Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.
What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.