This work is the result of my experience as a member of TV Globo s Production Design team of and my participation in the study group focused on Design & Aging in the Applied Research Laboratory of Design - Memory and Emotion of PUC-Rio. It brings reflections based on assumptions of the Anthropology of Consumption and on the idea that our material universe is the expression of our identity and our culture, beliefs, values, lifestyles and personalities. It also documents visits to homes of fictional elders and real elders. The fiction elders visits were held in the homes of the following characters: Nenê (played by Marieta Severo), Darlene (played by Marilia Pera), Violeta (played by Gloria Menezes) and Picucha (played by Fernanda Montenegro). They were based on Production Design procedures , that together with Set Design and Costume Design, build the house and characters things based on their respective profiles and synopses. The visits to the real elders homeswere conducted in nine residences in Gávea, neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, and included participant observation techniques and ethnographic interviews. They were based on the reverse path taken by the activity of the Production Design and sought assemble profiles of real elders from their homes and things. This work was motivated by the growing and irreversible phenomenon of populational aging and longevity and by the fact that, despite numerous and diverse the audience over 60 years old is still treated as homogeneous. The image of the frail elder, sick and dependent is associated with nursing homes, canes, wheelchairs and adult diapers is in process of change, but it is still recurring in conversations, screens and pages. This work aims to propose a method to know the people for whom projects in general and the elderly in particular, from their homes and things. It s mission is to contribute to build a positive view, broad and plural about elderly and its material universe.