Help help everything gone!

so when i open my finder i decided to rename the House looking thing, sorry I'm new to mac, and now all my photos that were in iphoto are gone. I don't know what i did wrong and its as if I've reset everything. Whats going on?

Open the Users folder on your hard disk and rename the folder which currently has the house icon to something else, and then rename the folder with your data to the original name of the folder with the house icon. Log out and log back in to restore your data. If you want to keep the new name of your home folder, see the second or third paragraph of this post depending on what you want to do.
To change the name of your account properly, use this utility.
To change only the name of your home folder properly, rename it in the Finder and use the NetInfo Manager in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder to change your user account's home property to contain the new name. Don't alter or delete anything else in the NetInfo Manager, and log out and back in after changing this property. This can also be done on its own to restore your data after renaming the home folder without renaming any more folders.
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