Through cardboard sculpture, I explore commonplace and domestic objects that underlie a cultural understanding of womanhood that is often fragmented and contradictory. Playing House serves as an examination of how I sought to control and redefine my lived-in environment. I spent my childhood and early adolescence attempting and repeatedly failing to fit the ideals of womanhood I learned attending a charismatic Evangelical Christian church--purity, female submission to male headship, and domesticity. In the same way, my cardboard objects continually fail to meet their ideal form. No matter how closely the object resembles its original, the materiality of the cardboard undermines its realism. As a result, the viewer is constantly reminded that this space and its objects are constructed, causing the installation and its objects to occupy an almost surreal space. This effect reflects not only how I felt in that environment, but also how I now retrospectively understand the conventions and expectations that make up the version of Christian womanhood I was taught. Though this type of womanhood may appear perfect and tangible, upon closer examination its constructed nature will always reveal itself. Just as my cardboard sculpture constructs and reconstructs domestic objects, I have also discovered that I can construct and reconstruct a new version of Christian womanhood.