We like furniture and art work with a back-story and meaning to us. My friend, Joyce Sunada called this intentional decorating. For ideas to give order to your house and how to pare down your belongings to those you truly treasure, see my book summary of Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Of course a home provides a safe place for children and adults to relax, experiment, and play. A home’s functionality and needs ebb and flow with a family’s developmental stage and number of members. For example, some dedicated parents turn their dining rooms into play spaces for their young children. Of course, one day they may choose to turn it back into an eating space, or a reading space or whatever best serves their circumstance.