, What Would It Say?

To whom would it speak?
What emotions or sentiments would it express? What desires? What regrets?
For the exercise, "house" can be your present home, or a previous one. It can be a real house, or a fictional one.
Write about 500 words.
Above: 36 Highland Avenue, the house where I grew up.


ahhhh that house, stately yet comfortable, big front porch with columns but not imposing...instead welcoming