dc.contributor.advisor | Tofle, Ruth Brent | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Carter, Heather Carlile | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2012 Fall | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 6, 2013). | eng |
dc.description | The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Dr. Ruth Tofle | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | M.S. University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012. | eng |
dc.description | "December 2012" | eng |
dc.description.abstract | For middle-class householders interested in elevating an image of their status, residential interior designers may be viewed as destroyers of authentic sense of home. By contrast, designers may seek to contribute to the house owner's sense of home, the positive feeling of belonging, comfort, and security associated with one's personal living space, rather than focus on anonymous status and image. To understand the motivation and outcomes of residential interior design work, a deeper understanding of owners' perceptions of sense of home and their involvement to create that sense of home is required. Current literature, however, says very little about owners' perceptions and preferences of physical attributes that contribute to their sense of home as they are working with an interior designer. This study seeks to utilize qualitative research methods to gather and analyze data in order to answer the question, "For those owners who have used residential interior designers for their dwellings, what perceptions and preferences of physical attributes do they believe contribute to their sense of home and what was their level of involvement in its creation?" | eng |
dc.format.extent | vi, 55 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/33130 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject | residential interior design | eng |
dc.subject | homeowners' perceptions | eng |
dc.subject | sense of home | eng |
dc.title | Authentic thresholds : interior design client involvement in the creation of sense of home | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Architectural studies (Masters thesis) (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.S. | eng |