it takes a heap of living to make a house a home English

Meaning it takes a heap of living to make a house a home meaning

What does it takes a heap of living to make a house a home mean?

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home proverb

— (chiefly, US) A house is simply a physical structure and does not count as a home until significant events in the inhabitants' lives have occurred there over a substantial period of time, and they have developed an emotional bond to the house and its immediate environs.