Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2009, 6 2486 interplay between contexts and individual health activities. For example, this single woman described the physical layout of her open-concept kitchen and living room as a physical place. The meaning of this area of her home shifts ambiguously throughout her story about it. The open-concept arrangement was a “selling feature” that initially attracted her. The kitchen became a healthy or unhealthy space as its meaning was altered by the foods she consumed and her own “frame of mind”: Participant: Okay, my kitchen. It can be both positive and negative. There are some days where I’m in there just looking for any kind of food. And it’s very negative because if the junk [snack food] is in there, I can stand at the counter, watch TV and eat…Interviewer: Okay. It’s an open-concept type area? Participant: Exactly, open- concept. When I bought my apartment that was the selling feature. It’s also good because that’s where I can make more healthy foods…I can have more vegetables and if I’m in the right frame of mind, it’s great to be in there. You chop the veggies and make something good. Her account is a spatial story; it connects places in her home by telling the movements of her practicing body. The ambiguity of her kitchen as a space for practicing “positive or negative” eating habits is further seen in the open-concept connection to the living room. From her kitchen she can see the TV and be distracted from noticing her intake of “junk” or snacks. In the living room is her sofa, where she also spends time watching TV (see Figure 1). Figure 1. The ambiguous spaces of an open-concept kitchen and living room as the location for healthy or unhealthy food consumption and television viewing. Participants described habitual activities that created meaningful spaces within everyday locations.