Coming
Home to
Yourself
When Your Home Expresses
Who You Are
by Judith Fertig illustrations by Jill butler
H
ome. It’s a small word for a uni-
A house becomes a home
universal desire.”
versal idea, one that resonates
only as we put our own
In her seminal book, House as a
deeply with complex individual Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper
meanings and associations.
personal, emotional
Meaning of Home, which resulted
Regardless of whether home is a from her work on a low-income hous-
room, apartment, cottage or mansion,
imprint on it.
ing project and a series of case stud-
how homey it seems depends first on ies, Marcus came to understand that
two physical factors: light coming in “People consciously and unconsciously
on two sides and a view of greenery or tecture and environmental planning at use their home environment to express
sky, according to Clare Cooper Marcus, the University of California, Berkeley. something about themselves.” For Mar-
professor emerita of the departments “We yearn for nature,” she observes. cus, our evolving self-image is directly
of architecture and landscape archi- “Houseplants or a view of a garden is a reflected in the homes we create, like a
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