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March
7, 2007:
What Your Home Says About You
Interview
with Winifred Gallagher, author of House
Thinking
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Mike
Carruthers:
The
rooms in your home impact and reflect your life in ways you may
not think. For example the kitchen…
Winifred Gallagher:
One of the most interesting things that I found in my
reporting is that the status of the kitchen has directly paralleled
women's status throughout history.
Winifred Gallagher,
author of the book House
Thinking…
When women had
little or no status, the kitchen was a dirty, dangerous, inefficient
place. One of the first things to change in women's lives and
in the home as women began to acquire some power in the late
19th Century - kitchens started to improve. Today many women
are well-off professionals and not coincidentally the kitchen
is now often the home's most lavish room.
You control how
your rooms look and feel.
Your living room,
for example, is where you're supposed to celebrate who you are
and who your family is. So, in your living room you should weed
out any elements like a chair that your grouchy Aunt Ida gave
you or something that reminds you of your parent's divorce.
And substitute things you associate with happy times.
Sleep experts
will tell you, says Winifred, that how your bedroom looks has
a lot to do with how well you sleep.
Comfort really
is the word for the bedroom. And in fact for many of us, the
bedroom has become sort of an extended closet that is just filled
with piles of junk. So, when you go in there, instead of feeling
relaxed you feel over-stimulated instead.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that' s Something You Should Know.
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