This article proposes an interpretation of dwelling (considered as the action of dwell) starting from the concept of experience. The concept, generally speaking, covers the whole set of interactions between the individual effecting the action and the world. The spatiality then constitutes the spatial dimension of this experience at the same time as the vector of the daily construction of the habitat — that is all the space-time of life situations that are particular to each human. The article develops this approach starting from a photograph, quite ordinary and profane in the sense that it has no intrinsic scientific value. However, it does form an image-concept which allows modelling of the dwelling experience and provides the ingredients for making observations. This is particularly the case for the operator-object-environment relationship which prevails at the core of the spatiality, as well as for the significance of the tension between the action of laying roots and opening-up within that of dwelling.