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i live in a house built in the 1930's. we are the third owner. it is a 2 bedroom and one bath house!
for a living, i design homes for people. if a family has only 2 kids, rarely does the house have less than 3 rooms. why do we feel we must have at least the ratio of 1 room per child?
i place these two paragraphs side by side and wonder why have we gone to such an extravagance? what is the real purpose for all of this space? how did a family raise children in the house i live in?
it is JUST our generation that is doing this...my father lived in an APARTMENT with 3 siblings and 2 parents in india. he occasionaly slept out on the balcony since he was the oldest. i have started to study the origins of the modern house for a project i am doing. it is interesting to think that most lived in a single room for so many years. children probably witnessed their parents being amourous...yes, i am cringing too, but it allowed them to see what REAL love is. they saw a wholesome love instead of the crap on TV.
i went to lunch with a friend of mine who has raised his 4 children without a TV in the house. he said they just bought ONE...it is a portable probably smaller than the computer screen i am looking at...so they could all watch TV together. he and his wife with his 2 children who are still here in town get into bed and all watch a show together. and no...they are in jr high and high school!! incredible.
do we blame the falling apart of the family on some external thing ..or is it simpler than that. we have all just isolated ourselves from each other. in the big city it is easy to be a narcisist...since it feels like there is absolutely no connection between each other. we have managed to break that down to our families!
so how come we dream of that master suite addition? how come i think about a 10x11 room in the townhomes i design as too small. why do i take up SO much space?
for a living, i design homes for people. if a family has only 2 kids, rarely does the house have less than 3 rooms. why do we feel we must have at least the ratio of 1 room per child?
i place these two paragraphs side by side and wonder why have we gone to such an extravagance? what is the real purpose for all of this space? how did a family raise children in the house i live in?
it is JUST our generation that is doing this...my father lived in an APARTMENT with 3 siblings and 2 parents in india. he occasionaly slept out on the balcony since he was the oldest. i have started to study the origins of the modern house for a project i am doing. it is interesting to think that most lived in a single room for so many years. children probably witnessed their parents being amourous...yes, i am cringing too, but it allowed them to see what REAL love is. they saw a wholesome love instead of the crap on TV.
i went to lunch with a friend of mine who has raised his 4 children without a TV in the house. he said they just bought ONE...it is a portable probably smaller than the computer screen i am looking at...so they could all watch TV together. he and his wife with his 2 children who are still here in town get into bed and all watch a show together. and no...they are in jr high and high school!! incredible.
do we blame the falling apart of the family on some external thing ..or is it simpler than that. we have all just isolated ourselves from each other. in the big city it is easy to be a narcisist...since it feels like there is absolutely no connection between each other. we have managed to break that down to our families!
so how come we dream of that master suite addition? how come i think about a 10x11 room in the townhomes i design as too small. why do i take up SO much space?
posted by raj at 3:34 PM
1 Comments:
Just as Christians may need persecution to truly be Christian, maybe we need close quarters and cramped spaces to be closer to each other. Our studio apartment is great. Even when we are doing different things, we are together. Many of the world's "hapiest" people seem to live in horrible circumstances compared to how we live. I love the blog.
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