It’s -8 degrees C outside, an old gas heater is steadily warming up the living room and all I can think about is this quote from Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space: “… if I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity in its depths.”