Home-Maker explores what it is like to be housebound, to live your life alone within four walls, focusing on the artefacts that the interviewees collected over a life time and how these objects represent memories and stories from their history. Often the stories are about the person who used to share their life who is no longer with them. The films also document in the intimate nature of the interviews, the close relationship that developed between the artist and the subjects.

The panoramic format was chosen to reflect being housebound; the rooms are perfect circles, enclosed worlds. This echoes the life of the participants - as they are all housebound much of their living takes place in this one room. As the participants also live alone they make all decisions about how the room looks. For necessity many objects are within reach and five of the participants have moved from larger houses to these smaller ground floor flats, their whole lives possessions are now squashed into a smaller space.

Home-Maker Tokyo was commissioned after Home-Maker UK received a Canon digital award in Japan. Viewing the Tokyo and Derbyshire work side by side offers the opportunity to compare and contrast the lifestyles of two very different cultures. There are immediate, obvious differences; in Japan living space is at a premium so the rooms shown are smaller and more cluttered than the UK rooms. However, listening to the testimonies in the films reveals similarities of experience of losing a loved one from one continent to the other.