The Idea of a Home

Buying and building a home is something almost everyone dreams of. Millions have done it. Millions are doing it. And yet, we rarely hear about how often it fails to overshadow, well, life.

Sometimes we watch a scene that manages to get everything right. The characters, the location, the dialogue, and even the subtle hero of it all, the background music, which binds the scene to a feeling. Later, we try to recreate that feeling in our own lives by playing the music again, hoping the emotion will follow. We ignore all the other elements that gave the music its meaning in the first place.

A good architect tries their best to give you the home you imagine. You ask for something traditional, functional, calm, and softly toned, and they deliver all that and more. It is the house you swear you will never grow out of. What you do not realise is that it is only the background music.

The home, or any physical space for that matter, inevitably takes a backseat, because our story does not come from the architecture around us. At least not anymore, not with our faces drowned in the internet.

Architecture can set the scene, but it cannot write the story.