This chapter shows how Sanjib Datta Chowdhury’s anthropological work on spatial rituals in a Dutch residential home for the elderly changed my historical narrative on postwar policies concerning such homes. My initial argument revolved around policymakers’ reports and their notions of good care and independency. Chowdhury’s approach, however, made me revisit both my sources and analysis. First, I started studying the architectural plans and photography in the policy reports in more detail. Second, the ways in which these visualizations marked spaces as private, public, or semi-public, enabled me to explore how middle-class conceptions of what belongs to which type of space-at home, in villages, and in cities-co-inspired the layout of the residential homes. This warranted, in turn, a contribution to Chowdhury’s interpretations of spatial rituals. A more performative reading of the homes’ architectural representation as ritualized space, however, would have enriched the analysis and deepened interdisciplinary integration.