Kevin McCloud’s How to Make Your House a Home

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Kevin McCloud. Kevin McCloud’s How to Make Your House a Home

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Retailers place the emphasis on the visual: we’re encouraged to look but not touch, and window displays are kept out of reach behind glass. Yet the tactile is fundamental to our full experience of the world around us. If you ask any architect where the money on a project should go, they will tell you that it’s worth investing in 1) the bare bones of the design and a good quality of construction and 2) the things you touch.

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I don’t mean this in the way your dowager aunt might in dismissing anything designed after 1915. I mean furniture that is made with love and care. It is probably going to be expensive but it will reward you, I promise, in the fullness of time with a longer life and more use and somehow a livelier character, because you know it well and the factory it came from and maybe even the person who made it, thanks to a little brochure that came with the furniture that you may end up keeping as long as the furniture.

I think of every decently made object I’ve seen or picked up, from lamp posts and bridges to spoons and eggcups, as a physical embodiment of human energy: the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

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