Tearing Down Walls

Humans like to separate things. We love it. The human mind is a classifying machine. Just look at Linnaeus. He classified the heck out of some animals. It is human nature to separate and to classify and to make judgments based on those separations and classifications.

In our homes we separate our rooms. The living room is the space within a series of boundaries, walls. The kitchen is x amount of feet large and extends to the golden, metal bar that is nailed in place in the exact center of the hole that was cut into the wall to allow the passage of humans and goods. Nature divides living creatures into individual cells. Perhaps there is some sort of holistic relationship to all of this. I don't know. I'm not a scientist.

What one family did on an episode of Renovation Nation transcends our normal human thinking. They put windows on the inside of their house. These windows allow light to travel from one end of the house to the other.

These indoor windows created a beautiful effect. The house opened up like an enlightened mind. The effect wasn't just for the sake of aesthetics. It also reduced electric bills.

By putting windows throughout the interior walls, the family was able to keep their house illuminated by sunlight during all the hours of the day. The rooms on the eastern side of the house still received sunlight from the setting western sun.

This is an ingenious way to live in what essentially constitutes a box but still think outside of it.