Home improvement: Domestic taste, DIY, and the property market

Home Cultures

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-24

  Rosenberg, Buck Clifford ^a  

^a Role of Lifestyle in Contemporary Society   (United States)

Author keywords

DIY; Ethics; Home; Lifestyle media; Moral geography; Neo liberal; Property market; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951787424     PISSN: 17406315     EISSN: 17517427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174211X12863597046578     Document Type: Article

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