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.

There is a current movement going on in choices of designer clothes where by shouters wear a large designer name or excessive current fashions for all the word to see while whisperers wear subtle fashions of quite designer quality materials and workmanship.

This same principle can, and has for a long time, be seen in how people manifest both the exteriors and interiors of their residences.

“Show the world what you’ve got” is the goal of shouters who choose big and complex facades and interiors, most often based on past period styles, while ignoring the principles of excellent design. “The most and more costly the better.” Marble and gold are the biggest culprits here.

I have often thought that if you really want to show the world what you’ve got, simply put a large easily readable sign of your financial worth in front of your residence.

The whispers considers the sizes, locations, functions, and current times using the principles of design as a goal for their residences and thusly manifest excellent results.

Whisperers are confident and comfortable and composed underneath it all in their residential manifestations where as shouters are not.

When it comes down to the nitty gritty bottom line of excellence for residential design, quality always surpasses quantity.

Where are you in this range of residential expressions for your personal living?

Food for thought.

Recent studies show an increase in brain stress when participants viewed unattractive buildings.

These studies include designing and construction, residential and commercial, behaviorist, brain scientists, artists, et ceter so that all aspects of the situation are considered in the whole.

Results show people have a negative reaction, usually unconsciously so that one is unaware of the situation, to buildings, interior and exterior, that do not manifest pleasure and beauty.

And that this negative reaction affects our outward behavior in an undesirable negative manner.

How does this stress affect the functional success of buildings?

What is the priority level of pleasure and beauty considered for buildings over all other levels?

In a perfect world, all aspects of life would be realized and complete.

Awareness of this stress in our behavior from unattractive and pleasurable buildings is the first step toward rectifying it.

Is it not of merit to make all efforts possible to achieve desirable results at the highest level?

The fast pace and quick results sought in today’s world of cell phones and computers does not erase the fact that underneath it all we are human beings.

Food for thought.

Several rules by certain interior designers and books on the subject have come across my desk recently and also have come from many other people in different walks of life during my life experiences on this planet.

Rules of interior design are usually made by those people and for those people who are ignorant of the subject.

What some people put forward as rules are only their own personal approach to a design situation.

These positions have come up all the way from the construction of buildings to needle point colors.

Grand Ma said there are many ways to cook chicken.

IF you know what you are doing when it comes to the aesthetics of designing there are no valid rules: only principles of aesthetics and laws of physics.

What results do you want to achieve, where do you want to go, and what is the best way to get there aesthetically should pilot your expenditure of resources and not what other people see as their interpretation.

Yet, some people cling religiously and intellectually to their position as cut in stone for evaluating designs.

Life is made up of people from all different backgrounds, educations, social-economic levels, intellects, and experiences which determine and reflect our personality traits.

All wholes are made of different parts at some level but are complete.

Where do you stand in your approach to aesthetics?

Food for thought.

What’s “in and out” and what “interior designers” are doing continually come across my desk.

Who are these sources and who are they trying to reach and for what purpose?

Changes in life styles, of which the pandemic was a big one, and our culture, new products and discoveries, increasing role of smart devices, climate changes, intellectual growth and discovery, et cetera are all factors which should determine affects on our residential interior environment.

Fashion should not be a major factor for residential interior spaces.

The personal space in which we live is different from cosmetics and what we choose to wear during the different seasons of the year.

The highest level of quality design, which manifest the time, place, and function of it’s culture, is always good design.

The over emphasis and use of trends, what’s in and out, and what “interior designers” pontificate are usually for the short term and are at best a temporary expression and easily becomes dated.

Newness, in and of itself, does not determine the level of quality.

Is that which is new of long term or temporary change?

Periodic shows, advertisements, and changes are part and parcel of marketing and businesses into today’s world. Take it all with a grain of salt, a spoonful of sugar, and think quality for the long term. Is it a cry, or need, for attention?

There are those people who choose to follow these options. When evaluating such, always ask why.

Food for thought.