Crediting my grand mother with the saying: ” There is more than one way to cook chicken.“ seems to have some relevance to some of the situations involving our residential life styles today.

Due to the restrictions placed by the virus, more people are working and some are raising and educating children from our homes.

Also, these restrictions have severely reduced our social contacts with other people thus making it more important for the emotional and psychological activities than now must take place in our homes.

Perhaps these changes to our residential life styles can be an incentive for us to take a critical look at all of our interior spaces, how they are used, and for what purposes.

Are we making the best uses of our interior spaces? Can more and/or different activities take place in different than currently used places?

Is there any space any where in our house that is not being used or could be used more productively or efficiently?

Are we making the best use of storage, natural light and views, sizes and shapes of rooms, their relationship to each other, and traffic patterns?

There can be situations here in which imagination and creativity manifest more results than knowledge.

As in all interior design situations, we need to work with the laws of physics and the principles of aesthetics.

Food for thought.

The virus is affecting the entire world and putting more demands on our living environment.

How do these demands, with which we have to live today and which are probably going to make changes to our residential uses more permanent, say about our homes?

Basic shelter from the elements is first. We need plumbing and power sources for lighting, indoor climate control and for living activities. Resources for activities of human expression are needed.

Above these requirements, life is enhanced when we express our emotional selves and life styles in our home environment.

Because of the virus, new requirements are coming into focus.

There is now a need for cleaner and healthier air, eliminating objects and activities for better germ control, more spaces and larger spaces for more and more varied activities at home

Think about how these changes affect you personally now and in future for long term results.

We generally choose to eat foods that taste good. Using this same approach we can make changes to our residential environments that also allow us to live with beauty.

A well designed residential interior combines beauty, functions, personalities, and life styles to be complete.

Using the laws of physics and the principles of aesthetics, we are unlimited in what we can manifest for our living environments.

Food for thought.

Taste as related to personal taste which is not about what you eat or the guidelines and standards in manners and social graces but what affects you personally is the definition of the word used here.

Taste, for residential interior design, refers to the preferences of the choices you make in your living environment.

There are many factors which determine the choices we make for our residential interior designs.

Early childhood experiences are a big factor and well as influencing experiences through all of our lives.

Such makes sense as we can relate to why these preferences are made.

Another factor which might not be as obvious is what is in us from our ancestors.

What is in us can be traced back to the initial stages of humans existence.

We may not be aware of it but it is there.

One’s personal taste for residential aesthetics can be educated and enhanced through various means, but underneath it all there is some element of our personal taste from some aspect of our past that will come up and be manifest in our aesthetics choices.

We are all human beings with billions of activities going on in our brain constantly which affect the tangible and intangible manifestations of how we live.

Seeking to know and understand ourselves increases the quality of our living experiences.

Food for thought.

We are getting into the new year with many positives and many negatives happening.

In this country, we will have a new government administration in office and progress is being made with the virus.

Many successful executives and companies during this time of year evaluate and analyze their situations for changes and improvements to become more productive and profitable.

In the same spirit of evaluation and improvement, it can be a good time to take a close intelligent look at your residential interior environment especially now that because of the world’s medical situation we are spending more time in it.

What is best as is and what needs to go and what can be added to make things better?

Intelligently taking these steps can raise our level of living aesthetically, psychologically, emotionally, intelligently, and financially.

Are not the expending of the necessary resources to achieve such results worth the efforts involved?

Think about it.

Food for thought.

There is more and more evidence scientifically being made known that our physical environment affects our emotions, thinking, and psychology.

These scientific truths are becoming well aware to much of the world’s population with the restrictions placed on our movements and the requirements to stay home imposed by the virus.

These facts only reinforce what we should have known and practiced in our lives before this pandemic.

An intelligent and quality aesthetic thought out, planned, executed, and maintained residential interior is a tremendous factor in our quality of living our lives.

Perhaps you don’t care and such is not important to you while staying in your present residential environment.

Perhaps the intensity imposed by today’s restrictions will make you more aware to improve your residential environment to the best and healthiest it can be when such options become available.

The choices are yours.

How do you choose to live your life?

Food for thought.

For what ever reasons, the entry for 12-21-2020 did not appear. It is being repeated here.

Beauty is in and of itself of merit.

It is a basic nature of the human race which nutures our being and enhances our existence.

Beauty is in all things if we look for it and not just in works of art.

All physical manifestations are composed of line, form, mass, color, and texture which are the defining characteristics of all physicality.

When we look to see, these elements are acknowledged and can be experienced.

During these trying times around the world, it is more important than ever to seek, acknowledge, and appreciate beauty in all it’s forms which are ever present in all that we see.

Our mind set and what we think determines what we experience in life.

Positive approaches to and building on what we have increases itself.

What do you choose to experience in your life?

Food for thought.

“When you change how you look at things, the things you look at change.” unknown

Our mind set, how we look at things, determines what we see.

For most of my life, I’ve heard people react to non-realistic works of art: “What’s it suppose to be? or, “It looks like”.

It’s not suppose to be, it is what it is. Look at things aesthetically for what they are. Not what you project onto them.

This analysis is still used by many people in many cultures around the world for any thing that does not fit their concepts.

If such is your position, grow up, educate your self, expand your horizons, and stop evaluating the world according to where you are.

There is a song popular during the second world war: “Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mr. In Between.”

Taking such a posture, when looking at and approaching life, will open up new worlds of beauty to you and make your life more positive and fulfilling.

Think about it.

You do think, don’t you?

Food for thought.

” What’s cool is the choice of the present.

What’s classic is the choice of the ages. “

Questroyal Fine Arts, LLC

There is currently a trend for many people to choose inexpensive contemporary home furnishings because of fun and price.

As we go through periods of development and maturity, our choices reflect where we are.

As such, it is wise to think of were we are going as well as where are.

Quality of manifestation and level of aesthetics determine longevity.

Contemporary and past period designs can both be classics.

For some thing as important as the resources expended and non tangible aspects of our residential environment, these choices should be intelligently as well as emotionally well thought and planned choices.

What are the choices you make for your residential environment?

Food for thought.

Growing up, I observed a very prominent church located on a very busy street corner tear down their old Romanesque building and construct a very big and beautiful new structure in the English-American traditional style with a large columned front and a tall steeple.

It was a very beautiful structure.

From the side walk, one could walk up steps to the elaborate front doors, ascend the interior steps to a handsome landing, and through magnificent doors into the sanctuary.

To go from the outside front to the inside of this building was an aesthetic experience.

There was one small negative aspect to the overall design of this building.

Rarely, if ever, did many of the thousands of people who went to this church each year use this entrance.

A small outside door on the parking lot side of the building was where they entered.

This situation is typical of human behaviors in many of it’s activities.

We don’t seek, see, use, experience, or appreciate the beauty that surrounds and is available to our lives.

What we choose to do with all of the resources expended in our life time determines the experiences of our lives.

What is the level of beauty you choose to experience in your residential environments during your life time?

Food for thought.

In a waiting room recently, I notice that the pictures had been framed with non-glare glass.

The reason usually given for using non-glare glass is that it prevents reflections on the glass.

The question to ask is: Why are you framing what you are framing?

The goal of framing any thing, as it should be in other aspects of life, is to make it the best it can be.

Non-glare glass distorts what is framed when you look at it.

There fore, it lowers the bar for why some thing is framed.

If some thing is of enough merit to be framed, is it not of merit to frame it the best it can be?

As stated in my book: If you insist upon using non-glare glass for framing, you should only view it through eye glasses with scratched lenses.

Non-glare glass is an no, no, no for aesthetics.

Of course, there will always those people who insist that minor aspects trump the quality of the whole.

The best quality of glass I have found, thus far, is museum glass which solves all of the problems of using glass for framing and presents the framed object at it’s clearest best.

It is generally more expensive, but if you are going to do it: Do it the right way.

Food for thought.