Isn't that the amazing thing about houses?:

'Days later… I told a friend, skilled in the art of fung shui, how overwhelmed I had felt by not being able to handle yet another thing gone wrong in my house. "It never ends," I complain. "It seems like constant breakdown."'

'Yes,' he agreed. 'Isn't that the amazing thing about houses? They're so alive.'

–Dominique Browning, Around the House and in the Garden, (2002), pp. 125