Kunovica, is a typical mountain village, with large house density, and is situated on the slopes around the Kunovica river, surrounded by silence and tranquality of intact nature. It is the village of contrasts: on one hand there is the beautiful nature, great natural conditions for raising cattle and on the other hand it is a village with only a small number of mostly elderly people (101 inhabitants), few infrastructural systems and buildings it is far from the main roads (although it used to be near them) which very weak in economical terms. The most important problem faced by this village as well as by the other villages in this area, is the depopulation i.e. the migrations. This paper analyses the present situation of the sustenance elements on the level of the village, and of the relevant representative sample of the households employing the previously defined parameters. By definition, natural, economic, human and spatial resources analyzed in this way can describe present situation, its causes and consequences, but they also can define the level of sustenance, the capacities and the ways of its possible development. The obtained results and conclusions made were used as the basis for recognizing the further development and transformation of a village household, and particularly the transformation of the farmyard as the spatial household frame and place where all these processes are taking place.