There are two approaches available when it comes to the furnishings for your residential interior living spaces.

You can choose to be a customer or you can choose to become a client.

When you only want to purchase furniture, rugs, window treatments, lamps, pictures, et cetera as individual objects you go shopping for those items at resources available and thusly becomes a customer.

When you want the all of the entire interior spaces including backgrounds and everything in the interior spaces to be designed as one complete aesthetic, functional, and personal whole space you hire a qualified residential interior designer to design and execute the desired results.

The two biggest deciding factors would probably be the levels of quality desired and the financing available.

As a customer one is limited to what is available for sale.

As a client with the creativity, talent, and imagination of a qualified residential interior designer there is no limit as to what can be designed for you.

Another important factor is how long you will be occupying said spaces and how important are the results are to you while living there.

When you are a customer the goal of the people with whom you will be dealing is to sell you what you want to buy regardless of what name or title they give themselves.

When you work with a qualified residential interior design you should have a written agreement with said designer specifying the desired results, the budget for what is to be done, and all specifications for compensation to the interior designer for said services so that their ultimate goal and purpose is to design, specify, supervise, and execute your project.

This agreement is binding and mandatory for both signing parties.

Sales people are generally knowledgeable of only in what they specialize and sell.

Qualified residential designers are knowledgeable about the many options, availability, qualities, accessibility, and choices for all aspects of the desired results project.

In both choices there are ethical, legal, moral, and quality aspects you may encounter as are in much of life’s activities.

How would you characterize your personal experiences and thinking in the choices made

in furnishing your personal interior living spaces?

Food for thought.

According to one of the most successful financial investors of our times the value received and not the price paid should be the deciding factor in making purchases.
And think of purchases not just for the present time situation but for the long term time situation.

This principle can also be applied very successfully to residential interior furnishings.

The quality, comfort, use ability, and lasting time are also value characteristics to be considered.

As how it taste is a factor in what we eat so should design aesthetics be a factor in the ambiance of where we live.

People will spend many tens of thousands of dollars for the thrill, status, bragging rights, and showing off of a new car, as if such were required or expected, but become defensive of such numbers when shopping for furnishing for their personal interior living spaces and instead option for sales, preowned, lower quality, and other sources of low prices.

How long do you keep and use your residential interior furnishings versus how long you use and keep a new car?

Well valued home furnishings, when properly maintained, will literally last and look good for decades.

There is a very wise old ism: Purchase cheap, purchase many times. Purchase quality, purchase once.

A wise quality purchase will almost always be a wise value one.

Think these thoughts when being bombarded with the constant advertisements of life.

What is your position and what are your choices when it comes to the prices paid and value received of the furnishings where you live?

Food for thought.

What need do you seek to fulfill by reading this blog?

Why are you here?

This blog was started and continues to educate laypersons to the basic knowledge of what is residential interior design and help to guide you through applying it to your real life.

The internet is loaded with many different, and sometimes opposite, information positions on the subject.

Much of what is offered there is opinions and personal preferences which is fine for givers personal use but not always as a source of knowledge, wisdom, or guidance for others.

During the course of evolution through the civilizations of mankind certain behaviors have come to be which expressed it’s aesthetic and residential needs, aspirations, and comforts beyond basic survival necessities.

These expressions reflected the times, availability, intelligence development level, and understanding of the place of humans existence in the scheme of existing in physical world reality.

During this journey certain fulfilling approaches became evident, were used, and became the directions of aesthetics.

These approaches throughout history have reflected the discoveries, advancements, and levels of knowledge and intelligence of the times of their manifestation.

Thusly, we arrive at where we are today in our residential interior designs.

Where are you in your time and place seeking life fulfillment for the inside spaces in which you express your being?

A word to the wise: Advance is only made through originality and not through replication.

Food for thought.

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During the history of civilizations there has been a tendency for individuals, governments, businesses, religions, and many other entities to show, by displaying, the world what they’ve got via size, costs, quality, rarity, quantity, status, control, history, et cetera with personal expressions being the most known.

Clothes are often worn with labels, monograms, fabrics, colors, fashions, styles, and mannerisms to express the wearer showing who they are.

The mode, models, and exclusiveness of their methods of transportation, whether it be chariots, horses, buggies, or automobiles, are important to them.

The style, materials, quality, design, landscaping, interiors, and location of where they live are revealed with physical location generally evaluated as the most important one.

Their ancestry, employment, or non-necessity there of, and travel experiences are expressed.

To whom they are married and their progeny are factors to them.

The jewelry, art, furniture, and investments they own contribute to their standing to others.

One’s financial status is one of the biggest aspects in these expressions from nouveau riche to old money with the latter being the most desirable for many of them.

The list of manifestations for showing the world what they have goes on in many ways and expressions.

It is manifest on many different levels of importance by populations.

It has often been my position that for showing the world your worth the most effective, successful, and profound method would be to have your accountant’s balance sheet made into a billboard and displayed in front of your location. lol

In the reality of life all of these things, in and of themselves, are totally unrelated to the quality and quantity of the aesthetics there of.

Look around observing and analyzing what you see of these traits where you are.

What is the significance and importance of beauty in your expressions to the world?

What do you do, or not do, about it?

Food for thought.

“Deep, To the heart, effectively , and completely” Webster

What comes to your inner self when you hear the word “home”?

Is it just where get your personal mail, eat, sleep, groom, et cetera, or is it a more significant and fulfilling role?

How many times have you heard the expression used when someone reached a certain place or position or level and knew they were “home”?

Home should be your emotional, psychological, and intellectual fulfilling place to which you return from the trials and tribulations of life to refresh and recover.

There is a sense of wholeness when you are home.

Home is your central base.

It is where you would rather be than any other place in the world.

There is no want or desire to be any place else.

Home is it.

Being home nurtures.

Home is where you can be you.

Home is not for business or obligations to the outside world. It is totally personally for you.

Home does not necessarily mean a specific physical location but can be any where innermost tangible and non-tangible needs are met.

Having well designed interior spaces enhances our home experience and takes it to a higher level.

Well designed homes carry aesthetics to a previously unknown level that expands our level of existence.

Well designed homes can carry the living experiences there from good to better to best.

Is it not of merit to want the best quality level for our most personal and private living experiences?

Well designed living spaces includes the functions of spaces, the intellectual levels, and psychological levels as well as the aesthetic levels.

When you are home you are complete.

Isn’t a complete home always a more desirable result than an incomplete one?

What is the level of design were you live and move and have your being?

Food for thought.

The beginning of the summer season was celebrated yesterday.

In general, major changes are not made to the designs of our interior living environments for celebrating the four seasons.

There are, however, changes available to make the summer more delightful.

After very closed indoor air quality during the winter it can be deliciously refreshing, when possible, to open exterior doors and windows to the outside weather for fresh air and gentle breezes.

This one change makes the overall summer season most welcome and enjoyable.

Again, where possible, reorienting activities to the outdoors on porches, decks, patios, terraces, in yards, et cetera can be a renewing activity for experiencing summer.

Inside, culling some parts of the interior design furnishings can help inside spaces feel more open and free.

For some situations window treatments are reduced and upholstered furniture is slipcovered in lighter colors with whites and light blues being especially effective for a change of flavor.

The promuigation of summer flowers, whether indoors or outside, heightens the sight and smell senses of the season.

For some, summer showers, and even thunder storms, sunshine, and long daylight hours are enhancing and joyous.

Enjoy your summer.

Food for thought.

Julia Child has shown us that there are many different types of chickens and that they can be prepared and cooked in many different ways.

Each of these recipes is different but results in the presentation of an appetizing, delicious, and satisfying chicken dish.

The same options can be when approaching the design of residential interior living spaces.

Many residences, especially those manifest for a mass market, are built toward a preconceived design concept approach.

These approaches are most often determined by traditions, popularity, trends, cultures, et cetera for this mass market of which the majority of purchasers are not aware of, or are limited, in their awareness of aesthetics and design possibilities.

There is not just one way to cook chicken and there is not just one way to design the living spaces of residential interiors.

Here is where intelligence, imagination, creativity, and knowledge of the principles of aesthetics, along with the laws of physics, can result in the manifestation of higher quality living experiences spaces.

And isn’t a higher quality of living experiences something that we all want?

What kind of chicken was chosen and cooked for the residential interior spaces in which you live and move and experience your being?

Food for thought.

Some of the most successful financial investors of our current population have stated that financial investment purchases should be evaluated and determined by value as opposed to price.

Is it of merit to adhere to this advice principle of some of the world’s most successful billionaires when it comes to our personal residential interior living spaces?

Yes!

Residences are made for living.

The value of where we live should be determined by the completeness of our living there for functions, aesthetics, and personality expressions and not by the current real estate market.

How do you feel emotionally, intellectually, physically, psychologically, and spiritually when occupying where you live?

When you leave there do you look forward to returning there?

Is it your personal base from all the other activities happening around the rest of the world?

How do you feel when you do what it is you do when there?

When all is said and done, which is more important, how fulfilling and complete and beautiful was your residential life or the financial results of where your lived and had your being?

We are all human beings with certain necessary needs and personality traits to be expressed to fully express that humanity.

Where do you want and choose to be for spending your one life on this planet?

Food for thought.

To achieve the highest level quality of aesthetics and functions for residential interior living spaces it is necessary to have some scientific knowledge of what is involved.

Ignorance of the physical characteristics of light, it’s reflection, and materials used limits the ability to create and modify colors with light being the major aspect of all aesthetics and functions.

The knowledge of the physical strengths, characteristics, and the construction materials and methods used for walls, floors, ceiling, furniture, and furnishings is necessary for their construction and functions as well as the aesthetics.

Electrical knowledge is necessary so that all lighting and all things energy using are properly wired and aesthetically and functionally placed before walls, floors, and ceilings can be installed and finished.

Having adequate interior climate controls necessitates knowledge of temperature, moisture, and air flow in addition to knowing installation and aesthetics placement for HVAC equipment.

Knowing the year round pattern of the sun is a factor affecting interior temperatures and light control for all outside openings.

The traits and characteristics of fabrics, woods, metal, glass, stains, dyes, weaves, et cetera are needed for practical, functions, and aesthetics uses of furniture and interior furnishings designs and constructions.

The principles and cultural influences of aesthetic principles are intelligently needed for successfully designed residential interior living spaces.

The knowing and usages of science is what physically manifest these intangible concepts.

For the physical manifestations of where you live and move and have your being are you cognizant of the sciences behind their existence?

Food for thought.

What is the status of residential interior design in this country today?

It exist more. There are more colleges with interior design programs. There is a higher level of science, psychology, intelligence, and aesthetics applied as a profession and less as a social status.

Not every one who calls themselves interior designers are at this level.

Through the modern availability of the internet, and other electronic devices, the general public is more exposed to it’s being.

What does such information mean to you and your life style?

Awareness of the current status of residential interior design as a consumer will enable you to make more discerning choices by which you will experience a more complete and beautiful existence.

How do you get there?

Don’t follow the crowd or get lost in it.

Know who you are and what is best for you and how you live and select such.

Choose what you like that causes you to be happy and fulfilled.

Separate the wheat from the chaff.

Unless it of extreme necessity to fulfill your personality avoid that which is for status

or expectation or “good” taste or trendy.

Think in design terms of quality, usefulness, and longevity.

Where are you in the awareness and knowledge of your personal living spaces?

Food for thought.