Webster defines taste as individual preference in the choices we make and as we are using the word here it refers to what we choose for the interior of our residential spaces.

Every one has taste whether it be what is considered good or bad or anything in between.

Have you ever given any thought from where your taste comes?

The results of the evolution of the human race up to our present time is in all of us and has a role in our choices.

For example: People gravitate toward fireplaces when there is no need of them for heating. People like to have light and a connection with nature and the outside. Et Cetera.

Our individual tastes beyond this area are determined largely by our upbringing especially during the developing years to adulthood.

These tastes experienced thusly stay with us through our life time.

To those people who become educated, travel, and reach higher and different socio-economic levels from these formative years will find these tastes affecting our residential choices, knowingly or unknowingly, even when we try to manifest another environment.

All of which is neither good or bad in and of itself.

What determines the quality of what we choose is determined by how we express it.

For interior residential spaces which are appropriate and functional for their location and time and working intelligently with quality standards using the laws of physics and the principles of design the results will be good regardless of your personal tastes.

Although it is not as prevalent in today’s culture as in past times, the concept of “good taste” generally refers to those standards set by the higher classes in societies which can contain certain elements of snobbery and social status which in and of themselves are not necessarily good design.

Food for thought.

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