The individual’s own place in the home is their bedroom. Each person’s bedroom is their personal space even if they share it with someone else. At the same time people in the home can have communal areas that they still call to be part of their space. We have gotten to a point where certain parts of the house are not restricted by gender or other former social norms. It seems parlors and formal dining rooms have really drifted away from being someone’s place on everyday occasions and more to formal occasions. Often times they are only used a few times a year. I also think occasionally people can lose their place in their house both literally and figuratively. For example when children go off to college their presence both physical and social is not present anymore. This can also happen if a family has a parent or a child that travels often. Children sometimes travel for sports and parents can travel for business.
I agree completely with Tyler in saying that the main place where the individual personality can be seen within the home is the bedroom. It is an escape, where most decorate to fit their needs and their own tastes. Other then the bedroom there are spaces that can be designated for individuals, like the new all the rage man cave or the play room for kids. However, other than these very specific places, more often than not the home is designed based off a consumer ideal. Magazines and television shows like the ones on HGTV, tell people how they should decorate their homes.
Every room in a house can be tailored to one person’s needs obviously bedrooms will have the most individual identities. Sharing a room with a sibling growing up is hard but once you get your own room it becomes a sanctuary where you can put what you want and can escape from outside pressures and the world for some time alone and peace. But this isn’t always just the bedroom as Helen said the man cave is the individual space of the dad in the house. Maybe the home office where there is a computer is the mother’s space or the stereotypical kitchen space. If someone is athletic the workout room can be where the individual is found most often and the room is personalized for them. As with the clip it’s obvious that the couple keeps things simple and just uses the space as a space for sleeping it wasn’t really tailored for anything other than storage of clothes and their bed it seemed. I mean there is not a dresser or a tv to make someone stay longer. So this isn’t really the space they use the most it seems.
In the ideal home the individual can be in any room and feel comfortable. That means that they have tailored their wants and needs to every inch of the home. Like we saw in the HGTV video, the television show staff was helping these homeowners to have the perfect room with the exact amenities that they wanted. In the true and ideal home the person living in it wants to have a positive and comfortable experience in every room they spend time in. That means setting up each livable space with a certain theme relating to the person’s interests. And in the kitchen or other common areas that means having enough space for every day family gatherings and just enough extra space for guests. I agree that the bedroom should be designed to fit personal wants and needs, but the rest of the home does not need that intense and perfect detail. Especially when in today’s day and age we barely use rooms like the living and dining room anymore.
The individual comes out in the design of the bedroom. The bedroom is the perfect place to start drawing on personal taste This is the room that the individual will most likely spend the most time situated in. At some point of the individual's day, he/she will relax in the bedroom. Thus, the style and design of this room should be a reflection of the person because he/she has to wake up to it everyday. The room also has to feel comfortable because the cozy atmosphere will allow the individual to feel relaxed and truly at home. There is no other room that I would rather personalize than the bedroom. My bedroom at home I have outgrown over the years because the color of the walls is still a shocking shade of pink. But the style of the bed I use at school describes my taste and personality.
The individual makes their ideal vision of the home come to life by constantly gathering ideas from different things they see and filtering out what they don’t like, while building on what they do like. Imagination plays a key role when it comes to realizing the ideal home. The individual needs to picture exactly how they want to organize the different rooms in a home and what “feel” or atmosphere they want to bring to life. When our family built our Chalet in Switzerland, my mom picked the different tiles, color, and designs for all three floors of the house. She had spent most of her life observing and paying attention to interior and exterior design in other people’s houses, always writing down what designs she liked best. She particularly enjoyed the rustic look of older houses and successfully transferred it to our new house. She combined every little aspect of homes she had visited in the past and came up with her own creation, bringing together the years of details she had seen into a combination of her own. The results were impressive, and every person that steps into our house marvels at the creativity, ingenuity and uniqueness of the structure. She wanted her house to stand out from the others in the neighbor in a discrete way. The individual makes their ideal home come to life, that it why it is so important to take time selecting different elements and trying different combinations before the final decision is made.
In the ideal home there is no individual. When people set out to make a the ideal home, the individual is not something they are thinking about. It seems that everyone has their own role and allows it to be dictated according to gender. No matter how modern, how new, or even how old gender is the line that decides what you do in your house and how you do it. It is a said a man's home is his art, but even as seen on the video there are many things that go into maintaining a home. The home is permanent, the individual is not. How do you reflect that in four anchored walls?
The individual can be, and in most cases is, represented in their ideal home. Like in the show on TLC of home makeover, taking one's personal interests or desires and translating a space to accommodate those lusts. I see in my own house, designed by mother and built by my father, each room is tailored to fit a central theme or evoke a new feeling. My mother, an interior designer, and my father a mechanical engineer both envisioned what they wanted their dream house to be. So, with adequate funds and a growing family, they made moves and I now live in a place customized by passion and imagination. Each of our bedrooms are unique, each room in general has its own intentions. My situation at home is very different then many other people I know. This prompt made me reflect very intently on my own living space and uncovered a few things I have over looked for many years.
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The individual’s own place in the home is their bedroom. Each person’s bedroom is their personal space even if they share it with someone else. At the same time people in the home can have communal areas that they still call to be part of their space. We have gotten to a point where certain parts of the house are not restricted by gender or other former social norms. It seems parlors and formal dining rooms have really drifted away from being someone’s place on everyday occasions and more to formal occasions. Often times they are only used a few times a year. I also think occasionally people can lose their place in their house both literally and figuratively. For example when children go off to college their presence both physical and social is not present anymore. This can also happen if a family has a parent or a child that travels often. Children sometimes travel for sports and parents can travel for business.
I agree completely with Tyler in saying that the main place where the individual personality can be seen within the home is the bedroom. It is an escape, where most decorate to fit their needs and their own tastes. Other then the bedroom there are spaces that can be designated for individuals, like the new all the rage man cave or the play room for kids. However, other than these very specific places, more often than not the home is designed based off a consumer ideal. Magazines and television shows like the ones on HGTV, tell people how they should decorate their homes.
Every room in a house can be tailored to one person’s needs obviously bedrooms will have the most individual identities. Sharing a room with a sibling growing up is hard but once you get your own room it becomes a sanctuary where you can put what you want and can escape from outside pressures and the world for some time alone and peace. But this isn’t always just the bedroom as Helen said the man cave is the individual space of the dad in the house. Maybe the home office where there is a computer is the mother’s space or the stereotypical kitchen space. If someone is athletic the workout room can be where the individual is found most often and the room is personalized for them. As with the clip it’s obvious that the couple keeps things simple and just uses the space as a space for sleeping it wasn’t really tailored for anything other than storage of clothes and their bed it seemed. I mean there is not a dresser or a tv to make someone stay longer. So this isn’t really the space they use the most it seems.
In the ideal home the individual can be in any room and feel comfortable. That means that they have tailored their wants and needs to every inch of the home. Like we saw in the HGTV video, the television show staff was helping these homeowners to have the perfect room with the exact amenities that they wanted. In the true and ideal home the person living in it wants to have a positive and comfortable experience in every room they spend time in. That means setting up each livable space with a certain theme relating to the person’s interests. And in the kitchen or other common areas that means having enough space for every day family gatherings and just enough extra space for guests. I agree that the bedroom should be designed to fit personal wants and needs, but the rest of the home does not need that intense and perfect detail. Especially when in today’s day and age we barely use rooms like the living and dining room anymore.
The individual comes out in the design of the bedroom. The bedroom is the perfect place to start drawing on personal taste This is the room that the individual will most likely spend the most time situated in. At some point of the individual's day, he/she will relax in the bedroom. Thus, the style and design of this room should be a reflection of the person because he/she has to wake up to it everyday. The room also has to feel comfortable because the cozy atmosphere will allow the individual to feel relaxed and truly at home. There is no other room that I would rather personalize than the bedroom. My bedroom at home I have outgrown over the years because the color of the walls is still a shocking shade of pink. But the style of the bed I use at school describes my taste and personality.
The individual makes their ideal vision of the home come to life by constantly gathering ideas from different things they see and filtering out what they don’t like, while building on what they do like. Imagination plays a key role when it comes to realizing the ideal home. The individual needs to picture exactly how they want to organize the different rooms in a home and what “feel” or atmosphere they want to bring to life. When our family built our Chalet in Switzerland, my mom picked the different tiles, color, and designs for all three floors of the house. She had spent most of her life observing and paying attention to interior and exterior design in other people’s houses, always writing down what designs she liked best. She particularly enjoyed the rustic look of older houses and successfully transferred it to our new house. She combined every little aspect of homes she had visited in the past and came up with her own creation, bringing together the years of details she had seen into a combination of her own. The results were impressive, and every person that steps into our house marvels at the creativity, ingenuity and uniqueness of the structure. She wanted her house to stand out from the others in the neighbor in a discrete way. The individual makes their ideal home come to life, that it why it is so important to take time selecting different elements and trying different combinations before the final decision is made.
In the ideal home there is no individual. When people set out to make a the ideal home, the individual is not something they are thinking about. It seems that everyone has their own role and allows it to be dictated according to gender. No matter how modern, how new, or even how old gender is the line that decides what you do in your house and how you do it. It is a said a man's home is his art, but even as seen on the video there are many things that go into maintaining a home. The home is permanent, the individual is not. How do you reflect that in four anchored walls?
Where is the individual in the ideal home?
The individual can be, and in most cases is, represented in their ideal home. Like in the show on TLC of home makeover, taking one's personal interests or desires and translating a space to accommodate those lusts. I see in my own house, designed by mother and built by my father, each room is tailored to fit a central theme or evoke a new feeling. My mother, an interior designer, and my father a mechanical engineer both envisioned what they wanted their dream house to be. So, with adequate funds and a growing family, they made moves and I now live in a place customized by passion and imagination. Each of our bedrooms are unique, each room in general has its own intentions. My situation at home is very different then many other people I know. This prompt made me reflect very intently on my own living space and uncovered a few things I have over looked for many years.
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