ABSTRACT
Home is simultaneously both 'material and imaginative' and can be described as: 'a spatial imaginary: a set of intersecting and variable ideas and feelings, which are related to context, and which construct places, extend across spaces and scales, and connect places'. Home could be described as being a place or site; a set of feelings, emotions and meanings; and the relations between this material and affective space. Such home-making practices incorporate both the imaginative and the material - we thus create home through the formation of social and emotional relationships and through our use, positioning, and relationships with objects, furnishing, and décor. The objects that we choose to have in our homes do not just resonate in terms of their aesthetics; they also offer both temporal and spatial connections to people, places and moments from our past lives.
