This article presents a specific approach to the question of dwelling from the point of view of practice theories. Dwelling is defined as “coping with space”, as opposed to approaches where the occupation of dwellings and/or immobility of individuals are prominent. Selected elements of different theoretical approaches that focus on the concept of practice are made explicit and critically analysed regarding their heuristic capacity to approach dwelling. A photograph representing people doing something in a touristic situation serves as starting point. In a second step, this touristic situation is utilised to think about one of the contemporary characteristics of dwelling, which is the pervasive nature of spatial mobility. Finally, selected elements of theories of practice that can be mobilized for analyses of contemporary dwelling. One of the issues is the coherent conceptualisation of the spatial dimensions of practice conceived a priori without references to spatial issues.