Google describes “a period of silence in a composition” of music as a rest.

During that period of silence the musical instrument with a rest is not played.

This rest is a necessary part of the total composition.

That part, and the affectation of it with all of the other parts, determines the level of quality of the experienced results desired by the composer for the entire whole musical composition.

This principle can be also applied to the aesthetic results for the design of residential interior spaces.

Not every space has to be filled.

Whether for minimum or maximum aesthetic style design goals results this composition approach principle can be applied, but it is also not essential, for all residential interior design compositions.

And all residential interior spaces are compositions whether you recognize or acknowledge it or not.

The whole composition via the affection of each individual part with all of the other individual parts is what determines that the result is more than the sum of it’s parts.

What affects do you experience in the residential interior spaces you occupy?

How does such engage you?

Food for thought.

“Subordinate or supplementary objects used mainly for attractiveness” Webster

For well designed residential interior spaces accessories are those things which add to and complete the aesthetics of the spaces.

It is also where more personal and sentimental objects can be added for completing the mood of those spaces.

Just as adding various seasoning to certain foods enhances the taste and enjoyment of eating them selecting the most appropriate accessories for a residential interior design composition completes the aesthetics and enhances the ambiance and joy of experiencing those living spaces.

When the accessories are in and of themselves works of art the aesthetic level bar is raised even higher.

It is a wise choice for those residential spaces where non-family members will be not to let emotions and sentiment run amuck when choosing accessories for those spaces.

For the highest quality level of aesthetic and intellectual results there should be a “raison de etre” of high merit for all accessories used for residential interior spaces and not just bric-a-brae or stuff just to fill in those spaces.

When you look around where you live what accessories do you see and what reactions do you have to them?

Whether consciously or sub-consciously how people react to their environments affects their behavior.

Food for thought.

A recent discussion came across my desk about how long Christmas decorations should stay up after the holidays?

One of the top financial billionaires on this planet stated that it is not the cost of purchases but the value received there of which is of merit.

Both of these approaches can be applied to residential interior design situations.

When considering and planning the design of a residential interior project consider the results desired, the level of quality, and the life time there of.

Where do you want to go and how long do you want to stay there?

What aspects will be for shorter periods and what aspects will be used and retained for decades or for your life time?

Do you want exclusively the time less classics or do you want to experience the changes brought about from current and future discoveries and advances of current residential interior designs?

What changes will take place in your life styles as you advance through your decades of living?

What is going to be the best over all and long term value for your expenditures using the laws of physics and principles of aesthetics for your residential living spaces while on this planet?

Keep in mind during this process the tangible and intangible aspects of your own unique personality.

Think, create, schedule, evaluate, execute, and enjoy.

Food for thought.

Recently, from different sources, opposing viewpoints on the uses of existing residential fireplaces have become more prominent.

Existing fireplaces should be used because they are there, that’s their purpose, and their being used is more authentic and aesthetic where as closing them off is dead spacing them and destroying their use, reality, and authenticity.

Proponents delight in the ambiance of real wood with it”s smells, sounds, and lighting.

Opponents point out the lacks of providing actual heat, the negatives of cleaning and disposing ashes, and the challenges of obtaining, bringing in, and the storage of fire wood.

Fireplaces are definitely a part of the architectural background in spaces where they are used and such has to be considered is the designing of such spaces.

There are many factors to be considered here, as well as in all intelligent residential interior design situations, for choosing.

As grandma said, “there is more than one way to cook chicken”, and there is rarely, if ever, a situation where there is only one design solution.

The major factor to be considered is what is the ultimate design completed goal of the spaces and who makes that decision?

Other factors can be evaluated according to their contribution to the whole of the design composition.

This principle can be used in any residential interior design situation, as well as for many other aspects in life, in making intelligent and quality decisions.

Food for thought.

To achieve the desired results of the whole it is necessary to select elements with the chemical characteristics which will react as needed with each of the other chosen elements individually and all together thusly contributing to the manifestation of the whole wanted results.

This principle is required for the highest level of achievement for any composition whether it be tangibles such as cooking, writing, creating art, physical manner or intangible such as mental, emotional, or psychological expressions.

Many of the residential interior designed spaces from international sources which have come across my desk in recent months have failed to apply this principle which has produced not the highest level of aesthetic results.

With the expendable resources available in these situations not applying this principle shows a lack whether of knowledge, interest, or integrity.

Many of these published examples go to great lengths to list manufacturer, model, color, source, history, brand, et cetera, which is excellent if such is their ultimate goal.

However, this information for the selection of these elements does not in and of itself make the choosing of these elements the best choices for the highest level of the designed space aesthetics.

Is not how it taste the primary goal for what you choose to eat?

Is it then not of merit for how it looks aesthetically to be a primary goal for choosing the elements of the interior spaces in which you live and move and have your being?

Choose your elements carefully, thoroughly, and intelligently.

Food for thought.

To be successful it is necessary for all aspects of a designed residential interior space to blend together.

An important part of that blending success is acknowledging that when it comes to physical comfort people came in many different sizes, shapes, preferences, and cultures.

One size does not fit all.

What is comfortable is an individual choice.

The physical characteristics of persons who will primarily be using the space can be a beginning point.

Some choices of furniture, such as dining room chairs, can be used comfortably by a physical variety of persons.

When the function, aesthetics, comfort, and desired goal of ambiance all come together as one complete whole, an achieved endeavor results.

Food for thought.

In less than two calendar days we begin a new calendar year.

Taking a look at the past year, it’s goals, accomplishments, growth, progress, mistakes, et ceters is a procedure used by many as a mile stone and a factor for planning and setting the flavor and goals for the coming new year.

Utilizing this same approach toward your residential interior living environment is a wise step toward a more complete and quality personal lifestyle.

Are you happy, content, comfortable, and at home where you have been living for the past twelve months?

Does your residential interior environment fulfill all of your functional needs well?

Is there something that needs to be added, replaced, repaired, improved, et cetera?

Take an objective observation all around and evaluate what you see.

Plot, plan, budget, and proceed accordingly to your desired goal results.

What you think and the execution there of will determine what is manifest in your life.

How do you want to live?

Go for it!

Food for thought.

Christmas decorations have made their way into public view for many weeks before the actual holiday.

It is the one time of the year when there are no restrictions on personal expressions for one’s home environment.

It is also the time of the year when the principles of aesthetics seem to be disappeared.

Even some persons in design businesses seem to have lost their way.

Anything goes.

And many times it goes badly.

Of course the ultimate result for these expressions is joy.

But let us not forget that intelligence, and the quality there of, also plays a role.

If the resources expended to holiday foods were also used for residential holiday decorations, the results would be greatly enhanced.

People choose to express themselves at their where they are level especially when emotional expression is dominate.

By all means, be your self and let us not overly judge expressions of joy.

In the world of which we now live any and every joy should be embraced and appreciated.

Food for thought.

Tis the time of year when the world goes over board with decorations.

Businesses, residences, and spaces every where are decorated with good cheer and a joyous mood is expressed with individual manifestations of different beliefs, traditions, and life styles.

Most people are of the position that such makes them feel good and it’s a good thing.

What about decorations affecting our emotions for the rest of the year?

Are you aware of how the design and decoration of our interior spaces, as well as the outside spaces of architecture and landscaping, affect our emotion and psychological and physical senses of being?

What would happen to people everywhere if for the rest of the year we exerted as much to our interior environmental ambiance as was done during this holiday season?

Positive environments give us comfort and incitement.

Numerous studies have shown that our interior environments affects our tangible and intangible behaviors.

The laws of physics and the principles of design manifest the results of how they are used.

Be of good cheer enjoying and appreciating your own state of being during this holiday season thinking of how such can be your overall life in the times to come.

Food for thought.

A top executive at one of the world’s best known multi-billion dollars international companies once fulfilled her need to inform me of the residential interior design profession.

Residential interior designers have a single specialty or niche for their talents and there is where they stay.

They are limited in their imagination and creativity.

They do not have the where with all to express design above and beyond where they are.

These positions were stated to me with the utmost confidence, poise, and strength that superior economic and social status can make.

Most of us are familiar with what comes out of the rear end of a male cow.

With talent, creativity, knowledge, experience, education, and imagination there is literally no limit as to where residential interior designers, as well as many other professions, can creatively go.

Observing human behavior in it’s natural environment over the years has manifest many situations where the bright light of arrogance blinds people to the reality of what is outside and beyond their occupied space and of what they are unaware and are missing in their lives.

Take off your blinders and open yourself up to the magnificence life has to experience.

While having your daily being in the spaces where you live what do you see, feel, and experience ?

Food for thought.