People, as adults, go through various stages in their requirements for the sizes of their residential environments.

These different phases may be affected by economics, current requirements, the market, availability, age, or personal life styles. All of which will probably change many times over the years in one’s life.

Currently, there are movements in the market for smaller residences for those in the market for their first home purchase, to provide more available housing for spaces available, especially in urban situations, and for some older home owners who find themselves in the “empty nest” phase of their lives.

One hundred and eighty degrees from these people are those who desire larger residential spaces. Perhaps because of more children, more than one generation living in the same residential spaces, or because they want to move into more convenient, functional, or spacious environments.

For all sizes of residential spaces, the principles of aesthetics, functional requirements, and the laws of physics still apply.

The most important aesthetic consideration in sizing for all residential environments, regardless how large or small, is proportions. The furnishings of a residential environment should be proportionally designed and manifest for the spaces in which they are used.

How excellent are the proportions in your living environment?

In these changes, as always, the quality of manifestations should be as high as possible.

Food for thought.