What is the purpose of personal living spaces and what determines their value there of?

The basic purpose of a residences is essentially to provide shelter and protection from the elements of weather.

What is needed and a place to do it for a life style of living comes there after.

When these needs within the financial, location, weather, market, et cetera circumstances of acquiring are met, what is or determines a residential value worth?

Residences are for living.

Residences are not made to grow crops, manufacture items, or provide services as a business and are not investment stocks.

What makes for the quality of life style activities is the value of a where one lives.

While the cost and number of square feet are dwelling financial aspects how such spaces are used are the value.

Food for thought.

What are the advantages of using professional interior designers services?

Professional interior designers have resources, literally from around the world, that are unknown or unavailable to lay persons.

They have contacts and are aware of workmen, techniques, businesses, knowing what is doable, schedules, and availabilities relating to residential constructions and furnishings.

They can offer almost unlimited choices for all aspects of the project.

Their results will be lasting value through the years.

The quality of materials and workmanship will be high.

The levels of aesthetics and every day living will be higher and result in better physical, emotional, intellectual, mental, and spiritual health.

Expended financial resources will be validated.

Aesthetically pleasing designed houses are generally more saleable.

Generally in life we receive the level of quality for which we pay.

Food for thought.

The public is flooded with exposure to interior design sources.

There are constant sources being exposed about current residential interior design such as color of the year, what trends are in, what is out, television shows, advertisements, celebrity designers, traditions, magazines, economic and social status, friends, resale situations, best buys now, et cetera.

How does a lay person go about choosing with what and whom to work when ready for changing their interior living space?

First, understand the difference between selling and designing.

Do you want to purchase new furnishings or create an aesthetic environment?

What level of quality is wanted for each aspect of the project?

What is your doable budget for the project?

For whom and what purpose are these interior living spaces to be used?

What feeling, ambiance, personality, image, look, presentation, et cetera is desired?

What is the education and intelligence level of choices available?

What is the experience of whom is there?

What are the options of designing and materials used?

How do all of the personalities involved work together as a team with common goals?

What is the best route to take to arrive at your desired results?

The best results are manifest when you choose with what and with whom to work using the laws of physics and principles of aesthetics that are congruent with your desired goal results.

Food for thought.

Any residential interior design project, new or redone, requires many choices with many people having only one priority.

Many people approach such projects on the current situation as opposed to the best long term, sometimes evolving, results.

The best results results come from planning the project as one would plan long term financial goals.

Doing such involves giving intelligent thorough philosophical thought to the project.

Long term results, some times years in the future, should trump immediate now situations.

What is the ultimate function of these interior spaces? What activities by whom people are to take place in these spaces?

How will the type and scope of these activities change over the coming years?

What is the most important significance in ambiance and emotion and intellect for people using these spaces?

What is the best long term expenditure of resources, time, money, and others, for the ultimate goals of these projects?

What aspects of these spaces can be manifest that are the individual signatures of the users which will make these spaces uniquely theirs?

When these questions have been fully and successfully answered, you can then more wisely move toward the physical doable steps of time, budget, scheduling, availability, labor, contractors, requirements, permits, et cetera.

Expended wisdom results in abundant results.

How is this school of thought reflected in the personal spaces in which you live and move and have your being Life?

Food for thought.

Their residential status is of utmost importance to some people to the extent that it trumps other aspects of their personal living spaces.

This status may be based on monetary, history, occupants present and past, location, et cetera.

Status, what ever it is, in and of itself, does not affect the physical.

Status does not affect the aesthetics of the physical.

The type of activities to take place in a space does not affect it physically.

What clothing is worn in it does not affect the physical of a space.

These non-tangible traits and characteristics attributed to a space are emotional and intellectual.

They are two of the main factors as to how we react and use a space.

The laws of physics and principles of aesthetics determine the physical and beauty quality level of a space.

Pause and analyze the spaces in which you live and have your being.

When occupying interior spaces, of what you see and how you react to it, how much is physical, intellectual, emotional, status, aesthetic, functional, et cetera?

Spaces which fulfill all of these aspects are complete which is the ultimate goal of the highest quality residential interior design.

How do these different aspects stack up in the spaces you personally occupy?

Food for thought.

“Trendy is the last thing before tacky.” Karl Largerfeld

Regular readers of this residential interior blog are well aware that this writer is not a fan of trends.

There are different aspects and conditions and considerations between the personal environment in which we choose to live and how we choose to clothe ourselves.

However, for those people seeking the highest levels of the aesthetic experience and personal expression, trends, in and of themselves, are not going to get you there.

The laws of physics and the principles of aesthetics are universal.

Mass production and consumption are the major driving forces in the economy.

Such is a basic fact of finances.

For those few people who are not sheep following the crowd and have the integrity and desire for a better and more fulfilling experience of being themselves, seeking and finding a unique pathway manifest itself in great rewards.

Who are you and where are you in your living spaces and dressing yourself choices?

Food for thought.

I don’t like it.

How many times have you heard someone make that comment?

What are they saying and why are they saying it?

When about residential interior designs, or something else of quality or preference, it could mean that they do not find such congruent with their personal aesthetic preferences or that it does not measure up to their standards of what is good aesthetic design.

There is a difference between the two although both may be combined into the same statement.

Is the comment making person involved in the manifestation of the design or do they have some need to express themselves?

If one is not personally a part of, or responsible for, a residential aesthetic manifestation what is the merit of their expressing an opinion?

And sometimes making such a comment is an expression of ignorance.

Analyze and evaluate such comments when they apply to, or are made by you in, your personal situations.

Could not said principle be applied to other situations encountered in life which refer to quality and personal preferences?

What goes through your mind when you hear or make this comment?

Food for thought.

It seems as if every week or so another source comes out with the colors of the year.

Almost as often there is something on what are the big happenings in residential construction for 1924.

Topics come out about what is forecast as the next big movement for residential interior designs.

There are writings about what certain residential interior designers are tired of seeing.

Articles are published on what some residential interior designers project as trends for the coming year.

Other positions are about the interior design likes and dislikes of the authors.

These sources content ranges from construction of houses to characteristics and traits of accessories.

What does all of this information, often conflicting, matter to one and should one be concerned?

Unless this information is going to affect your personal, or business, life in some significant way, such is of no merit to you and is just chit chat.

If it is going to affect some area your life, or be a factor there of, ask questions.

Are these options truly me, what I like, where I want to go, or practical, efficient, worthy of my projects, or do I really care?

Am I confident enough to select and follow my pathway’s direction or am I more comfortable and at home being a sheep and following the crowd?

What’s your reaction to all of this constant flow of residential information?

Food for thought.

Recent studies have have shown that awareness of, participation in, exploring, and appreciation of any kind of art results in very positive happenings in our bodies many of which we may not be aware.

There are college majors for art therapy.

Scientific studies show that association and involvement with art has a direct positive physical health affect straight to our hearts.

Art, as shown in various studies, can help with loneliness in today’s computerized life styles.

Intelligent and quality aesthetic residential interior design is art.

Residential interior design often is chosen for status, snobbery, making a statement, egoism, tradition, business, or a variety of other reasons.

But, when it comes up does any one recognize it’s health benefits.

To be intelligently cognisant of quality residential interior design manifestations the emotional, psychological, and physical health parts thereof must be evaluated along with the aesthetic aspects with each being a part of the complete whole.

And at their highest level, all works of art must be complete as well as whole.

To state that the general population is vastly unaware of what is residential interior design and what it does would be a massive understatement.

Where are you and what is in your mind when experiencing your personal living spaces?

Food for thought.

It’s the season when the world, personally and commercially, goes full blast on holiday decorations, indoors and outdoors, for fun and emotion and celebration like no other time or season during the year.

As it is the biggest shopping time of the year, many stores, and some individuals, start the process weeks, and some times months, before the actual date so that it takes away from the joy and anticipation of the event.

Studies show that these decorations are out about 20% of the year not including the year around locations that specialize in such.

The principles of design, or the ignorance there of, go out the window and pure emotions take oven in all economic, social, and religious manifestations.

So be it as it brings joy, and some times peace, around the world.

If you choose to do the highest level of aesthetics for your decorations during this season, remember that the principles of beauty, as have come into being during the history of civilizations, still apply and will result in quality and intelligent results.

Which is of more importance to you for what you do, or don’t do, for this season celebrations?

Food for thought.