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am referring to with the gallery metaphor. In Janne’s case, on the one hand, the
recreation came from the pleasure he got from putting together and then having
a redesigned kitchen. On the other hand, he said that he enjoys browsing
pop antique stores, hunting for vintage pieces and having them around:
J: our kids say that, since we don’t have any interior decoration, couldn’t
we decorate somehow, and then we’ve tried to say, at least to ask them,
what they think it should it be then; what do you mean we don’t have
interior decoration? And then it turns out to be about the fact that we
don’t have matching sets of, like, sofas, carpets and curtains. And that
means no interior decoration. Of course, when that’s translated into
adult language, it means that from their point of view we don’t show
(pause) that we actually reflect on this. And, well (pause) yeah, in their
own way the kids are certainly right, since more stuff has drifted here,
or let’s say, it wasn’t planned, our interior decorating. The only really
designed thing in this house is this kitchen. It was designed right
down to the last screw-heads, how this is going to be done. (pause)
And, yes, they have been very satisfied, there are enough signs from
which they can work out that this reflects that it’s designed. ( Janne 05
583-595)
The comment is a good example of the very mild internal clashes mentioned in
the interviews. The households in my sample appeared to be in all respects very
peaceful. Perhaps it should be mentioned that I did not get the impression that
any of this disturbed the households or affected their operations in the same
way as the unpredictability caused by alcohol or drug addiction, mental health
problems or domestic violence would do. I think this is worth mentioning, not
because it affects the sample’s relevance (I have made no effort to cover all possible
types of households in the first place), but because domestic peacefulness
and the notion of the home as a haven are sometimes assumed to be the norm,
and any kind of trouble or disturbance is then viewed as a marginal deviance
(King 2004; Ruckenstein 2009). I do not believe that that is so and I was not
intentionally looking for homes that were in this manner peaceful, but since
such was the case, all the households in the sample had some kind of gallery
going on in the sense that the homes appeared to be comparatively peaceful
and safe places for spiritual recreation. However, not everyone was using design
to facilitate this type of recreation. Jari is an example of this. Jari said that he
likes to make videos, and when I asked, he told me that his camera is Sony, a
very good camera and a gift from his parents, but he did not show it to me and