This project starts from two major lacunae in research. Despite substantial progress in the study of premodern material culture, historians have failed to add a spatial dimension to their knowledge about household goods, and have missed how ensembles of objects really function and impact on the agency of (male and female) household members ; on the other hand art historians have, because of insufficient knowledge about the household goods themselves, failed to understand what messages domestic scenes in visual culture convey. This project will investigate the spatial dimension of households and look at object ensembles in order to capture how the diverse domestic material culture was used in socially different households of the Low Countries. It creates real synergies between the two disciplines, because the research results in one discipline are necessary building blocks in the analyses of the other: art historians need a good understanding of the composition of material culture to assess the true meaning of their visual representation, and historians need the visual representation of interiors to assess how people interacted with their domestic surroundings. This project will enable an open access data-system with 1,000 inventories that have been collected in earlier projects, a critical step forward in scholarship, and it will result in a new approach of visual representations in Netherlandish art. The end goal is a synthesis on domestic cultures in the 15th-16th c.