Creation of a house

Judith Flanders, a historian and the author of bestsellers about Victorian buildings and a Victorian city, reflect on what changes over the past 500 years have undergone a house and the very concept of him. On the example of Europe and America, the author traces, as, gradually improving his dwelling, the person has become all new and new objects and finally came to the house in which our contemporaries live with those or other features. According to the way of following from the XVI to the XXI century, FLANDERS is alive and fascinating about when and how the first tables, chairs and toilets appeared, where they were initially "lived" beds and why people were introduced into use the curtains and tablecloths, as well as many others household subjects. Special attention by the author pays for the marriages and family relationships were built, as children raised and what they were dressed. Well, the author"s main idea is that the house is a completely special, a separate place where we belong only to yourself and can only be