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