Invoking Bachelard’s Vertical House, the text takes on a tripartite structure of attic, ground floor and cellar. In the Attic, several ‘word houses’ are constructed based on etymological, poetic, phenomenological, literary and architectural examples, each ‘house’ inhabited by a different species of nook. Here the nature and complexity of the nook is disclosed. The Ground Floor explores the nake as the nook’s antithesis via an exploration of Sergei Eisenstein’s never-made film The Glass House, by which the architectural importance of the nook is given greater emphasis and urgency. Following this, the reader enters a cellar: a repository of items indexed from the text for further study; an unfinished inventory from which to invent further ideas.