A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.
Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.
I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
I've lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.
You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.