1. “Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach

2. The Personal Need of a Home
Housing and Interior Design
The Personal Need of a Home
Warm – up Question:
A home is a place of great importance in people’s lives. What features your home important to you?

3. Vocabulary
Housing
Physical Needs
Physiological Needs
Universal Design

4. Vocabulary Housing: Physical Needs: Physiological Needs:
any structure built for people to live in.
Physical Needs:
all the things the body needs to survive such as air, sunlight, food, shelter, and sleep.
Physiological Needs:
the needs related to thoughts and emotions.
Universal Design:
designing homes to fit people with a wide variety of physical needs and abilities.

5. Physical Needs of A Home
Basic needs housing fills for people
Shelter: a place to stay warm.
Comfort: an appropriate amount of furnishing.
Protection: a safe place between the family and the “larger environment”
Safety: from unwanted intrusions like burglars and wild animals

6. Physical Needs of A Home
A home’s style or décor should not be one’s first thoughts when looking for a home. One should think about themselves.
A home should be a refuge that calms, pleases, and makes no demand.
Physical needs or demands on homes are layering and growing, with design concern for safety.
People today tend to be more concerned that their homes are comfortable, organized and secure homes that offer peace apart from the world.

7. Meeting Needs through Housing
Breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostasis

8. Meeting Needs through Housing
Psychologist Abraham Maslow prioritized human needs, as shown in the previous chart.
According to Maslow, as each need is met, you progress up the pyramid to the next level.
Your basic needs must be met first.

9. Psychological Needs of A Home
Coming home should feel like coming home to a big hug.
It should be a place that provides a calm, secure place from the outside warm.
5 main needs for personal growth that a home can provide:
Emotional Needs
Social Needs
Privacy Needs
Intellectual Needs
Aesthetic Needs

10. Psychological Needs of A Home
Emotional needs: an environment that provides enough space, light, heat, and quiet, and reduces stress.
Social needs: each family has different social needs and meet social needs in a variety of ways.
Privacy needs: as much as people need a social space, people also need a place that allows them to be alone.
Intellectual needs: a home can provide books, toys, games, hobby materials and music to create a learning environment that improves people’s minds.
Aesthetic needs: the needs to have art and beauty around them. Color, textures, and sounds help fill aesthetic needs. Bringing them together helps individuals meet the need for self-expression, for communicating who you are you.