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.