This chapter is focusing on the material changes taking place when people stay at home because of pandemic restrictions. I discuss how homes have to make room for work, school activities, or a new family life by re-furnishing, using existing objects in new ways, or investing in new interior decorations and functions. The focus is on how new uses and combinations of objects originating from different arenas create innovative aesthetic experiences and ideals within the home. 

This text is part of a larger research study in which I analyze different aspects of how the staying at home situation is reorganizing our homes: socially, materially, and spatially. The research material is collected within a Swedish context and is based partly on interviews with people who are staying at home for various reasons, and partly on visual mediations of the staying at home situation.