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

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-146717

Description

xix, 329 p. ; 24 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Housing Psychological aspects.
Architecture, Domestic Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology)

Originator

Gallagher, Winifred.

Contents

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.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins

Description

xix, 329 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291-310]) and index.

ISBN

0060538694

Call Number

Coll. HD7293.G35 2006

Places

United States
United States.

Edition

1st ed.

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