“…the house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind."

“It maintains him through the storms of the heavens and through those of life. It is body and soul. It is the human being’s first world.”

Gaston Bachelard

"If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only."

John Ruskin