Dear friends, we as humans are a composite of mind, body and spirit. All these three in proper coordination, create the world around us. The things, which we want in life, are first created in our mind, then our mind sends signals to our brain and the brain sends signals to various parts of our body to take action and thus "reality" gets created.
This means that whatever we imagine in our minds gets converted in reality. The program of our mind decides what we imagine. I mean if I want to decorate my bedroom, everything from the type of furniture I choose to the budget decision will depend upon my "broader attitude" towards life.
If I am a "budget conscious" person, then this will affect right from the initial stages of the design. I will look at the design from a conservative point of view. Thus everything, which gets created in reality will have an influence of my personality.
Here I am not trying to say that only high budget designs are good. I have seen works of many interior designers, who have spent their entire lives on studying low cost design projects and also have won awards for their magnificent work.
That's why any interior design project can not be fulfilled without active participation of the client or the user. Creativity doesn't have any boundaries of budget. Any piece of art which fulfils the functional need and also the aesthetical need can be easily accepted as an architectural element. Budget is not a constraint at all. On the other hand the budget constraint sometimes is useful to generate some good ideas for a particular problem.
An interior designer is not an artist, because an artist basically performs his acts to satisfy his own desire. This could be any performing art or other forms of arts. His piece of work may not have any functional use from user's point of view.
An interior designer is not even a technician or engineer. Because when an engineer builds a design he need not worry of making it "beautiful". His primary aim is to make it functional. He puts his entire energy in making the design functional.
That's why an interior designer is one who satisfies both the functional as well as aesthetical part of the design. Sometimes it is easy to accomplish the functional part of an interior design, but since the definition of beauty is different for everyone, it is extremely difficult to satisfy each and every user's aesthetic hunger.
This is particularly true about interiors in public spaces. For example a bank building has a definite use and function for all the users. We can safely create a list of functions a person would perform when he visits a bank. But this does not mean the bank reflects his personality, like the first paragraph of this article mentions.
That's why interiors in public spaces always are designed by taking into consideration something called as "mass personality". This is a general attitude of the kind of mindset everyone would have or is likely to have when he/she visits that space. If you visit large corporate software office premise, you will see this picture.
Office interiors always have a certain kind of order in them. The use of colors, design styles have a kind of commitment in them, which is expected from you when you work there.
On the other hand a bar or a restaurant has some sort of mood generating atmosphere, which sets you loose. Because this is what is expected in a public space like a restaurant.
Thus any interior space is always associated with people. A space which serves its functions best and makes the users comfortable is bound to succeed as a favorite place.
I hope this article was informative to everyone.
Copyright Shrinivas Vaidya
The moment you start adding some furniture, the space starts to attract a face on itself. Depending upon the volume of the objects being put, the space gets altered in a dynamic fashion.
A typical home consists of a living room, bed room(s), kitchen, toilet blocks, family room, study room etc.. All these spaces have their own specific function from the user's point of view.
When these spaces get furnished the previous identity of an empty space get blocked by the objects being placed. The face of the furniture object, is the new face of the room. Whenever you enter these rooms, you see the new face first, since the furniture occupies quite a bit of floor and wall space.
Any habitual space also has one more important aspect attached to it. Every habitual space always has windows as a necessary functional arrangement. Depending upon the function of the room the space can have doors as well.
These openings in walls create a kind of attachment of the interior space with outside natural world. This is a very powerful aspect in any design project. If the outside flora and fauna is densely populated with natural elements such as trees, water, mountains, this reflects clearly and directly on the choice of furniture the designer would make in the inside spaces.
If the home is located in a crowd urban cityscape, the choice of design theme would be different. The choice of furniture is directly related to comfort level of every individual. Selecting furniture which goes with the entire theme as well as satisfies the person on the comfort scale can change the way the room feels.
So the personality of an interior space is largely dependant on what's happening outside the space, rather than the space itself. The outside events such a presence of seashore, flowing river, mountain ranges, snow falls, or even a highway full of traffic can greatly alter the furnishing.
For example if your home is just next to a busy street, you might want to use cane curtains on windows which would cut-off all the noise easily. So the use of curtains has altered the face of the room to some extent and thus forces the designer to make appropriate choices for other objects in the room, which would easily merge with the texture, color, finish of the cane curtains.
On the other hand if your home is on a sea shore, you might go in for curtains which block the heavy wind, but don't block the beautiful view. Here again the room would have a different face and the entire theme makes a shift on itself.
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