Main entry:

Gallagher, Winifred.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, ©2006.

Description:

xix, 329 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index.
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.

Summary:

Bringing together elements of behavioral science, cultural history, and interviews with designers and architects, a journalist and cultural critic provides a psychological tour of the American home--past, present, and future.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0060538694
9780060538699

Subject:

Housing United States Psychological aspects.
Architecture, Domestic Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) United States.
Logement États-Unis Aspect psychologique.
Architecture domestique Aspect psychologique.
Identité (Psychologie) États-Unis.
Housing Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250820
Call No.: BIB 180319
Status: Available