This game feels really poignant, and I feel really reflects the feeling of a house absorbing the stories of the people who live in it. I love the weathering the storm part where the parents can work together to tie their hands together, if I was playing this game I would make the parents stay tied together for the rest of the game, after thinking it over, the fact that the parents get to determine the look and furniture of the house while the children fill the outside with detail makes a lot of sense!
The map itself could be better integrated, unless the game is telling someone specifically to draw on the map, it doesn't feel like there's much in the rules encouraging players to look at it, and the weathering the storm and facing the future phases have almost no interaction with the map at all.