Tis the time of year when the world goes over board with decorations.

Businesses, residences, and spaces every where are decorated with good cheer and a joyous mood is expressed with individual manifestations of different beliefs, traditions, and life styles.

Most people are of the position that such makes them feel good and it’s a good thing.

What about decorations affecting our emotions for the rest of the year?

Are you aware of how the design and decoration of our interior spaces, as well as the outside spaces of architecture and landscaping, affect our emotion and psychological and physical senses of being?

What would happen to people everywhere if for the rest of the year we exerted as much to our interior environmental ambiance as was done during this holiday season?

Positive environments give us comfort and incitement.

Numerous studies have shown that our interior environments affects our tangible and intangible behaviors.

The laws of physics and the principles of design manifest the results of how they are used.

Be of good cheer enjoying and appreciating your own state of being during this holiday season thinking of how such can be your overall life in the times to come.

Food for thought.

A top executive at one of the world’s best known multi-billion dollars international companies once fulfilled her need to inform me of the residential interior design profession.

Residential interior designers have a single specialty or niche for their talents and there is where they stay.

They are limited in their imagination and creativity.

They do not have the where with all to express design above and beyond where they are.

These positions were stated to me with the utmost confidence, poise, and strength that superior economic and social status can make.

Most of us are familiar with what comes out of the rear end of a male cow.

With talent, creativity, knowledge, experience, education, and imagination there is literally no limit as to where residential interior designers, as well as many other professions, can creatively go.

Observing human behavior in it’s natural environment over the years has manifest many situations where the bright light of arrogance blinds people to the reality of what is outside and beyond their occupied space and of what they are unaware and are missing in their lives.

Take off your blinders and open yourself up to the magnificence life has to experience.

While having your daily being in the spaces where you live what do you see, feel, and experience ?

Food for thought.

Every human being on the planet is a manifestation of what has happened since the big bang.

Each person is on their individual journey learning how to navigate in their own way for this experience we call life.

In any society civilization there are different levels of where people will, or will not, be on the same page and wave length with each other.

This situation is also evident in the different ways we as human being are aware of, experience, and appreciate what is known as aesthetics or beauty in our lives.

Aesthetics, as we experience it, is a manifestation of line, color, mass, form, and texture composed with which the atoms in our brains react positively.

With in the residential interior profession there are usually positions where agreement, with some minor differences, is congruent as to what is good aesthetic design.

This level of beauty is totally obtained by the laws of physics and the principles of aesthetics.

There are some in the various residential industries who are of positions that other aspects are a factor in the quality level of residential aesthetics.

There is no tangible evidence to support those positions.

Wearing expensive and rare designer clothes in these spaces does not affect the interior design there of.

Who lived there, who slept there, or whose ancestors did something there does not affect the interior spaces.

The location and the price tag of interior residential spaces does not affect their aesthetics.

The rareness, history, and background do not affect aesthetic qualities of the physical.

So, when you are experiencing a residential interior design, what thoughts, other than the physical beauty there in, go through your mind?

How do these aspects affect your acknowledgement and appreciation of the beauty in these spaces?

Food for thought.

What is the function of a house?

How are houses described and listed?

The number of square feet and number of bedrooms is given as if such fulfills all living there requirements.

When it comes to the design of individual rooms and spaces inside houses the overall size and shape of rooms are determined and then the functions are fit into said spaces.

Construction must proceed from outside to inside.

It is the size and shape of the spaces that determine what can be done there.

The execution of the functions of the spaces are determined by the physical shape of the room vs spaces being determined by their functions.

Which appears more intelligent and logical for functional activities?

We’ll select a space and then we’ll have the desired functions fit there in or we’ll use the functional activities of spaces to determine the size and shape of the spaces in which they will occur.

What are the functional activities of a house and how does such determine it’s size and shape for most of the living structures on this planet?

Are square feet and number of bedrooms the most important two factors determining it’s manifestation?

Being well aware of the finances, labor, time, et cetera in the construction of houses, it is of merit to think, imagine, and visualize at a higher more creative level to advance aesthetic levels of civilizations to advance our existence on this planet.

What is the function of a house and and where are we in how such is manifest in today’s society?

What is the creative intellectual aesthetic level of the spaces in which you choose to live and be for your existence on this planet?

Food for thought.

In the course of human civilization man has made use of many chemicals combinations to enhance and improve it’s existence.

These changes were thought to greatly advance and improve life and were normally accepted practices of the times.

As time passed and knowledge increased it became known that many of these chemical uses were dangerous and some could be deadly.

Their biggest danger is that they are invisible.

We can’t see, touch, or hear the dangers so that we are unaware of that presence.

Paint, furniture finish, fabric, carpet, cleaner, and flame retardant are some examples where these dangerous combinations have been used in their manufacturing process.

In this process, as in many processes in life, it is wise to be aware of danger and to use intelligence, logic, caution, and priorities in moving forward.

At the present time there is no entity, government regulation, or nutrition chart of these dangerous combinations for the general public.

There are movements on to eliminate these combinations, not only for interior design but in all situations, for our own health and for the health of our own planet.

May they continue.

Are you cognizant of this factor for the indoor environment in which you live?

Food for thought.

The periodic table lists all known chemical elements with their recurring properties.

All physical things are composed of various compositions of these elements.

The combination of the contained elements with their reacting properties to each other determines what is physically manifest.

These are physical laws of the universe.

These same physical laws are present in the manifestation of aesthetics.

The elements of aesthetics are line, form, mass, color, and texture.

The combination of these elements with their reacting properties to each other determines the manifest aesthetics.

The evolution of mankind and the accomodating principles of aesthetics have determined what we see and experience as beauty in today’s world.

When you experience beauty, especially in your residential environment, what do you see, how do you see it, and how do you react to what you see in relation to these physical laws?

Food for thought.

Different ways in which our behavior is affected by our subconscious mind’s reaction to the interior design of the spaces in which we are is presented in the latest issuing of a well known international interior design source coming across my desk.

Previous other sources have given us information on the affectation of interior design on our physical bodies including even our heart.

All of which just goes to inform us of the influence below the surface, so to speak, of interior design on more than just the experience of the aesthetics thereof.

Our known and unknown of the universe determines our living experience.

Now you know.

Have you ever recognized interior design affecting your manifestations?

Food for thought.

Different companies in the trade information that comes across my desk continually present projected new colors, trends, costs, et cetera considered to be important for residential living spaces on immediate and future manifestations of such.

What is a lay person to do if these presented choices are not congruent with your personality traits?

If you choose not to be a sheep that follows the crowd of mass consumption for the inside of the places in which you live, the paid for services of a professional interior designer can guide you through this transition.

With the current international monetary scene the costs of residential living spaces are continually rising to heights that negatively affect the opportunities for these purchases .

There fore it becomes of more importance to get the best value for these expenditures.

The paid for services of these professionals can save you time and convenience and money by being aware of the current choices, availability, quality, and finances of a project including physical purchases and labors.

The quality of the ingredients, preparation, cooking methods, and resulting tastes determine most of the food we eat.

This same philosophy can be applied to the spaces in which we live.

The choices you make in your life determine your life experiences.

Is it not of merit to make the one life we have on this planet the best that we can?

Food for thought.

The purpose of a residence is to provide shelter from the elements and that is functional, comfortable, and aesthetically pleasing for one’s life styles.

The purpose of a business is to make a product or to provide a service which can be sold for a profit.

Two different entities for two totally different reasons.

Totally different goals for the human activities therein of each.

Yet, some people use the same approach for both.

If it works for one situation, it should work for all situations.

They can’t seem to see the different ultimate goals and change approaching gears accordingly.

Running a business is more of intellectual, practical, producing, economic, and mass appeal toward public activity.

Living in a residence is more emotional, satisfying, expressive, indulging, and pleasant individual personal expression.

A business is to make or provide for a general population need.

A residence is for a personal maximum satisfying home.

When you observe where you work and where you live what interior design differences do you see between the concept and execution of each?

What do you see as the merit of the different interior designs between the two?

Especially, can you distinguish between the different expenditures of financial resources for each manifestation?

Food for thought.

Positions of certain interior designers expressed as rules are often interspersed in articles in the major international residential interior design publication that comes across my desk.

What is the purpose of these rules, who is qualified to make them, to whom are they addressed, and for what purpose?

At it’s essential core aesthetics is not rigid and firm but is a continuum that flows in many directions.

There are myriads of aesthetic manifestations throughout the history of civilizations and will continue to be.

As grandmother said: ” There is more than one way to cook chicken. “

And yet some approaches, for various reasons chosen by some, become prevalent or current to the extent that they are accepted and pontificated as ” rules “.

To consider or to choose to apply usage for such rules as an aesthetic mode of procedure expresses a lack of knowledge of that chemistry which is beauty.

As expressed during the history of civilization that which is most popularly expressed is not always the most intelligent, knowledgeable, and logical.

Rules of residential interior design are made and used by those who are ignorant of the subject.

During your time on this planet when, where, and how have you encountered these rules of residential interior design and what was your reaction to them.

What do you think now?

Food for thought.