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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
Rebecca Solnit
“Admiring houses from the outside is often about imagining entering them, living in them, having a calmer, more harmonious, deeper life. Buildings become theaters and fortresses for private life and inward thought, and buying and decorating is so much easier than living or thinking according to those ideals. Thus the dream of a house can be the eternally postponed preliminary step to taking up the lives we wish we were living. Houses are cluttered with wishes, the invisible furniture on which we keep bruising our shins.”
Rebecca Solnit, one of the most magnificent writers of our time, on what our dream homes reveal about our inner lives and the paradox of material possessions – gorgeous read: