Home Sweet Home?
I wonder how many people really think their home is sweet. Homebuyers enter into a hunt for the right place to hang their hats, house their families, provide a base for their lives and proclaim their status to the world. Whether it is an apartment, condo, mansion or tent, we call it home. The choice is important because it needs to meet many uses. It rarely checks off all of our wants but we vow to make do for bigger reasons.
Home buying
Buying a home is an expensive decision. Buyers take a too quick tour with a guide that is being paid to show the good parts. The way the cabinets look in one house get confused with the size of a garage in another. If decision fatigue sets in, exasperation enters. We should be required to spend a night in every home we want to buy. It could be a forever decision.
We live in caves
If you examine the caves from thousands of years ago, they are like rooms with rocks. The big front room opens into smaller spaces off the sides and in the back. Security and warmth were important, so the small fire at the front was multi-purpose and the cold coziness at the back provided more safety from the elements. If you look at houses today, you see fireplaces in the front rooms with spaces radiating away from the center meant for multi-purposes. We are still cave dwellers.
A new model
Think about it. If you could design your own living space and didn’t mind adhering to conventional thought, how would you design it? Our modern life has some similarities to the past but could use some new flow to better meet our needs. Recent changes have tried to incorporate open spaces but they don’t meet everyone’s idea of a sweet home. It would be magical if everyone had what they needed in little units that weren’t just the typical master suites. It’s probably time for exercise to have a center stage in every home to demonstrate how crucial it is for health. And if we are going to work from home, the home office space needs a mind-blowing upgrade.
How would you design your life space? Do we need little boxes to show our civility in the world? Should all humans be entitled to the ability to design their own home and live in it?
