When Jackie Kennedy moved into a house after her husband’s death, a newspaper reported that an interior designer from New York came down and “prettified” it.
Certain interior residential spaces of well known widows were described by the press as being “artful” in appearance.
Some interior residential interior spaces, furnishings, and houses have been described as “modernistic” in the print and advertising media.
Some writers have described certain residential spaces they have covered as being “tasteful” in the manifestation there of.
What do these words mean to the people who use them and what does it say about their knowledge, research, and understanding of interior design?
Along with the emphasis on selling as opposed to designing used by many people in the residential industries, using such words reflects the lack of knowledge of what is interior design by such people.
So, what does this lack of knowledgeable mean and matter in your personal and day-to-day living in your life?
Think of all of the resources you expend on where you live, especially long term, such as costs, maintenance, improvements, time living there, emotional and psychological, life styles, functions, comforts, convenience, et cetera.
For the role that your personal living spaces plays in your life during your time on this planet, is is not worthy to be knowledgeable about these spaces as you are about the other important aspects of you life?
We are all human beings on this planet and our decisions determine what we experience during that time.
What does the quality of where you live, what you want there, and what you do or not do mean to you?
Food for thought.