This book, which Jeremy Aynsley co-edited with Dr Charlotte Grant, is the major publication derived from a five-year programme of research carried out by the AHRC RCA Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior which Aysnley led as the Centre's Director. It represents an ambitious and authoritative overview of changing representations of the domestic interior and offers 10 thematic chapters that deal with specific genres of representation of the interior, with discrete geographical and chronological foci.

Imagined Interiors examines in detail the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last 500 years. It looks at a rich array of depictions of the home, including paintings, novels, architectural plans, advertisements, television, film, diaries, sketches and photographs. Dealing with both public and private attitudes to the domestic interior, the book analyses a vast range of material, from grand decorative schemes to homely cottages. Its originality lies in its consideration of a broad range of representational media at times of their increasing significance.

Aynsley's co-authored essay, Displaying Designs for the Interior in Europe and America, 1870–1950, analyses the various strategies employed to present designs for the domestic interior to a professional and public audience in Europe and America in the period of early Modernism. Aynsley argues that the period witnessed a concerted effort among professional bodies to promote an advanced vision of the modern interior, while at the level of popular representation more traditional and national values were also often current, and were central to a conventional meaning of 'home'.

Presentations on the research undertaken towards the book included Aarhus University, Department of Art History, February 2004; Barcelona University, Department of Art History, April 2004; The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, December 2005; and Bard Center for Graduate Studies, New York, March 2006.