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.

Where are you when it comes to the design, and every physical expression is a design and is good or bad whether or not you care about it or whether or not you are aware of such, of the spaces in which you personally live.

My biggest shocking career experience when entering the business world after college was that some people really don’t care about the aesthetics of the spaces in which they personally live.

My second biggest was the low level of knowledge and intelligence expressed concerning the art and science of aesthetics.

Where we are today is the results of evolution since the big bang and our individual environment.

During this evolution an attraction for aesthetics has come into being as seen in the mating behavior of the lower species.

The higher the level of intelligence and advances of civilization the more an appreciation and expression of a higher quality level of aesthetics comes into being.

Each of us is our own individual expression of life.

Where are you on the aesthetic scale?

What role does aesthetics play in the satisfaction, completeness, and fulfillment of your expressed life on this planet?

What degree of importance is such to you?

Food for thought.

What is the direction to go when making choices about the design of your residential interiors?

One designer says if you have brass fixtures they look dated and should be replaced with some thing more contemporary. Another designer says changing to brass fixtures makes a more desired look.

How many different sources have come out with “colors of the year” that are all different?

What trends are building contractors seeing for the current market?

What changes are being manifest in residences because of the pandemic, finances, market, and other society changing events locally and world wide?

What is an individual to do?

Unless you are interested in housing aspects dealing with the masses, in which case you should not be adhering to this blog, the direction you choose to go is more clear.

If your ultimate goal is to make your personal living spaces a home, and all personal living spaces should complete you as home, the principle to follow is timeless.

“Unto thine own self be true.”

What do you like? What is your life style? Where do you want to live?
What are your finances? What is your desired level of quality. What is the planed length of time living there, and how long do you want physical furnishings to last?

Use this information, after thorough examination and soul searching, to make the choices that fit you at the time.

No confusion. No concern about the reactions of others. Just you manifesting you.

Food for thought.

When should you first make contact with an interior designer for a residential project?

When you are first thinking about doing a project.

The size, nature, extent, budget, requirements, life styles, et cetera of the project should be thoroughly discussed and analyzed to see if everyone potentially involved is on the same page, are communicating, have the suitability of working together, and have the necessary qualifications.

Such should take place before actually beginning the project.

At this stage, and always, be cognizant that the ultimate goal is to design and not just the selling and buying of merchandise and services.

The raison d’etre for an interior designer is to design.

When initiating the project be sure that all persons involved are kept informed of scheduling, when, where, and how their roles are to be played, and that all are working together as a team.

Planning, cooperation, and team work will not solve all the problems which invariably will come to pass and will make the entire project happen more smoothly, efficiently, and professionally but will also will probably manifest in a higher level of aesthetic results.

Food for thought.