The most important aspect of the human experience is light without which our species would cease to exist.

This same aspect of light is the most important for the aesthetics of a residential environment.

The second most important aspect necessary for the aesthetics of a residential interior is proportion.

Proportions for residential interior designs are the sizes of things in relation to other things including all that is the space from the rooms individually and their relationship to each other to every thing in the rooms from the largest to the smallest of things used.

Most of us are capable and very aware of sizes in clothing. It is easy to see when articles of clothing are too big or too small or too short or too long for the person wearing them to which we generally react instantly and correct.

Many people are not as sensitive to this situation when viewing residential interior designs or as quick to correct unless the proportions are greatly exaggerated according to their knowledge, standards, customs, culture, et cetera.

It is a universal truth that the laws of physics and the principles of aesthetics apply to all physical manifestations regardless of period of history, culture, status, finances, politics, or any thing else.

Which, of course, makes it applicable to residential interior environments.

The observation, appreciation, and study of beauty in all of it’s manifestations, natural and man made, is the best way to learn, become aware, and apply sensitivity to proportions in aesthetics.

Food for thought.