How important is what you like to your residential interior environment?

How does what you like weight in against what is good design for your residential interior environment?

Every thing that has happened since the big bang up to the present time is a factor in what you like.

The good news is that you don’t have to be aware of all of it or how much all of it is a factor in what you personally like for your residential interior environment.

The emotional, physical, psychological, cultural, educational, intellectual, spiritual, sexual, financial, upbringing, et cetera aspects of your life that you have known, or are currently experiencing, are the most important factors that determine what you like for your personal living environment.

Evaluate, analyze, appreciate, prioritize, et cetera each of these aspects of your personality and their degree of importance in your current living experience to arrive at the best final choices, aesthetic, functional, and like, which may end up like a mosaic, in planning for your personal environment.

Then stay on track and adhere to this course of action with this plan.

Such a course of action will result in the highest level of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, appreciation, and wholeness for your unique personality daily living experience.

Food for thought.

In the world of fashion, especially women’s clothes, there are often two types of selection.

Those who choose short term to follow trends with the latest designs which show names and labels.

And those who choose long term the best quality, best fitting, and best designs which are congruent with their personality and life styles and which have no visible names or labels.

The first broadcast to the world and the second is quiet confidence.

While the choices we make for our residential interior environments are more long term and not as subject to fashion changes, there are similar principles involved.

While there are constant updates, trends, and new things available in the home furnishing and building industries it is not always of merit to select such.

Before making a final selection for each and all of the different aspects that make up the total of your personal living spaces ask your self the following types of questions.

Why do I like it, does it fit me comfortably physically, psychologically, intellectually, and emotionally, is it functional for my life style activities, how will I react to it several years down the road, does it’s aesthetics excite me, will it become dated, will I become bored or tired of it, is it a good investment for the resources expended to obtain it, et cetera?

Are the selections being made for me or what will make the residence more saleable in the future?

Trends, what’s new, popular, et cetera are not good or bad in and of themselves but why they are selected that is of quality merit.

Food for thought.

Several different paint companies as well as various home shelter magazines have come out recently with their “color of the year” and the “Barbie” phenomenon has flooded the world with the color pink.

Viewing these colors is of intellectual interest because there are many given of which each is the “color of the year”.

As residential interior colors are not changed as often as nail polish and lipstick the presentation of theses colors of the year are primarily geared toward the masses for manufacturing, building, current events, and trends especially for consumers who drawn toward such.

Depending upon the intelligence and quality of the aesthetics used for such manifestations they can easily become negatively dated.

At the highest aesthetic level these colors should not be a choice factor for your residential interior design unless their use is the best choice for the long term of the space as all quality residential interior design projects should be.

Do you choose as your direction in life to become one of the masses or to going your own personal route?

There is an old ism that yesterday’s news lines today’s bird cage.

Food for thought.

Why are we doing this?

Above and beyond the physical, legal, safety, convenient, functional, climate, financial, et cetera parts of a residential interior design what is the why, especially for aesthetics, behind the non-physical choices made that are going to make it personally successful for the people who live there?

With personality being the sum total of unique physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual characteristics of an individual what personality trait decides why what is done is done?

What aspect of the project is going to make it personally successful?

Is it to follow a trend, what is popular, a reflection of social-economic status, what they like, make it saleable in the future, make a statement, level of quality desired, how other people may react, satisfying some inner emotional, intellectual, or psychological need or desire, et cetera?

It is often times wise when designing residential interior spaces to step back from the project and take a critical, realistic, and all aspects objective look at the project from the why it is being done before it is done for personality satisfaction when it is completed.

What is the non-physical personality why where you live?

Food for thought.

The most successful residential interiors are complete.

There are three aspects: function, aesthetics, and personality.

The biggest affecting physical sense is the visual.

The strongest affecting non-physical responses are the emotional and intellectual ones of the occupants.

The delight, pleasure, happiness, joy, and satisfaction experienced by presence in the space is the crowning glory of the experience.

When the highest and best levels of these three aspects are concluded there is an absence of anything else.

The project is complete.

Do you experience complete where you live?

Food for thought.

Of the many printed media examples of outstanding residential interior design pictures from different countries in western civilization that have come across my desk recently many have the background, walls, floors, and ceilings with their various architectural features, in the same paint color with a variety of furnishing pieces there in as the finished result.

It’s as if the space were an Easter basket filled with the most outstanding pieces being the best final goal result.

For the highest level of the aesthetic result, it is necessary to take into consideration equally all parts of the whole make up of the entire room.

Walls, floors, and ceilings, with their composition, are the major role of a room with the furnishings playing a minor role and each of all of the elements of the space therein adding to the desired end result composition.

It’s much like cooking in which each ingredient, regardless of quantity, determines the final resulting taste.

In these photographs, as in any efforts, what is the purpose and desired end result thereof should be the determining guide as to what is put into the efforts thereof.

In other works, if it doesn’t add to the desired end result, don’t put it in.

In and of themselves, the history, status, cost, and other intangibles, play no part in the physical results.

What role do each of these parts play in your residential interior environment?

Food for thought.

What determines the value of a residential interior space?

There are two aspects parts to consider.

Tangible and intangible.

Intangible would be history of former occupants and activities of the space, social-economic status, location, current market, quality level of creativity, imagination, originality, psychological, and aesthetics manifest there in.

Tangible would include views, costs and rarity of materials, size, quality level of workmanship and skills, climate control, comfort, function, direction in relation to sun and light, construction, and maintenance.

The emotional and intellectual positions of people involved are also factors involved in the evaluation.

The proportional values of both aspects determine the final value given and are subject to changes and variations.

Of tangible and intangible which is more sensitive, important, aware, and present in your residential home environment?

Food for thought.

Recent information coming across my desk shed a different light on smart houses.

Cars have become increasingly computerized to monitor more vehicle functions and operations with out human action. And movements are underway where driving itself is accomplished with out people participation.

Thusly, there are such movements toward more functions, operations, and controls of the home.

The best and most effective temperatures and lighting systems can now be adjusted by computer.

Smart kitchen appliances have their cooking and storage functions directed by computers.

Security and entrances to residential buildings can be controlled by electronic devices.

You can even have selected music follow your physical movements through out your house.

All of which is a path toward our physical residential interior environment experiences being regulated by electronic devices and not human actions.

These different systems can even be operated off premises by cell phones.

Electronics are not my area of expertise, but their arrival in the interior design of residences is within the scope of my profession.

One manufacturer assembles all of these systems in motor vehicles.

In residential construction these systems may be from different manufacturers and are not always together on the same “beam” which can lead to problems especially when their functions overlap.

If all of the different systems of a smart house are under one interrelated unit, what happens when one or more become inoperable for what ever reasons?

Is it wise, practical, safe, or comfortable to have “all of your eggs in one basket”?

How much non-person control is comfortable with your psyche?

Which one is the servant and which one is the master?

Food for thought.

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Mark Twain is quoted as saying: “Choosing the right word is the difference between a lightning bug and lightning.“

In preparing food, we generally choose doing what will result in the best tasting experience.

How and when each ingredient in the recipe is used and how it affects the other ingredients determines the final taste.

This method also applies to the final aesthetic results when designing, or not designing, a residential interior.

Every element in the space, from the background to accessories, is a factor in and of itself and in ascertaining the total.

Does not making intelligent and quality choices in our personal spaces which are factors in our emotional, psychological, and intellectual well being merit the expenditure of resources required in achieving such?

Who makes the choices for the residential spaces in which you live and move and have your being and what are the results?

Food for thought.

There is an ism within the design profession that a camel is a horse designed by a commitee.

Television shows featuring building or remodeling of houses often come up during my treadmill exercises at the gym.

The goals generally expressed during these television shows are the achievements of specific items, functions, and spaces within the structure.

Often, the large square footage of the spaces is emphasized.

Collaboration on the features sought for the final goals of the structure comes from discussions, suggestions, opinions, and way finding for each specific part to achieve each one.

Each specific goal is achieved one step at a time and then on to the next.

The aesthetics of the whole are usually not considered.

The end results, there fore, are the achievements of specifics and not a complete balanced composition of function, personality, and aesthetics.

We are all different people in different situations on different levels in life.

Where are you in relation to your remodeled or built residential environment?

What emotions, positive and negative, do you experience therein?

What are your goals for your personal residential interior environment?

Food for thought.