Ideas! We have ideas for your home. Come see our new display house with ideas for you. I want some ideas. This month’s edition is loaded with a hundred ideas you can use for your home. Now, that’s a good idea.

We can be bombarded with the messages that ideas are the measuring device for good residential interior design.

What is the purpose of an idea? Is it relevant and applicable and functional for your situation? Is it practical? Does said idea reflect your personality and life style? Is it fashionable or long lasting? Does it enhance the aesthetic experience?

As in any intelligent and well planned situation, it is advisable to look at all angles and aspects of a situation. Use knowledge, experience, practicality, finances, appropriateness, function, and long term results as well as emotions and intelligence in making and executing a choice.

Do not be persuaded by fashion, what’s different, trends, what’s popular, what they are doing, or what’s hot now. Interior design decisions should be made for long term lasting results.

As I write in my published book, The Layperson’s Beginning Bible of Interior Design, interior design is not an Easter basket filled with the more ideas the better. Approach an interior design project with the goals of function, aesthetics, and user’s personality. Use all talents and materials and knowledge currently available to carry those goals to the highest level possible in all areas. Raise the bar. Then design it. Then execute the design. Then live in, enjoy, and appreciate it.

Don’t get caught up in and eat the potato chips of just ideas.

Food for thought.

 

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