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2.3. Living Room as a Reflection of Identity As the place where guests are hosted, living rooms are being used to reflect the dweller’s identity. Rechavi (2004) claims that analyzing people’s experiences in the living rooms shows that each unique living room with a different style reflects the taste of its dwellers. People use objects and furnishing in the living room to reflect their identity and attach different meanings to them. Rechavi (2009) also reveals that although dwellers design their living rooms for their own pleasure, they also try to please and impress the guests. Amaturo et al. (1987) pay attention particularly to the living room furnishings in a study where they examine the relationship between social status and interior decoration, because they claim that “…in this part of the home the family concentrates the main ‘ostentation’ strategies” (p. 230). Laumann and House (1970) state that; The living room is the area where ‘performances’ for guests are most often given, and hence the ‘setting’ of it must be appropriate to the performance. Thus we expect that more than any other part of the home, the living room reflects the individual’s conscious and unconscious attempts to express a social identity (p. 190). The décor of the living room is an indicator of taste more than that of the other rooms in the house, not only as a result of economic status of dwellers, but because the living room is the place where dwellers aim to give the best impression about themselves and their dwellings (Laumann & House, 1970). As Cooper (1974) states; Interestingly, the normal family house may display an opposite arrangement, with bedrooms functionally but uninterestingly decorated, and the living room, where guests and relatives are entertained, containing the best furniture, family mementos, art purchases, photos, and so on, and representing the collective family self (p. 135). 20
Dwellers express their image, and give messages about themselves to the guests who they invite to their house. Cooper (1974) claims that “…we project something of ourselves onto its physical fabric” (p. 131) through our houses. Erdemir- Türkkan (1998) have conducted a study about “…the components of taste which are affected in furniture selection” (p. 101) and found that when the meaning of the living room is asked to the upper income group respondents, they “…claim that it is the space which represents the personality of the user” (p. 89). 2.4. Living Room and Objects The objects in the living room are used to support private and public uses of the room. According to Woodward (2001), domestic objects also carry private and public meanings. Objects sometimes have a public role in the home as a signifier of status, style or taste, and other times do very private psychological work for the viewer which revolves around the object serving as a focus for managing self identity, family relations or self-esteem (Woodward, 2001, p. 121). Riggins (1994) states that the living room is the appropriate place for the research into domestic objects because it is the place where artifacts are used most obviously and deliberately for impression. He (1994) categorizes the domestic objects as “…normal use and alien use, status objects, esteem objects, collective objects, stigma objects, disidentifying objects, social facilitators, occupational objects, indigenous and exotic objects, time indicators, size and proportions, way of production”. Another categorization is “…co- location, highlighting and 21
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