ABSTRACT
The house and home may in general be divided into a number of more or less discrete spaces, each of which is specialised for the performance of a particular range of purposeful activities, which in a broad sense we could call ‘working tasks’. Most typically the boundaries of these spaces will coincide with the rooms of the house. The spaces may overlap physically to some extent, and tasks may intrude to some extent from one space to another. In this chapter we shall consider the ergonomics of three such ‘workspaces’: the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom and an important circulation space: the staircase.
