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Home: What Our Homes Really Mean to Us
Stafford Cliff
Jane O'Shea (Editorial Director), Nicki Marshall (Editor)
Quadrille: London
2006

Home is a survey of heaps of different people, artists, chefs, fashion designers, other kinds of designers, editors, journalists, basically creative people, each of whom has their home photographed and talks about what home means to them.

Near the start of the book there's a quote from William Goyen about how strange the concept of home actually is. We come to this new place at some time on some day in whatever circumstances and it grows into a place that we feel a connection with as though it were a person.
Also the homes depicted are lovely in an I-could-move-in-there kind of way that real homes manage where show homes just don't. While the spaces very in size they all have the kind of clutteredness I'm dealing with at Colonial Cottage, but that's because life makes clutter, it's what makes places look occupied.