House thinking : a room-by-room look at how we live /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Gallagher, Winifred (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Harper Perennial, 2007
• Έκδοση: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
• Θέματα: Στέγαση > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ψυχολογικές απόψεις; Αρχιτεκτονική, Οικιακή > Ψυχολογικές απόψεις; Ταυτότητα (Ψυχολογία) > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής

From the Publisher: Ethan Allen and HGTV may have plenty to say about making a home look right, but what makes a home feel right? In House Thinking, journalist and cultural critic Winifred Gallagher takes the reader on a psychological tour of the American home. By drawing on the latest research in b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Why there's no place like home
• Home: when we see it, we know what we like
• The entry and plan: who you are is where you're at
• The living room: decoro ergo sum
• The kitchen: woman's work is never done?
• The dining room: status and stuff
• The great room: same time, same place
• The bedroom: behind closed doors
• The bathroom: mirror, mirror on the wall
• The child's room: a place to call one's own
• The basement: doing it yourself
• The office: home work
• The garden: outside or in
• The second home: domesticity to go
• The neighborhood: no home is an island
• Suggested reading
• Web resources
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• P.S. Insights, interviews & more.