After the demographic explosion of the big cities, reduction of the internal spaces of the housings and hostilization of the public spaces, we can be living the emptyning or limitation of symbolic value of industrialized objects for residence and a possible superiority of inoccuous values, tending to the nostalgic historicism or fallacious decorativism. Emptyness provoked by massification of the industry, supported almost exclusively for the advertising, in detriment of a true and proper symbology of a time or a region. Thus, how can a designer elaborate an environment that attends the individual subjectivities? To make use or arrange furniture and objects in our room is to deal with a moment of close truth, without efemerities and modisms. In the search of facts and impressions interviews were elaborated in four Brazilian capitals: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador and Recife. Those interviews were made with people who decorated their living room by their own. These spaces had also been analyzed. It was chosen as a standard profile interviewed people of purchasing power levels B and C, whose rooms measured between 18 to 35m. The reach of the meaning of objects in the passage for the social instances was verified, from the conception to the moment of use. From the interviews parameters of reference values were identified, on the construction of this signification. It was also verified how was established the relations between the subjective speech of the human desires and the substance-device in the contemporary ambientation. This work provided a reflection on the role of design in the environment elaboration that takes care of to the elementary necessities or subjectivities of the individual, collaborating, thus, for its physical and mental health.