Your family lifestyle is shaped by its unique combination of individual charac- teristics and personal preferences. Each family's lifestyle is different because of

the unique combination of personalities and living habits of its members. These characteristics interact to influence the

family's patterns of active and passive activities. Among these factors are the parents ages, spacing of siblings by age and gender, occupation(s), educational activities and experience, physical attributes and/or handicaps. Merging into this array of fixed characteristics is a variable assortment of preferences that are equally influential in determining the layout of the home. These preferences include hobbies, athletic activities, social interests, children's play and/or group activities, teenage "hang-outs," areas for reading, sewing, wood works, art studio, crafts, exercise, sauna, photography, and places for wrapping gifts and packages. These are a few of the myriad interests and activities that are generated by per- sonal preferences that form the family's