DESIGN INSIGHT: Inspiring Individualism
They say you cannot judge a book by its cover or a person on the street by the way they dress and carry themselves.
A refined, intellectual mind may not care for finesse in personal attire and fine clothes certainly do not make a gentleman or a lady as we found out in Julia Robert’s Pretty Woman. But you can always tell something about a person by the way they choose to live and arrange their personal space.
You can tell a pretentious person by their lavish, chosen-for-show, must-haves in their homes -they try too hard to please others rather than pleasing their own senses and tastes.
A pragmatic, no nonsense person will have the essentials to live and nothing else.
A fanciful person will have things that need a fanciful mind to comprehend.
A book lover will have books spilling out everywhere, used as doorstops and make-shift tables.
An art lover will have art on their walls and then the subject of their choice of art is another giveaway.
There is always something that gives you a glimpseof a person’s personality as soon as you step inside their personal space.
But all these wonderfully narrative signs are sadly stripped away as soon as someone (not trusting their own judgment) hires an interior…